The Frandor Shopping Center, Michigan’s second oldest mall located on the border of Lansing and East Lansing, opened 68 years ago on this day in 1954. To draw in crowds, advertisers promised shoppers, “The greatest shopping thrill in years!”. The name...
Sean Valentino is either a lucky guy or a talented mall director. If the continued growth of the Green Oak Village Place shopping mall is any indication, he is definitely a talented mall director. The outdoor shopping mall he has directed for the past two years is...
LANSING – The newest pizza chain coming to Lansing can have an 11-inch pie ready in three minutes, thanks to an 800-degree oven. Blaze Pizza is slated to open in the Frandor Shopping Center by the end of June in the former site of Video To Go. “It’s like the Chipotle...
Gregory Boat Co. and Gregory Marina, family-owned Detroit companies that hail back to 1906, have been sold to Bloomfield Hills-based development firm Lormax Stern. With the purchase, the companies’ names will change. Gregory Boat Co., on East Jefferson Avenue across...
The original Macomb Mall tower sign on a Gratiot corner may remind Metro Detroit of the 1960s and the suburban shopping center construction that pulled generations of consumers from traditional downtowns into single buildings anchored by Sears, Crowley and SS Kresge....
A more than $2 million investment is planned at the Green Oak Village Place retail center in Brighton to prepare space for T.J. Maxx as a new anchor tenant. Redico LLC and Lormax Stern Development, owners of Green Oak Village Place, plan a 7,000-square-foot expansion...
