Southeast Michigan Retail: Motor City Retail History

This post will look at retail in Woodhaven, Wayne County, MI. Target #923 23555 Allen Road, Woodhaven, MI Driving distance and time from downtown Detroit: 21.3 miles, approx. 26 minutes We return to retail-retail posts on SMR today for a visit to....our third Target to be featured on this blog? You're absolutely right! Located right at one of suburban Wayne County's busiest intersections, the store opened on October 5, 1994 along with three other Target stores in Michigan, which were stores in Brighton, Chesterfield and Mount Pleasant. As this post focuses on the Woodhaven store, it originally was smaller in size and sported this decor (known variously as P90 or P93) inside. A 2005 expansion gave this store the P04 decor and exterior design while adding a pharmacy, a Starbucks and a Pizza Hut Express. Since then, it has been further remodeled twice: a PFresh remodel around 2012ish (while preserving P04), followed by a full-on remodel in October 2019 to P17 d...

This post will look at retail in Southgate, Wayne County, MI. Previously on Southeast Michigan Retail, we visited a red-roof Pizza Hut that was still in business . If you want the detailed history of said store, visit the linked prequel blog post. Two years after that visit, SMR finally shows you the current condition of this store, now closed. With the reopening of a lot more of the state of Michigan occurring since I first wrote the previous post, it has become the assumption that there will be no official replacement for this store, and that a delivery/carryout location in Woodhaven has become the de-facto replacement. Red-roof Pizza Huts in Lincoln Park and Clawson, both also owned by Redberry Restaurant Brands (who seems to be the franchise for virtually every Pizza Hut in Metro Detroit) have also been shuttered during the pandemic. And now let's get to the picture part. Both of these photos were taken a little over two months after the store's permanent closu...