Movies to Computers: Micro Center #55, Madison Heights, Michigan
This post will look at retail in Madison Heights, Oakland County, MI. Micro Center #55 32800 Concord Drive, Madison Heights, MI Driving distance and time from downtown Detroit: 16.2 miles, approx. 20 minutes Tucked across from Oakland Mall adjacent to Interstate 75 is Michigan's only Micro Center computer store, but that isn't what this building started out as, as you'll find out next. AMC Abbey 8 Theatres following its May 2001 closure. (credit: Water Winter Wonderland ) The building originally opened on December 22, 1972 as the Abbey Theatres 1-2-3, owned at the time by Suburban Detroit Theatres. From 1979 to 2000, the Abbey competed with the nearby United Artists Movies at Oakland Mall theater within Oakland Mall itself. Suburban Detroit was eventually sold to AMC Theatres in 1986, and five additional screens were added to the complex, opening on December 15, 1989...the very same day a new Star (now AMC!) Theatre opened just one block away from the now-named AMC Abbe...