Southeast Michigan Retail: Motor City Retail History

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...

This post will look at retail in Southgate, Wayne County, MI. This is the first time we've featured a restaurant on Southeast Michigan Retail. We'll appropriately start off our restaurant posts with a dying breed which is ever inching closer to extinction, and the latest local fatality from this movement.  Former Pizza Hut #26284/#407034 14550 Fort Street, Southgate, MI Driving distance and time from downtown Detroit: 15.4 miles, approx. 20 minutes This Pizza Hut opened in 1976, built in the chain's all-too-familiar red roof design, or if you want more technical stuff, built in the Series 35 prototype of the red roof design. Now do note that all photos in this post were taken in the summer of 2018, I just wanted to point that out since, as you'll read below, you won't be able to get any pizza from this address, as it has, of course, fallen victim to Pizza Hut's aggressive shutdowns of their dine-in red roof locations in favor of delivery/c...