Southeast Michigan Retail: Motor City Retail History

This post will look at retail in Madison Heights, Oakland County; Shelby Charter Township, Macomb County; and Taylor, Wayne County, MI. Another short blog post kicks off the month of November here at SMR with some great Southeast Michigan retail news - the entry of two chains into the Great Lakes State. Photo courtesy Crain's Detroit Business Hudson's Budget Store #???? / EJ Korvette #???? / (Super) Kmart #3575 / BJ's Wholesale Club #383 29101 John R. Road, Madison Heights, MI Driving distance and time from downtown Detroit: 14.5 miles, approx. 16 minutes One of these chains is BJ's Wholesale Club, which on November 2nd (yesterday as of the creation of this blog post) opened it's first Michigan foray at the site of former (Super) Kmart #3575 at John R. and 12 Mile Roads in Madison Heights. Through Google Maps photos , it seems that this location is already really popular! Sorry, this was the best I could do. BJ's Wholesale Club #384 ...

This post will look at retail in Roseville, Macomb County; Novi, Oakland County; and Auburn Hills, Oakland County, MI...and then some. UPDATE: I am pleased to report that this blog post was the first place on the internet to report on the closings from a Southeast Michigan take, before even WDIV Local 4 reported on it. 10/30/2019 UPDATE: The Macomb Mall, Twelve Oaks Mall and Great Lakes Crossing Outlets locations won't be closing at all...though two previously-unannounced locations will now close instead. Scroll to the bottom for more info. For this short blog post, we will announce some rather unfortunate Southeast Michigan retail news. On September 29, 2019, fashion retailer Forever 21 filed for bankruptcy protection , becoming the latest major retail chain to fall victim to the retail apocalypse. At the time, it operated 800 stores worldwide, including 15 in Michigan. Today, Forever 21 released a list of the 178 stores that it plans on closing the doors to for...