Southeast Michigan Retail: Motor City Retail History

This post will look at retail in Livonia, Wayne County, MI.   Target #2230 29451 Plymouth Road, Livonia, MI Driving distance and time from downtown Detroit: 18.9 miles, approx. 20 minutes   This Target store, midway between Detroit and Ann Arbor and one of two Target stores in the northwestern Wayne County suburb of Livonia, and the fourth we've covered on this blog, opened on July 25, 2007, as part of the demalling of Wonderland Mall into the power center known as Wonderland Village, replacing store T-352 (which would have been located on the other side of the adjacent Walmart Supercenter #2631 building), which opened on October 4, 1989 as a Wonderland Mall anchor and had survived the demolition of the rest of the mall.   Original plans called for this store to have been the first SuperTarget supercenter in the state of Michigan. A standard Target store ended up being built instead.   This store has only received two minor renovations in it's 13-year existence:...

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...