Northland Center

Northland Center

Northland Center in March 2015
Location	Southfield, Michigan, United States
Coordinates	42°27′4.2″N 83°12′16.8″W / 42.451167°N 83.204667°W / 42.451167; -83.204667
Opening date	March 22, 1954
Closing date	April 15, 2015
Developer	J.L. Hudson Company
Management	Spinoso Real Estate Group (custody of mall during receivership)
Owner	Contour Companies
Architect	Victor Gruen
No. of stores and services	100
No. of anchor tenants	6 (0 open, 6 vacant)
Total retail floor area	1,449,719 sq ft (134,683.3 m2)
No. of floors	1 (2 in former JCPenney and former Ward's, 5 in former Macy's)
Parking	8,671

Northland Center was an enclosed shopping mall on an approximately 159-acre (64 ha) site located near the intersection of M-10 (the John C. Lodge Freeway) and Greenfield Road in Southfield, Michigan, an inner-ring suburb of Detroit, Michigan, United States. Construction began in 1952 and the mall opened on March 22, 1954. Northland was a milestone for regional shopping centers in the United States. Designed by Victor Gruen, the mall initially included a four-level Hudson's with a ring of stores surrounding it. As originally built, it was an open air pedestrian mall with arrayed structures. The mall was enclosed in 1975 and expanded several times in its history. Additions included five other department store anchors: J. C. Penney in 1975, MainStreet in 1985 (sold to Kohl's three years later), and TJ Maxx, Target, and Montgomery Ward in the 1990s. Managed by Spinoso Real Estate Group, Northland Center featured approximately 100 stores. Macy's, the last anchor, closed on March 22, 2015, exactly 61 years to the date of the mall's opening.^[1] The mall was demolished September 2021 with redevelopment taking place shortly after.^[2][3]