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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.
The developer of Northland City Center plans to soon open 2 new 100-unit apartment buildings at the site, 1 of 3 old mall sites being redeveloped. Old Hudson's building is all that says 1970s ...
The Northland Center, as it was known, was first devised in 1948 as a way to capitalize on the The first modern shopping mall in the United States opened its doors to the public on Mar. 22, 1954.
That year, the Hudson's department store chain and architect Victor Gruen developed Northland Center in the Detroit suburb of Southfield. [1] It was followed by three other directional malls in Detroit suburbs, also developed by Hudson's and Gruen: Eastland Center in Harper Woods, Westland Center in Westland and Southland Center in Taylor.
The shopping center would have been Michigan's first shopping center constructed on 8 Mile and Kelly Road but the idea was scrapped. The mall was developed in 1957 by Hudson's, a Detroit-based department store chain (and corporate predecessor of Target Corp) that also developed Northland Center, another Detroit area mall.
Three security guards are facing trial this week in the death of a man who was pinned to the ground during a fierce struggle more than 10 years ago at a suburban Detroit shopping mall. McKenzie ...
McKenzie Cochran, who had an enlarged heart, repeatedly said, “I can’t breathe,” while five guards restrained him at Northland Center, following a trouble call to security by a mall tenant, witnesses said. The struggle was recorded on dark, grainy mall video, as well as by onlookers.
McKenzie Cochran, 25, repeatedly told guards, “I can’t breathe,” while he was being restrained during a fierce struggle at Northland Center in 2014, witnesses said. The Oakland County prosecutor at the time declined to file charges after consulting with the U.S. Justice Department.