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Critics said the mall had too little parking nearby, exposed shoppers to bad weather, attracted crime, and held too few shops. In the mid-1990s, Project Downtown offered a 10-point plan to revitalize Kalamazoo's downtown area, including, most contentiously, a proposal to reopen to auto traffic the two blocks of the Mall south of W. Michigan.
Maple Hill Pavilion (formerly Maple Hill Mall) is a strip mall serving the city of Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. Maple Hill Mall became a "dead mall" after several years of decline and the loss of several major tenants. The center has since been redeveloped as a strip mall called Maple Hill Pavilion, which features DSW Shoe Warehouse ...
The name Kalamazoo, which sounds unusual to English speakers, has become a metonym for exotic places, as in the phrase "from Timbuktu to Kalamazoo". [12] Today, T-shirts are sold in Kalamazoo with the phrase "Yes, there really is a Kalamazoo". [13] For many years, this was even adopted as the city's main slogan. [citation needed]
Kalamazoo and nearby cities, taken from the ISS in 2012. Kalamazoo is in the lower center-left. At top are Holland (left) and Grand Rapids (center). In the lower part of the photo to the right of Kalamazoo are Battle Creek (just to the right of Kalamazoo) and Lansing. (far right bottom corner).
The Central Business District, or downtown Kalamazoo, is divided into six districts: Arcadia, Bronson Park, East End, Haymarket, Kalamazoo Mall, and South Town. Educational and cultural venues include the Kalamazoo Valley Museum, the central branch of the Kalamazoo Public Library, and the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. The city's nightlife is ...
M-343 starts where Gull Road intersects Riverview Drive east of the Kalamazoo River in Kalamazoo. [3] From there, the highway follows Gull Road northeasterly past Riverside Cemetery and Borgess Medical Center on the northeast side of Kalamazoo. M-343 passes a number of commercial properties as it exits Kalamazoo and enters farmland.
Kalamazoo: March 12, 1963: Michigan Central Depot† 459 North Burdick Street Kalamazoo: February 21, 1975: Michigan State Grange / Women In The Michigan Grange Commemorative Designation NW corner of Water and Burdick Street, Kalamazoo: August 26, 1999: Michigan Statesman and St. Joseph Chronicle Newspapers Informational Designation 401 South ...
WGVU-TV (channel 35) in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, and WGVK (channel 52) in Kalamazoo, Michigan, are PBS member television stations serving West Michigan.WGVU and WGVK are owned by Grand Valley State University and maintain studios in the Meijer Public Broadcast Center, located in the Eberhard Center on the GVSU Robert C. Pew Campus in downtown Grand Rapids.