Warren, Michigan, Detroit’s largest suburb by population, is located directly north of the city of Detroit in Macomb County. As a result of the post-war industrial boom, Warren grew explosively from World War II into the 1970s, while the manufacturing industry around Detroit reached its peak. People moved en masse from the city to these inner-core suburbs [...]
In the suburbs of the Motor City, the mall reigns supreme. So much so, in fact, that the retail hubs in the Detroit area are located completely within the suburban realm. There are no major retail draws in the city of Detroit today, which isn’t surprising because Detroit is largely a vastly depressing urban wasteland. Though urban revival attempts continue, [...]
When Prangeway and I were taking a lot of road trips in 1998 and 1999, I was always trying to convince him (him being the, um, the one who owned a car) to go to the other malls in a lot of the random midwestern cities we visited. It seems that each time we tried, [...]
Sometimes instead of being redeveloped into strip malls and “Lifestyle Centers”, enclosed malls are simply forgotten, passed over like so much fruit cake in December. The reasons for this are varied, but mostly have to do with the fact that the area the mall lies in is no longer viable for retail, or at least [...]
Dear readers, I’m back from my extended weekend in the Detroit area. Why Detroit, you ask? Well, the area has always fascinated me beyond belief. The way the entire city is this fallow wasteland, seeming as though it is sleeping, like some sort of urban garden that hasn’t been watered in a while. Juxtapose that [...]
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