Memorial Mall is a former indoor shopping center located in Sheboygan, Wisconsin that is currently being redeveloped into a new form for tethered by the new Meijer hypermarket. Opened in 1969, Kohl's current feature, along with Bed Bath & amp; Outside and four other small shops.
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History
Initial history
Originally Melvin Simon & amp; Partner (now Simon Property Group), the foundation for the first and only malls in Sheboygan County was laid in August 1968 with the construction of its first store, 160,000 square feet, two floors of JC Penney with a car center as an outgoing package; when J.C. Penney left the car center business, it became the Complete Firestone Automatic Maintenance Center (Goodyear Car Center has also been part of the mall since it opened, though moved to the western end of the building in the mid-2000s). Another anchor is G. C. Murphy's outlet, along with Red Owl supermarket.
Both Sears and J.C. Penney moved from their downtown stores, though the local large department store based in H.C. Prange refused to leave their downtown location, or even build a branch shop at the Memorial Mall. Until January 2014 closure as the Boston Store, Prange's and its pioneers remain in the city center in the same location.
Although the Memorial Mall will hold its official opening in April 1970 with over 35 stores, restaurants and services, the third and final anchor bordering the north end, the 80,000-square-foot Sears with the attached Automotive Center will not open until November 1970, completing 350,000 sq. ft complex. Until the opening of the Fond Du Lac Forest Mall in 1973, it was the largest covered shopping center in east-central Wisconsin. After Murphy's closure, Kohl took over the room in 1983; the building was renovated in the mid-2000s to fulfill the current Kohl shop concept.
Although this mall held their official address on Kohler Memorial Drive (WI 23), in the late 70s it lost its direct connection to the road because it was converted into a highway to exchange with Interstate 43 to the west. This will affect the mall's decline in the future, as easy access from busy Kohler Memorial Drive has been removed, forcing traffic to the surrounding streets. These include Taylor Drive, which in 1985 the southern extension, along with the relocation of WI 28 from Indiana Avenue (which is next to the Sheboygan River, has little development opportunities around the wetlands) to Washington Avenue (with lots of vacant lot), into large retail corridors new in the city and allowing retail competition to the south where previously only swamplands, forests and agricultural fields had existed.
Reconfiguration and subsequent struggle
In 2001, J.C. Penney leaves the mall, with Hobby Lobby taking over the first floor space and removing the existing building escalator. In 2003, Simon Property Group sold the Memorial Mall and the new owner renovated the mall building. Walgreens left their old location at the mall in 2001 at the opening of their new downtown store at the intersection of WI 23/28/42. Former Goodyear room after moving to the Red Owl room (used by Hobbytown USA for several years) was given to Bed, Bath & amp; Outside to the shop which is outside sharing the entrance of the mall, it does not have an indoor entrance inside the mall itself. Outside the period of several months in which the Famous Brand off-price discount retailer fills the space, Walgreens space is never filled out beyond use by the organization for charity events. Many of the small inhabitants in the mall left the mall when Deer Race Kohler's power station opened in 2005. The mall's central court was eventually converted into a children's play area to provide some of the utility that was once a large public space with food choices.
In 2012, Memorial Mall is sold by foreclosure auction. Bank of America, the lender to the mall, bought the property at a sheriff's auction for about $ 2.1 million. Prior to the auction, the mall was owned by a group of 17 limited companies based in New York and has been seized since 2009, after the fall in rental rates and the lack of new tenants leaving the owners as much more than the property than what it is worth.
In February 2014, RadioShack closed his shop after almost thirty years in the mall. Sears Holdings announced the closing of the Memorial Mall store and confirmed the closing of Sears Auto earlier that year; Sears will create a Sears Appliance and Hardware Store franchise to take its place, located on the south side of the city in the Washington Square shopping mall (mall stores have wiped white clothing and items removed in 2012 to focus on equipment, electronics and hardware). 30 employees lost their positions, with stores closed in early February 2015. In January 2015, the mall's general manager confirmed that three stores announced their intention to leave the mall; Amy's Hallmark, Revolution (extreme sports store consolidated to their location in downtown Sheboygan), and Deb Shop (which has been liquidated nationwide).
Meijer moves in; future redevelopment
On March 17, 2015, Siegel Gallagher, Inc. representing NRFC Memorial Holdings, LLC on the sale of Memorial Mall to Michigan-based hypermarket retailer Meijer for $ 10.75 million. Sales include the acquisition of adjacent Sears stores. Meijer has been busy with its store location expansion in Wisconsin, with stores opened in southeastern Wisconsin since 2015. The company plans to spend time in the minimee mall in 2017, opening their new store in 2019 after flattening and reconstruction, with Kohl's and Bed , Bath and Beyond maintains the existing buildings and indoor entrances to the malls either sealed or converted into exterior entrances. Powers Goodyear will remain in its present form. The four existing stores left on the front page of Kohl will be retained in the construction of the new Meijer, while Firestone will move into a new building on the south side of the city near the Washington Square shopping center.
In the last days, the mall occupancy rate reached 13% (6 of the 48 store rooms), with the northern end of "Sears" completely empty in space laid out for seventeen store rooms. With the closure of Diamond Dave's Taco Company Mexican restaurant in May 2016, the mall no longer has a choice of food. Hobby Lobby ended operations after Christmas 2016 and vacated on January 14, 2017 with no new locations announced, while the former Book World Bookstore next to Sears soon followed by moving to nearby Taylor Heights (the parent company went bankrupt only eleven months later). Bath and Body Works closed in April 2017, along with an arcade game room. GNC closed before the end of July 2017.
At the close of business on July 30, 2017, the Memorial Mall effectively ceased to exist as a traditional mall, as preparation for the preliminary destruction and subsequent asbestos reduction began the day (the central court and the northern tip were destroyed on October 11, with former Penney Buildings collapsing shortly thereafter and mostly destruction completed in mid-December). The front page of Kohl will remain open during construction, along with all the existing stores when the Meijer construction is built on the former north end of the mall and anchoring rooms, with new walls and entrances built at the end of the section maintained from the building. Independent change stores, and Shabree Jewelers who retain their dwelling will also remain in the mall and as part of the new development; Claire closes after the holiday season after her contract expires.
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References
External links
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