Eastland Center in Harper Woods, Michigan, opened in 1957 as a Hudson’s-anchored retail complex designed by Victor Gruen Associates. It started as an open-air center.
The mall was enclosed in the mid-1970s and, in the 1980s, it added new anchors, a food court, and a cinema. During the next twenty years, stores opened and closed, and the mall made periodic renovations that slightly altered the layout.
Ownership changed hands more than once. Kohan Retail Investment Group bought it in 2018, then sold it three years later to NorthPoint Development, which planned to clear out the remaining retail space and turn the property into industrial facilities…