Inside Lakeside Mall in Sterling Heights, MI: the slow collapse nobody stopped in time

Lakeside Mall opens on Hall Road in 1976

Hall Road was already filling in as a retail corridor when more than 100 acres at M-59 and Schoenherr were cleared for a new enclosed mall, setting a big indoor project into the strip in Sterling Heights.

Sterling Heights was incorporated in 1968 and still lacked a central gathering place for the city. Lakeside Mall was built to fill that role, two stories inside, sized to draw shoppers from across the area.

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