The west side of Greater Lansing has no other enclosed regional mall, no other single building where a cinema, a department store, an entertainment complex, and dozens of specialty shops share one climate-controlled roof within reach of major highways.
That building is Lansing Mall, at 5330 West Saginaw Highway in Delta Charter Township, opened in July 1969, and the first enclosed mall the Lansing area had ever seen.
Its trade area spans roughly 360,000 people drawn from Lansing, East Lansing, Grand Ledge, and surrounding communities along M-43 and the I-96, I-69, and US-127 corridors…