From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Westwood Mall (Jackson, Michigan)
Westwood Mall (Jackson, Michigan)
Westwood Mall http://books.google.com/books?id=AIhMYqRD--
Location Jackson, Michigan EC&q=%22westwood+mall%22+%22jackson%22&dq=%22westwood
[3] "The Bottom Line". Dayton Daily News. June 20, 1993.
Address 1850 W. Michigan Ave.
http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/
Opening date 1972[1] Archives?p_product=DDNB&p_theme=ddnb&p_action=search&p_
Retrieved January 4, 2011.
Developer Forbes/Cohen
[4] Sinderman, Martin (February 1, 1998). "Retail
Management General Growth Properties Investment Forecast -- 1998". Retail Traffic.
No. of stores and 50+[1] http://retailtrafficmag.com/mag/
services retail_retail_investment_forecast/. Retrieved
January 4, 2011.
No. of anchor tenants 3
[5] Susan, Stock (April 18, 2003). "Wal-Mart plans new
Total retail floor area 510,000 square feet (47,000 m2) store at mall in Jackson". Lansing State Journal.
(GLA) http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/lansingstatejournal/
No. of floors 1 access/
1831928431.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=A
Westwood Mall is an enclosed shopping mall serving the Mart+plans+new+store+at+mall+in+Jackson&pqatl=google.
community of Jackson, Michigan. It opened in 1972 and Retrieved January 4, 2011.
features three anchor stores: J.C. Penney, Wal-Mart and [6] "Westwood Mall Welcomes Wal-Mart". Business
Elder-Beerman. It is managed by General Growth Proper- Wire. July 21, 2004. http://goliath.ecnext.com/
ties. coms2/gi_0199-512317/Westwood-Mall-Welcomes-
Wal-Mart.html. Retrieved January 4, 2011.
[7] Gautz, Chris (March 26, 2009). "Walmart trying to
History buy homes near Westwood Mall to build detention
The mall was built in 1972 with Wurzburg’s (later pond". Jackson Citizen Patriot.
Knapp’s, now J.C. Penney) and Montgomery Ward as its http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/
anchor stores.[2] Elder-Beerman was added as a third an- 2009/03/walmart_trying_to_buy_homes_ne.html.
chor in September 1993.[3] General Growth Properties ac- Retrieved January 4, 2011.
quired the mall from Forbes/Cohen in 1998, along with [8] "Gap store at Westwood Mall in Jackson closing on
nearby Lansing Mall and Lakeview Square.[4] Jan. 26". Jackson Citizen-Patriot. January 7, 2010.
In 2004, Wal-Mart opened its first Jackson location, a http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/
Supercenter, on the site vacated by Montgomery Ward 2010/01/gap_store_at_westwood_mall_in.html.
three years previous.[5][6] Five years later, the company Retrieved January 4, 2011.
expressed interest in purchasing houses behind the mall [9] Gautz, Chris (December 29, 2010). "Crown and
to build a retention basin.[7] Carriage Gifts in the Westwood Mall, and Best
Several stores closed in the mall in the late 2000s, Books at Jackson Crossing have announced plans to
including Gap, [8] Ritz Camera and an original tenant, close". Jackson Citizen-Patriot.
Crown & Carriage Gifts.[9] Despite the loss of these stores, http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/
the mall retained a higher occupancy rate than the na- 2010/12/crown_and_carriage_gifts_in_ja.html.
tional average.[10] Retrieved January 5, 2011.
[10] Guenther, Heather (May 31, 2009). "Vacancy rates
skyrocketing at malls across the U.S.". Jackson
References Citizen-Patriot. http://www.mlive.com/news/
[1] ^ "Center information for Westwood Mall". General citpat/index.ssf?/base/news-28/
Growth Properties. http://www.ggp.com/properties/ 124376431613890.xml&coll=3. Retrieved 4 January
center-information/westwood-mall. Retrieved 4 2011.
January 2011.
[2] Morris, David D. (1976). Lansing, Jackson, Ann Arbor
and automobiles. Edward Bros.. p. 100.
External links
• Official website
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