Saturday, February 25, 2017

Sears in Crystal Lake, Illinois Closing.

First it was Kmart in 2014, now Sears is closing there Crystal Lake, Illinois location in March as the property was purchased for Mariano's (a supermarket that replaced Dominick's as Chicagolands second leading grocery chain behind Jewel-Osco). After the stores closing, demolition will follow close after as the plan is for Mariano's to open by 2018, according to this article by Northwest Herald.

Sears has been here for a long time, I believe it has been a Sears since around 2000, as Montgomery Ward was located here. The front entrance just looks like one to me, I am not sure when the Wards store opened however.

Here are a few photos I took during a walk through earlier this month.

Although it is sad that Sears is closing another store, I do look forward to going in Mariano's when that opens. I wonder how that will impact the business of Joseph's Market across the street, I guess we will see.

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Sears Closing at Woodland Mall In Grand Rapids, Michigan.

A major mall in Grand Rapids, Michigan will see major changes in the next few years as big plans are in store. Woodland mall located in Kentwood, Michigan is anchored by a Sears that is scheduled to close by late March. Property management form PREIT, which owns the store, plans on demolishing the 313,000 square foot building, and replacing it with a Von Maur and an expansion to the current wing to include 10 to 15 new stores, according to the article from mLive.

This will be the first Von Maur in Western Michigan, as two other locations reside in Ann Arbor and Livonia, Michigan, outside Detroit. Construction of the Von Maur store is expected to start in 2018, the the expansion being complete and store opening in fall 2019.

Here is my original post of the mall featuring photo's from December 2014.

This is one big Sears store.

Vintage signage.

Pretty dark, of course is was closed for the evening before I got these photos.

I think this is a part of Sears, the key cutting shop.

I can't wait to check out the progress of the remodel and expansion next year, and how it comes out when its complete.

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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

MC Sports Closing All 66 Stores.

Another one bites the dust...as Grand Rapids, Michigan- based sporting goods retailer MC Sports has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy and is closing all 66 stores. The company filed for chapter 11 February 14th and immediately announced total liquidation. The chain had 24 stores in Michigan, 11 in Ohio, eight in Illinois, seven is Wisconsin, five in Missouri, and four in Iowa.

A liquidation of each location is already in progress and expected to last a few weeks, or until each stores run out of merchandise. According to this article by Cleveland.com , MC Sports was originally founded as Michigan Clothiers in 1946, but changed names to MC Sports in 1962 to reflect a growing focus on selling sporting goods and apparel. MC Sports also bough competing chains in order to expand through Illinois, Morrie Mages' Sports and Browns Sporting Goods.

Here is the list of store locations included in the closing according to MC Sports website:

OHIO

425 Water St	Chardon	OH
4927 Grande Shops Ave	Medina	OH
67800 Mall Ring Road, Unit No. 215	St. Clairsville	OH
3885 Gorsky Dr. Suite F9	Zanesville	OH
230 McMahan Blvd	Marion	OH
941 Coshocton Avenue	Mount Vernon	OH
3749 Burbank Road	Wooster	OH
1475 Upper Valley Pike Upper Valley Mall	Springfield	OH
1639 Rombach Ave	Wilmington	OH
2400 Elida Road, Space 918A	Lima	OH
27171 Crossroads Parkway	Rossford	OH

MICHIGAN

12765 Harper Village Drive	Battle Creek	MI
6272 S. Westnedge Road	Kalamazoo	MI
5157 West Main	Kalamazoo	MI
1164 Jackson Crossing	Jackson	MI
5002 Saginaw	Lansing	MI
1412 South Mission	Mount Pleasant	MI
462 Briarwood Circle	Ann Arbor	MI
8101 Movie Dr.	Brighton	MI
6248 Saginaw Road	Grand Blanc	MI
863 South Main Street	Lapeer	MI
14600 Lakeside Circle	Sterling Heights	MI
4830 Wilson Avenue, Suite 700	Grandville	MI
2337 North Park Drive Suite 14	Holland	MI
1755 East Sherman Blvd.	Muskegon	MI
6800 Cannonsburg Road	Belmont	MI
3160 – 28th Street, S.E.	Grand Rapids	MI
3150 Plainfield Avenue	Grand Rapids	MI
1286 West Perry Street	Big Rapids	MI
8873 East 34 Road (Boon)	Cadilac	MI
3450 S. Airport Road West	Traverse City	MI
1064 M-32 West	Alpena	MI
1517 W. Main Street	Gaylord	MI
1614 Anderson Road	Petoskey	MI
3020 W. Highway 41	Marquette	MI

INDIANA

3100 Susan Drive	Bloomington	IN
1114 South 17th Markland Mall H12A	Kokemo	IN
4201 Coldwater Road, Suite #P9	Fort Wayne	IN
10250 Maysville Road	Fort Wayne	IN
4024 Elkhart Road, Suite 25	Goshen	IN
4110 South Franklin	Michigan City	IN
1500 Pilgrim Lane, Suite 110	Plymouth	IN

WISCONSIN

1200 Commons Circle	Plover	WI
2211 8th Street S.	Wisconsin Rapids	WI
4421 Dewey Street	Manitowoc	WI
3650 County Road A	Sheboygan	WI
1311 W. Paradise Drive	West Bend	WI
9348 St. Hwy 16 Crosseroads Center	Onalaska	WI
119 Commerce Street	Wisconsin Dells	WI

ILLINOIS

2058 Sycamore Road	Dekalb	IL
7141 Harrison Avenue	Rockford	IL
3340 Mall Loop Dr., Suite 1144	Joliet	IL
1651 38th Street	Peru	IL
2000 North Neil St, Space No. 395	Champaign	IL
US 51 North Hickory Point Mall – Space 100	Forsyth	IL
1615 E. Empire	Bloomington	IL
105 N. Main St	East Peoria	IL

MISSOURI

1017 Branson Hills Parkway	Branson	MO
2825 South Glensone Space R14A	Springfield	MO
2300 Bernadette Drive	Columbia	MO

603 N. Belt	St Joseph	MO
354 Hawthorne Blvd, Suite A	Warrensburg	MO

IOWA

1110 N. Quincy, Unit A1

Ottumwa

1205 SE 16th Court Interstate Shopping Center	Ankeny	IA
3850 Merle Hay Road, Suite #960	Des Moines	IA
452 Indianhead Drive	Mason City	IA

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Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Update: The Orchards Mall In Benton Harbor, Michigan Is Still Open.

As I headed toward Grand Rapids for the weekend, I decided to stop at The Orchards Mall in Benton Harbor, the first mall I ever went to in Michigan. I first visited this little mall along I-94 back in July 2012, photo's of that time can be seen here in my original post of the mall.

I have been meaning to get more pictures of this mall as I did not get that many of the outside the first time around, but nothing changed about the outside compared to my first set of photo's. Some tenant's are there that weren't last time, as some that were there last time, are not there now.

Here are the photo's I took last week featuring a more in depth depiction of how business at the mall is doing. It just began to flurry after leaving the mall, but getting caught in a white out at night was the highlight of the trip!