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Older Mall Falls Prey to New Concepts

SOUTHFIELD, MI-Owner Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust will open up Tel-Twelve Mall into outside retail shops. Kmart will expand and a 140,000-sf Lowe's will join to make the area a big-box bonanza.

By Robert Carr | Updated on December 14, 2001

SOUTHFIELD, MI-The 40-year-old Tel-Twelve Mall here has worn out its use as an enclosed shopping center, and its owner believes the property will do better as a strip center. Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust, also based in this Detroit suburb, is tearing down portions of the mall to make it an outdoor destination area at the bustling corner of 12 Mile and Telegraph roads, flanked by I-696.

The area has had heavy competition by the increased openings of big-box electronics, clothing and media stories surrounding the mall and in nearby Novi.

Company officials says the older mall does not fit with today’s enclosed mall concepts, and new anchors must be built to take over from the current space formerly occupied by Crowley’s and Montgomery Ward, which was cleared out after bankruptcy earlier this year. Many stores in the mall have suffered, and moved out.

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