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New Stores Hope to Breathe New Life into Aging Mall

HARPER WOODS, MI-A new Sears store has opened, and a Lowe's is soon to open in Shopco's Eastland Center in this Detroit suburb. The new retailers represent new hope for the property, which suffered major blows with the closing of Wards and JC Penney stores in recent years.

By Dan Heaton | Updated on October 25, 2003

HARPER WOODS, MI-Eastland Center officials hope the addition of three major retailers will breathe new life into the struggling mall. The 46-year-old mall has added a 100,000-sf-plus Sears, which opened this month, a Lowe’s, which is to open next month, and plans for a third major retailer to be announced soon, officials says.

The mall’s problems were fueled by the closing of JC Penney in 2000, and the closings of Montgomery Ward and Winkleman’s in 1997. Since then, Eastland has been hobbling along with just two anchor stores–Marshall Field and Target.

The Sears opened this month in the former JC Penney spot and Lowe’s opened on the former Eastland Cinema land at the corner of Vernier and Beaconsfield roads. The center is negotiating with two retailers for the former Montgomery Ward site, says Denise DeSantis, Eastland’s marketing director.

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