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Family-Owned Store Follows Trend, Shuts Doors

ROCHESTER, MI-The owner of Mitzelfeld's department store says he will attempt to lease the space in Downtown once his store closes at the end of the month.

By Dan Heaton | Updated on January 07, 2004

ROCHESTER, MI-Mitzelfeld’s, among one of the last family-owned department stores in metro Detroit, will close its doors at the end of the month after a 54-year run.

The store joins the likes of other family-owned department stores that have gone before it-—Muirhead in Dearborn, Kern’s in Detroit and Mulias and Ellias in Trenton.

Owner Brad Mitzelfeld hopes to lease the 75,000-sf space after the existing store closes. His vision: a larger specialty store with a regional or national name that again makes the location a “destination,” he says.

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