Bay City Mall

Bay City Mall

Interior of Bay City Mall, December 2013.
Location	Bangor Township, Bay County, Michigan
Coordinates	43°37′37″N 83°53′28″W / 43.627°N 83.891°W / 43.627; -83.891Coordinates: 43°37′37″N 83°53′28″W / 43.627°N 83.891°W / 43.627; -83.891
Address	4101 E. Wilder Rd.
Opening date	1991
Developer	Homart Development/Robert B. Aikens
Management	Bay City Mall Partners
No. of stores and services	50+
No. of anchor tenants	2
Total retail floor area	530,000 square feet (49,000 m2) (GLA)
No. of floors	1

Bay City Mall is an enclosed shopping mall serving Bay City, Michigan. Opened in 1991, the mall features two anchor stores in J. C. Penney and Younkers, with two vacancies last occupied by Target and Sears. Other major tenants include Marshalls, Shoe Department Encore, Dunham's Sports, and a 10-screen movie theater owned by Goodrich Quality Theaters. It is managed by a partnership of Lormax Stern. It is the second mall in Bay County, Michigan, the first being the defunct Hampton Square Mall.

Target opened in 1990, and the rest of the mall, including Sears and an H. C. Prange Co. department store (bought out by Younkers in 1992), opened the next year. It was developed by Homart Development, a now-defunct retail arm of Sears, who sold most of its retail properties to General Growth Properties in 1995. In 2005, the mall received media attention when Bryan Johnson, who was costumed as the Easter Bunny during an Easter event at the mall, was attacked by a 12-year-old customer.

Old Navy opened a store at the mall in 2007. Several tenants at Bay City Mall closed in the late 2000s, including a B. Dalton bookstore and a classroom maintained by Bay-Arenac Intermediate School District, which had been at the mall since 1995. A Ruby Tuesday restaurant across from the mall also closed in 2009. These closures led to rumors that further stores, or the mall itself, might close. In 2010, the mall owners at the time, General Growth Properties, listed Bay City Mall among its least profitable malls, and announced plans to place it and eleven other malls under management of a new company. In February 2010, ownership of the mall was turned over to a trust of unidentified lenders, who hired Cushman & Wakefield Inc. to oversee the mall. These new owners have planned a $200,000 renovation of the mall property, including a new sign on Wilder Road. Old Navy closed in mid-2012.Planet Fitness opened in October of the same year.