Southland Center (Michigan)

Southland Center

Southland Center from the eastern Eureka Road entrance, November 2014
Location	Taylor, Michigan, United States
Opening date	July 20, 1970
Developer	Dayton-Hudson Corporation
Management	Rouse Properties
Owner	Rouse Properties
Architect	Victor Gruen, Louis G. Redstone
No. of stores and services	108
No. of anchor tenants	8
Total retail floor area	920,000 square feet
No. of floors	1 (2 in JCPenney, 3 in Macy's)
Website	http://www.shopsouthlandcenter.com/

Southland Center (also known as Southland Mall) is an enclosed mall located at 23000 Eureka Road in Taylor, Michigan (a Downriver community located southwest of Detroit), exactly halfway between U.S. Highway 24 (Telegraph Road) and the Interstate 75 freeway, presently anchored by Macy's, JCPenney, Best Buy, Shoe Carnival, Forever 21, Ulta, H&M and a 12-screen Cinemark movie theater. It is the newest of the Detroit area's four "land" malls (Northland, Southland, Eastland, Westland). Southland Center opened on July 20, 1970. It is owned and managed by Rouse Properties, one of the largest mall owners in the United States.

Southland Center was designed by Victor Gruen Associates and Louis G. Redstone Associates, and the newly formed Dayton-Hudson Corporation (a merger of Dayton's of Minneapolis and Hudson's of Detroit) developed the mall. When opened in 1970, Southland Mall was originally anchored by a three-level; 272,000-square-foot (25,300 m²) Hudson's at the center of the mall and junior-anchored by a Woolworth's dime store off the center court and a Kroger supermarket on the eastern side. A two-screen movie theater, located off the west court, opened just weeks after the rest of the mall. Kroger built a larger facility across Eureka Road in the mid-1970s, with the former store gutted and divided into several smaller stores, attached to a new wing ending in a new two-level; 215,000-square-foot (20,000 m²) JCPenney store in 1976. In 1986, the theater, by then a four-screen venue, was purchased by AMC Theatres. Then in 1988, a small addition was built onto the western side, including a 75,000-square-foot (7,000 m²) Mervyns store.