During that time, it was purchased by Barry Cole and the State Theatre Group, with plans to convert it into a performing arts complex. The screen remained dark at the downtown fixture for over a decade. It was a quarter century ago that the State Theatre closed its doors. And in the last year of the decade, the Traverse Area District Library opened its doors, welcoming readers to its new location on Woodmere. The National Cherry Festival was named a Top Ten Event by USA Today in 1997, ‘98 and ‘99. Grand Traverse Mall and the Horizon Outlet Mall opened in 1992. In Traverse City, the ‘90s saw a host of developments, changes, and newsworthy events, and The Ticker explores all in our third and final Sunday lookback. Seinfeld, ER and Friends were all the rage on TV, and Bill Clinton was reelected President in 1996. In the mid-90s, the worldwide web was coming into common usage, with the debut of eBay, and email becoming a familiar everyday tool.
The world was a very different place just 25 years ago. The store opened on October 27, 2017.Traverse City A Quarter Century Ago By Ross Boissoneau Dick's canceled its plans to open the store in December 2016, The space instead became Dunham's Sports. Mall officials announced in 2016 that the theater space would be demolished for a Dick's Sporting Goods, originally to open in Fall 2016.
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The mall's movie theater complex closed in 2015 when a newer theater was built by owner Carmike Cinemas. The space occupied by Old Navy was previously a For Your Entertainment store. Gap and Old Navy both closed at nearby Horizon Outlets (now Buffalo Ridge Shopping Center), consolidating into a new Old Navy store at Grand Traverse Mall. The body was eventually determined to be a night shift custodian. In October 2014, a dead body was found at the mall, causing it to be closed for a day while the body was investigated. General Growth Properties, which developed the mall, transferred ownership to Rouse Properties in 2012.
Another lawsuit, regarding conflict of interest among township officials who sold land to the mall developers, was ruled in favor of the developers. In 2003, Best Buy opened west of the mall across the street.īefore its opening, it was involved in a lawsuit started by an existing mall in town (Cherryland Mall, now Cherryland Center) over concerns that mall construction would pollute a nearby creek, and that it would add too much retail space to the region. As with all other Hudson's stores in Michigan, the Grand Traverse Mall location converted to Marshall Field's in 2001 and Macy's in 2006. It featured 110 stores and a nine-screen Kerasotes Theatres complex, making it the largest mall in Michigan to be located north of Saginaw. The mall opened in phases: JCPenney and Target opened in October 1991, followed by the mall itself in March 1992 and Hudson's in October.
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