Livonia Marketplace

Livonia Marketplace is a shopping mall in the Detroit suburb of Livonia, Michigan. Opened in 2010, the center is anchored by Sears and Walmart. It occupies the site of the former Livonia Mall, which was an enclosed mall built in 1964. Livonia Mall lost the majority of its tenants in the 2000s, including its previous anchor stores of Crowley's (later Value City), Mervyns and Children's Palace. The mall was closed in May 2008, with only the Sears remaining from the original property.HistoryLivonia Mall opened on 29 October 1964 as the second mall to be constructed in Livonia. The site had been zoned for agriculture and was rezoned by the Livonia City Council for commercial use. A farm house, a large barn and other agricultural structures were demolished before construction began. The Livonia Mall became one of the first enclosed shopping malls to open in the state of Michigan. The site now hosts one of the many strip malls located within Livonia and the Greater Detroit Metropolitan Region.The mall was developed by the Schostak Corporation as an enclosed mall. At the time of its opening, Detroit's suburbs were expanding and new shopping malls were being developed within their boundaries. Livonia already featured an open outdoor mall in Wonderland Center (later Wonderland Mall), which opened in 1959 and closed in 2004. A year after the mall opened, a General Cinema theater, the first multiplex cinema in Michigan, was added in the Crowley's wing. During the early years of operation the facility housed two grocery stores and provided space for a doctor's office and a dentist.