It was the first planned regional shopping center in the world and now it will be restored, with a few twists, to its former glory. Northland Center in suburban Detroit opened in 1954, a new concept in shopping that drew retail attention from the world o
August 18, 2023
“Retailers came from Europe to see it because nobody had seen anything like that on such a vast scale,” said Bruce Kopytek, chief architect with Contour Companies, which is redesigning the 159-acre site, now in its second year of reconstruction. The focal point would be the department store itself, replicating in part the vast downtown building with its famed red Norman brick. Individual retail shops under canopies would spread out from it with an outdoor parklike mall of walkways, planters and benches.CONTOUR COMPANIES — A rendering shows the former Northland mall’s conversion into a residential-commercial “city within a city,” keeping J. L. Hudson store’s original red brick cladding throughout. The original store is at far right.
It was “vacant, bankrupt, vandalized, derelict in the worst possible way” including where a pack of coyotes lived, he said.What Kopytek’s firm came up with was a refreshed vision of that original town square model but with a mix of residential and retail, almost a small city or village.
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