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Fairlane Green
Fairlane Green also known as "''The Hill''", is a power center in the United States city of Allen Park, Michigan. It is built on top of a former landfill and was opened to the public in stages in the mid-2000s. Tenants include Target, Meijer, LA Fitness, Old Navy, Five Below, Panera Bread, and several others. The elevation of Fairlane Green is high enough to allow one to see portions of the skyline of downtown Detroit from the northern end of the complex on most days. History Prior to the construction of Fairlane Green, there was only one large shopping development within the city of Allen Park, the Lincoln Park Shopping Center, anchored by Sears, and even then only a small portion was actually within Allen Park, the majority of it lying in adjacent Lincoln Park. Development of what became Fairlane Green began in December 2002, when Ford Land Development, the real-estate division of the Ford Motor Company, received a special use permit to redevelop a former clay mine that ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meijer
Meijer Inc. (, ) is an American supercenter chain that primarily operates throughout the Midwestern United States. Its corporate headquarters are in Walker, Michigan. Founded in 1934 as a supermarket chain, Meijer is credited with pioneering the modern supercenter concept in 1962. About half of the company's 259 stores are located in Michigan; the others are in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Wisconsin. The chain is ranked by Forbes as the 14th-largest private company in the United States, and is the country's 23rd-largest retailer by revenue as of 2023. History Meijer was founded as Meijer's in Greenville, Michigan, in 1934 by Hendrik Meijer (businessman), Hendrik Meijer, a Dutch immigrant. Meijer was a local barber who entered the grocery business during the Great Depression. His first employees included his 14-year-old son, Fred Meijer (businessman), Frederik Meijer, who later became chairman of the company. The current co-chairmen, brothers Hank and Doug Meijer, are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M-39 (Michigan Highway)
M-39 is a north–south state trunkline highway in Metro Detroit area of the US state of Michigan that runs from Lincoln Park, on the south end, to Southfield on the north. The official southern terminus of M-39 is at the corner of Southfield Road and Lafayette Boulevard in Lincoln Park, one block southeast of the junction of Interstate 75 (I-75, Fisher Freeway) and two blocks northwest of M-85 (Fort Street). From there the highway heads northward. The first of the highway follows Southfield Road, a divided highway in the Downriver area. It then transitions into the Southfield Freeway, which is a freeway that runs from I-94 in Allen Park north through Dearborn, and then the west side of Detroit, to Southfield. The northern terminus is at M-10 (Lodge Freeway) in Southfield. The current M-39 is the third highway to bear the designation. The first dated back to the origins of the state highway system in 1919 and ran between Grand Rapids and Lansing. This highway was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc
A bed is a piece of furniture that is used as a place to sleep, rest, and relax. Most modern beds consist of a soft, cushioned mattress on a bed frame. The mattress rests either on a solid base, often wood slats, or a sprung base. Many beds include a box spring inner-sprung base, which is a large mattress-sized box containing wood and springs that provide additional support and suspension for the mattress. Beds are available in many sizes, ranging from infant-sized bassinets and cribs, to small beds for a single person or adult, to large queen and king-size beds designed for two people. While most beds are single mattresses on a fixed frame, there are other varieties, such as the murphy bed, which folds into a wall, the sofa bed, which folds out of a sofa, the trundle bed, which is stored under a low, twin-sized bed and can be rolled out to create a larger sleeping area, and the bunk bed, which provides two mattresses on two tiers as well as a ladder to access the upper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cost Plus World Market
World Market, formerly Cost Plus World Market, is an American chain of specialty/import retail stores, selling home furniture, decor, curtains, rugs, gifts, apparel, coffee, wine, craft beer, and international food products. The brand's original name came from the initial concept, since abandoned, of selling items for "cost plus 10%". The company was owned by Bed Bath & Beyond from 2012 to 2021, and is currently headquartered in Alameda, California. History On 23 October 1958, William Amthor and Lincoln Bartlett opened the first Cost Plus Imports store at 2552 Taylor Street on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, California. (This location would permanently close in 2020.) Amthor and Bartlett worked at Amthor's family's import business in San Francisco, which had imported a surplus of wicker furniture. Unable to offload the pieces via wholesale, they rented of warehouse space in the Fisherman's Wharf area. The imported furniture sold quickly, and Amthor began a new business as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pier 1 Imports
Pier 1 Imports, Inc., is an online retailer and former Fort Worth, Texas-based retail chain specializing in imported home furnishings and decor, particularly furniture, table-top items, decorative accessories, and seasonal decor. It was Public company, publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker PIR. In January 2020, Pier 1 had over 1,000 physical stores throughout the United States and Canada. Pier 1 filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on February 17, 2020, and on May 19, 2020, announced it was asking the bankruptcy court to close all stores, due in large part to the COVID-19 pandemic. In July 2020, Retail ECommerce Ventures (REV) bought the rights to Pier 1 and planned to revive the brand as an ecommerce store. At the end of October 2020, Pier 1 Imports closed its remaining stores and transferred its website to REV, which is trade name, doing business as Dallas-based Pier 1 Imports Online, Inc. History In 1962, Charles D. Tandy and Luther Henderson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On The Border Mexican Grill & Cantina
On The Border Mexican Grill & Cantina is an American chain of Tex-Mex food casual dining restaurants. The chain and brand name is owned by Argonne Capital Group. History The first On The Border location opened on October 29, 1982, in Dallas, Texas. In 1994, the chain lost its wholly owned subsidiary designation when it was merged into Brinker International as a company brand. In 2010, Brinker International sold On the Border to Golden Gate Capital. OTB Acquisition LLC, an affiliate of Golden Gate Capital, announced that it had completed its acquisition of On The Border Mexican Grill & Cantina from Brinker International, Inc. (NYSE: EAT). On April 24, 2014, the chain was sold to Argonne Capital Group, another private equity firm. In February 2025, both locations in Long Island, New York were closed permanently. On March 5, 2025, On the Border filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, listing assets and liabilities between $10 million and $50 million. The company blamed inf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michaels
Michaels Stores, Inc., doing business as Michaels, is an American privately held arts and crafts retail chain. It is North America's largest provider of arts, crafts, framing, floral and wall décor, and merchandise for makers and do-it-yourself home decorators. The company is a subsidiary of The Michaels Companies, which was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Irving, Texas. In addition to Michaels stores, The Michaels Companies operates Aaron Brothers Custom Framing store-within-a-store, and Artistree, a manufacturer of custom and specialty framing merchandise. The company also develops over a dozen private brands sold in Michaels stores, including Recollections, Studio Décor, Bead Landing, Creatology, and Ashland. As of January 2021, there were 1,252 Michaels stores in 49 out of 50 states in the U.S., and Canada, with approximately $5.362 billion in sales for fiscal 2020. History In 1973, businessman Michael J. Dupey founded Michaels in Dallas, Texas when he converte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lane Bryant
Lane Bryant Inc. is an American women's apparel and intimates specialty retailer focusing on plus-size clothing. The company began in 1904 with maternity designs created by Lena Himmelstein Bryant Malsin. Lane Bryant, Inc., is the largest plus-size retailer in the United States. As of 2022, the chain consists of 448 stores in 46 U.S. states (only Alaska, Hawaii, Montana and Wyoming do not have Lane Bryant stores). Lane Bryant, Inc. is not affiliated with Lane Bryant catalog (Brylane, Inc.), which was spun off as a separate business in 1993. Beginning Widowed at an early age, and the orphaned daughter of Lithuanian Jewish refugees, Lena Bryant supported herself and her young son as a dressmaker. Borrowing $300 from her brother-in-law, Bryant went to the bank to open an account. The bank officer misspelled her name on the application as ''Lane'' instead of ''Lena''. In 1904, she rented a small storefront on Fifth Avenue with living quarters in the back for $12.50 a month. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dress Barn
Dressbarn is an online retailer that specializes in women's casual dresses, leisure wear, accessories, and workwear. The company was founded as Dress Barn and operated retail stores between the early 1960s and late 2010s. In 2020, it became a brand owned by the private equity firm Retail Ecommerce Ventures (REV) and branded as dressbarn. History The first Dress Barn (originally two words) was opened in February 1962 by Roslyn Jaffe in Stamford, Connecticut. Jaffe stocked wear-to-work dresses and women’s clothing during an era of women entering the workforce in greater numbers. Dress Barn began trading on NASDAQ (symbol DBRN) in 1982. In January 2011, to reflect its broader holdings, the company was reorganized as a Delaware corporation named Ascena Retail Group, Inc., with its NASDAQ symbol changed to ASNA in 2011. As part of the reorganization, the name was shortened to Dressbarn (stylized in all-lowercase). On May 21, 2019, Ascena Retail Group announced that it would e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble Booksellers is an American bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States. The company operates approximately 600 retail stores across the United States. Barnes & Noble operates mainly through its Barnes & Noble Booksellers chain of bookstores. The company's headquarters are at 33 E. 17th Street on Union Square in New York City. After a series of mergers and bankruptcies in the American bookstore industry since the 1990s, Barnes & Noble is the United States' largest bookstore chain and the only national chain. Previously, Barnes & Noble operated the chain of small B. Dalton, B. Dalton Bookseller stores in malls until they announced the liquidation of the chain in 2010. The company was also one of the nation's largest manager of college textbook stores located on or near many college campuses when that division was spun off as a separate public company called Barnes & Noble Education in 2015. The company is known by its customers fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The News-Herald (Southgate, Michigan)
''The News-Herald'' is a bi-weekly newspaper serving the Downriver suburbs of Detroit. It is based in Southgate, Michigan, and owned by Digital First Media as part of its Detroit region. The newspaper is published every Wednesday and Sunday. History The ''News-Herald''s history dates back to the 1870s, when the Rev. George W. Owen established the Wyandotte ''Herald'' in Wyandotte, MI. After merging with the Wyandotte ''Daily News'', from 1944 it was known as the Wyandotte ''News-Herald.'' The Mellus Newspapers started in the 1920s, subsequently flourished for decades under famous publisher/editor William Mellus. The current ''News-Herald'' format was established under the Heritage Newspapers brand in 1986, when the late industrialist Heinz Prechter brought the old ''News-Herald'' (based in Wyandotte, MI) and Mellus Newspapers (based in Lincoln Park, MI) from SEM Newspapers Inc. and combined them into a single Downriver publication each Wednesday. In 1988, The ''News-He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
