Lighthouse Place Premium Outlets is an open-air

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located in

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. The mall is one of Michigan City's major tourist attractions. It is one of Northwest Indiana's most popular shopping centers, receiving an estimated one million visitors annually as of 2017. The mall is located in Michigan City's downtown area. It is designed to resemble a seaside village, playing off of its proximity to

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History

The site where the mall is now located was once occupied by a

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railcar plant. Construction of the mall started in the autumn of 1986, and the mall's central court opened in May 1987. Unlike many malls of its era, Lighthouse Place Premium Outlets was constructed in the city's downtown, rather than near

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s, and was an open-air mall, as opposed to an indoor mall. The mall is in walking distance of the

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's 11th Street station.

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