Malls have gotten pretty bland. When they first started building them, they were "the new Main Street." The stores were mostly local. I worked at Westland a couple of times in my younger days, in the first decade that the mall was open. Anchor: Hudson's. Other stores: Himelhoch's, United Shirt Distributors, Ross Music, Englander Triangle Furniture, National Coney Island, Hughes-Hatcher-Suffrin, National Bank of Detroit. I think there were some small national or midwest chains, like Tie Rack or 5-7-9 Shop. The stores were mostly the same stores you found downtown. Now? Virtually every mall in the USA is identical to every other mall targeted to a particular demographic. Why bother? And don't tell me that Macy's is just like Hudson's. Macy's is NOTHING like Hudson's. I don't know what in the heck Sears is now, and neither does anyone else. Maybe that's why their parking lots are always empty.