South side of East Jefferson east of St. Jean

[Honky Tonk]

313WX is correct. The shopping center at E. Jefferson and St. Jean failed because the Farmer Jack closed. The E. Jefferson Farmer Jack was a casualty of the insolvency of that entire chain of supermarkets. Once the shopping center lost the customer trips generated by FJ's [[that store was the largest in the chain), the other smaller retailers slowly withered away, assisted significantly by the Great Recession.

See my latest post. If it was a "hot" area, someone would have been in like a flash to replace Farmer Jack. No one came.

[swingline]

See my latest post. If it was a "hot" area, someone would have been in like a flash to replace Farmer Jack. No one came.

The old FJ space is 3x bigger than any Aldi store. It is simply far too big for their store model. Never a chance that they would take the space.

Kroger long ago admitted that with its unionized labor cost structure, it cannot also absorb the added costs of doing business in Detroit and make money. It exited the city a decade ago.

The demographics of the E. Jefferson/St. Jean area don't come close to satisfying the demographic criteria required by Whole Foods and Trader Joe's. Plus, the space also 3x larger than their store model.

Anyway, who said the area was "hot?" All anybody is saying is that the shopping center's failure was largely due to the regionwide closing of all of the store locations of its sole anchor tenant. There are several dying or dead shopping centers all over the state of Michigan that were formerly anchored by Farmer Jacks.