Grand it was. Shopping at Saks and Lord & Taylor in the early 80s was a thrill. Then, the worst offenses was riding the monorail back and forth too many times. Most of us kids were more worried about being in Dearborn and what would happen just for being...
Trying to shore up all the other shopping areas took away from the small town ambiance of the rest of Dearborn, I think. The mall would have done just fine had Taubman treated it like his top tier mall and brought in more specialty stores. They were doing too much reinventing from the original idea- when Northland closed it should have boomed.
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