

On April 18, 2018, it was announced that Younkers would also be closing as parent company, The Bon-Ton, was going out of business. On June 6, 2017, Sears Holdings announced that Kmart would be closing as part of a plan to close 72 stores nationwide. The mall was foreclosed on by Wells Fargo in 2010 also, Tom's Food Market, which had taken over the supermarket space in 1986, closed. When renovation was complete, the center was converted to an outdoor mall. As part of this renovation, Sears expanded its store into the western third of the mall in 1999. Under these plans, the Sears and Younkers stores would also be expanded.
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In 1998, plans were announced to demolish the interior mall portion while leaving all four anchors intact. Peripheral development the same year included two smaller strip malls and a Zantigo fast food restaurant. By late 1977, the rest of the mall was opened. The Sears store replaced a catalog merchant located in downtown Traverse City. (now Younkers) and Sears had been confirmed as the other anchors. Kmart opened in November 1976, followed by Kroger in December.

In April 1976, the first tenants for Cherryland Mall were confirmed: a Kmart discount store, a Kroger supermarket, and a branch of Michigan National Bank. Despite this, recent plans call for the property to be further redeveloped into an indoor recreation complex. A number of anchor tenants closing in the 2010s led to the property being deemed a " dead mall", despite retaining a high occupancy rate. In 1999, the property was redeveloped as an outdoor shopping center. Opened in 1976, the site served as the only enclosed shopping mall in Northwest Michigan until 1992, when the nearby Grand Traverse Mall opened. 44☄4′06″N 85☃5′53″W / 44.735°N 85.598°W / 44.735 -85.598Ĥ (2 open, 1 under construction, 1 vacant)Ĭherryland Center, formerly known as Cherryland Mall, is an shopping center located in Garfield Township near Traverse City in the U.S.
