Cincinnati_kid Member Username: Cincinnati_kid
Post Number: 24 Registered: 07-2006
| Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 9:13 am: | |
What is this huge building going up on Telegraph and Square Lake road? It's directly across the street from Golling Dodge. There are no signs present, which is why I wanted to know. |
Dtwflyer Member Username: Dtwflyer
Post Number: 63 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 9:15 am: | |
Target Will be the first 2-story Target in Michigan. That used to be a movie theater was and the site sat vacant for a number of years. |
Yaktown Member Username: Yaktown
Post Number: 311 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 11:09 pm: | |
I work across the street from there and it's been interesting watching the progress. It should be open this fall. There will be a parking garage under the store at ground level. |
Cincinnati_kid Member Username: Cincinnati_kid
Post Number: 25 Registered: 07-2006
| Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 7:50 am: | |
Thx for the replies guys. That's gotta be the largest Target in the country. I remember the movie theater being there. Had to built in the 60's. (Message edited by cincinnati_kid on March 02, 2008) |
Deandub11 Member Username: Deandub11
Post Number: 228 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 8:48 am: | |
I think when the theater left the sign said something to the effect of "thanks for 27 great years" Not sure when it came down. www.DetroitArmy.com |
Yaktown Member Username: Yaktown
Post Number: 313 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 1:42 pm: | |
The original Showcase Cinema 1-5 opened there in 1970 and closed in 2002, according to this page: http://www.water-winterwonderl and.com/location.asp?ID=411&ty pe=5 |
Dannaroo Member Username: Dannaroo
Post Number: 190 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 3:06 pm: | |
"2 story Target" is a bit misleading.... the lower level will be parking. I know there is at least one Target like this already in Chicago. |
Dustin89 Member Username: Dustin89
Post Number: 216 Registered: 07-2006
| Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 3:47 pm: | |
Yaktown...I miss the Showcase Cinemas so bad. When I was in elementary school, my mother took me to many a movie at the ones on Telegraph Road in Bloomfield Hills & the theater on Opdyke Rd. in Auburn Hills, and also (I can't remember if it was a Showcase--I'm pretty sure it was) the smallish theater on the Summit Place Mall property, near the Food Court. I have no choice now, so I go to Star Theaters with friends, but I don't like it nearly as much. P.S. I'm pretty sure there were two Showcase Cinemas on Telegraph, across the street from each other. |
Rokk_krinn Member Username: Rokk_krinn
Post Number: 61 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 9:15 pm: | |
Does anyone know why this specific site was chosen for a 2 story Target? I would expect that in a more urban area. It seems like there is plentiful land there - and I would have assumed that they would have done the typical big box store with the surrounding sea of parking. |
Yaktown Member Username: Yaktown
Post Number: 314 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 11:05 pm: | |
Dustin, the cinema at Summit Place was never a Showcase. It was simply called Summit Cinema I-III. Previous to the outbuilding, the cinema was located inside the mall. And you are correct on the 2 Showcases on Telegraph. I recall going to the Cinema 6-12 wayyyy back in 1985 to see Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Rokk, they don't seem to have a lot of parking there as they share a lot with Hillside Furniture. They probably had to add the parking garage to be up to code or whatever, i.e: so many parking spots for so many square feet of building. |
L_b_patterson Member Username: L_b_patterson
Post Number: 336 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, March 03, 2008 - 8:20 am: | |
Two storey Target? That is so Cleveland four years ago. |
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 5399 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, March 03, 2008 - 9:37 am: | |
Parking underneath? What's up with developers lately, they are actually making intelligent moves. |
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 5400 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, March 03, 2008 - 9:38 am: | |
PS reminds me a little of the Art Van on Woodward in RO. It's an interesting space, with part of the store overhanging the parking. |
Eboyer Member Username: Eboyer
Post Number: 87 Registered: 01-2007
| Posted on Monday, March 03, 2008 - 10:14 am: | |
Johnlodge, isn't the entire store overhanging the parking? |
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 5401 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, March 03, 2008 - 10:15 am: | |
I'm not positive, can't you turn left or right at the top of the escalator from the parking level? I think right is the part over the parking, but left is not. I'm not 100% on that, though. |
Dustin89 Member Username: Dustin89
Post Number: 219 Registered: 07-2006
| Posted on Monday, March 03, 2008 - 2:32 pm: | |
Yaktown--I had never heard that [that the cinema was once inside the Summit Place]. When did they go from having it inside to the outbuilding? |
Focusonthed Member Username: Focusonthed
Post Number: 1713 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Monday, March 03, 2008 - 4:01 pm: | |
Good for them for doing this there. There are two forms of "urban" Targets in Chicago. One is a smaller-plot 2 story store with an attached parking garage. Another is this method, basically a normal Target parking lot with a normal Target store right on top of it. Kids love the shopping cart escalators. |
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 5407 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, March 03, 2008 - 5:20 pm: | |
I stand corrected, happened to drive by that Art Van today, there is parking under both sides, so yes, the entire store is above parking spaces. |
Yaktown Member Username: Yaktown
Post Number: 316 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Monday, March 03, 2008 - 10:06 pm: | |
Dustin, I think the Summit Place Cinema was indoors back in the early 80's. I recall when it was still called Pontiac Mall and was being renovated and then renamed Summit Place. I would hazard a guess that the outbuilding was completed circa 1986. Check that, here's the wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S ummit_Place_Mall has no info on the cinema though. Sorry to get off-topic! |
Rel Member Username: Rel
Post Number: 307 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 3:18 am: | |
Space is not plentiful there. And whatever is available is very 'spensive! |
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765
Post Number: 2572 Registered: 01-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 6:15 am: | |
"I would expect that in a more urban area." Thats just a bit outside downtown Pontiac. Perfect blend of subs and urban areas for a store like that. |
Quinn Member Username: Quinn
Post Number: 1573 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 7:18 am: | |
I went to the largest Target I've ever seen in New Orleans this past New Years' break. IT was also two stories and had awesome shopping card escalators...totally made me think of what a Target, with a limited footprint, would be like. |
Dustin89 Member Username: Dustin89
Post Number: 220 Registered: 07-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 12:01 pm: | |
Yaktown--I knew that there was a renovation and then an expansion in the early 1990's...but if your guess of 1986 is correct that is why I never knew about the cinema being indoors. I'm only 18, so I remember the Summit Place of the mid-to-late 1990s to present. BTW to get back on topic: is there any word on whether the Summit West Target location will close as a result of this new Telegraph/Sq. Lake Target? It seems very close to the Waterford location on Summit Drive. |
Yaktown Member Username: Yaktown
Post Number: 319 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 8:17 pm: | |
I guess that explains the 89 after your screenname, same year I graduated high school. Anyway, I have also heard rumors that the Target in Waterford will be closing after this new one opens. Same thing happened with Steve & Barry's. They had a great location at Great Lakes Crossing then opened another one at Summit North (the old HQ building). Now the store at GLC is closed! |
Dustin89 Member Username: Dustin89
Post Number: 224 Registered: 07-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 4:15 pm: | |
I can't say I was too upset about the Steve & Barry's move from GLC to Summit North. :-D |