Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Arcadia Publishing : Made available through hoopla, 2014
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781439647950 (electronic bk.) MWT11455621, 143964795X (electronic bk.) 11455621
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
For decades, downtown Grand Rapids enjoyed a long run in the limelight as the epicenter of shopping in western Michigan. The vibrant Monroe Avenue corridor included three homegrown department stores, several chain department stores, five-and-dime stores, and scores of clothing and specialty retailers. It weathered mother nature, wars, the Great Depression, the advent of neighborhood shopping centers, and civil disturbances-but the one change it could not overcome was the regional shopping mall
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