Traverse City redevelopment noted in story on big-box stores

In the last few years, big-box stores have been struggling, and closing locations in some cases. What do cities do with the huge retail spaces left behind? This Detroit Free Press story explores some things that have worked.

Excerpt: Tucked behind the Oakland Mall in Troy is a big box of nostalgia.

With its familiar maroon stripe, the outside of the store looks much as it did when it housed a Circuit City, the electronics retailer that went bankrupt in 2009. Only the name on the sign is different. The interior has the same carpeting and automatic doors.

But the sales floor, once aglow with rows of flat-panel TVs, now bears the weight of four dozen antique cars and roadsters, including a baby blue 1957 Ford T-Bird.

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Source: Detroit Free Press