Jewel stores in Michigan
Posted: 22 Mar 2009 11:25
For the longest time, I never knew that Jewel operated stores in Michigan. Not surprisingly, these stores were all concentrated in the SW quadrant of the state. I've found several of them. I'm not exactly sure when the chain left Michigan, but it seems to be sometime around 1993.
412 Howard St., Kalamazoo is now a Harding's. Looks to be a fairly big store.
When Maple Hill Mall first opened, it had a Jewel/Turn Style combo attached to the mall but not accessible from within until the west anchor closed and was divided among mall stores. Meijer opened a Meijer Square store (just a discount, no grocery) in the former Turn Style space. After Meijer moved out of this space, the former Meijer and Jewel buildings became Target, which they are to this day. Sometime in the early 1990s, Jewel moved across the street to a space at West Main Mall, in a space that used to be Grant City and later JCPenney. This store only operated as Jewel/Osco for a short time, then became Harding's. West Main was then partially demolished in the 1990s for a Hills store that only lasted a year or two and became Menards. (The mall's other anchor was Zayre, originally a Federal's.) When the mall was finally fully demolished in the 2000s, Harding's and MC Sports moved into the former Hills, and Kohl's moved in to the former Grant's/Penney's/Jewel-Osco/Harding's space. Here is what that building looks like now.
Here is a Loopnet listing of a former Jewel food store in Battle Creek that's now a combination Felpasch Food Center and ACE Hardware (there's a mix).
Here is an image of the former Jewel/Osco on Westnedge Ave. in Portage. The whole building is now a Harding's.
And here is a former Jewel in Benton Harbor on Napier Avenue, still vacant.
Finally, here is a mystery building in Grand Rapids on 28th St. SW. I think it used to be a Jewel, given that the small behind it was once anchored by Turn Style. I can't see Jewel as having been in the TurnStyle building, as the mall itself had a Kroger for a long time.
Does anyone know of any other Jewel stores in Michigan?
412 Howard St., Kalamazoo is now a Harding's. Looks to be a fairly big store.
When Maple Hill Mall first opened, it had a Jewel/Turn Style combo attached to the mall but not accessible from within until the west anchor closed and was divided among mall stores. Meijer opened a Meijer Square store (just a discount, no grocery) in the former Turn Style space. After Meijer moved out of this space, the former Meijer and Jewel buildings became Target, which they are to this day. Sometime in the early 1990s, Jewel moved across the street to a space at West Main Mall, in a space that used to be Grant City and later JCPenney. This store only operated as Jewel/Osco for a short time, then became Harding's. West Main was then partially demolished in the 1990s for a Hills store that only lasted a year or two and became Menards. (The mall's other anchor was Zayre, originally a Federal's.) When the mall was finally fully demolished in the 2000s, Harding's and MC Sports moved into the former Hills, and Kohl's moved in to the former Grant's/Penney's/Jewel-Osco/Harding's space. Here is what that building looks like now.
Here is a Loopnet listing of a former Jewel food store in Battle Creek that's now a combination Felpasch Food Center and ACE Hardware (there's a mix).
Here is an image of the former Jewel/Osco on Westnedge Ave. in Portage. The whole building is now a Harding's.
And here is a former Jewel in Benton Harbor on Napier Avenue, still vacant.
Finally, here is a mystery building in Grand Rapids on 28th St. SW. I think it used to be a Jewel, given that the small behind it was once anchored by Turn Style. I can't see Jewel as having been in the TurnStyle building, as the mall itself had a Kroger for a long time.
Does anyone know of any other Jewel stores in Michigan?