Greentree Centre (Caledonia, Wisconsin)

Greentree Centre is a shopping center at the northeast corner of Douglas Avenue and 4 Mile Road in Caledonia, Wisconsin. Built between 1989 and 1991, the center's main anchor was Kmart store #3851 from 1991 to 2019. The center is also anchored by Pick 'n Save #378, which opened in 2003, replacing a Kohl's Food Emporium that had opened in 1990, and Walgreens #6243. The shopping center is connected to Parkview Gardens Assisted Living Center to the north and Crawford Park to the east.

History
The property that is now Greentree Centre was the eastern part of the Buresh family farm, as shown in property maps from 1893 and 1930.

After opening its first Racine store on the southwest side of the city in 1976, Kmart Corporation confirmed in April 1979 that it was considering opening a second location in the city. In November of that year, Kmart stated that it was working with Vestcor, a development firm based in Austin, Texas on the potential new store. Vestcor had an option on nine acres of land at the northeast corner of Douglas Avenue and 4 Mile Road in Caledonia, just north of the city of Racine, and it planned to build a shopping center on the site, which would contain a 72900 sqft Kmart store as well as a 26000 sqft supermarket. The shopping center was intended to open in fall 1980, but Vestcor's option expired without any further action.

M&I Bank purchased two acres of land on the same corner, and announced in March 1985 that it would build a bank branch at the site. The branch opened in December 1985. In January 1989, it was reported that MSI General Corporation was planning to develop a shopping center around the M&I Bank branch, which was to include a Kohl's Sav-a-Center supermarket. Kohl's ultimately opened Kohl's Food Emporium, a 31500 sqft supermarket advertised as "the first of its kind in the Kohl's chain", on May 20, 1990. Later in 1990, MSI began construction on several new retail spaces north of the Kohl's building, and the development was given the name Greentree Centre. Kmart, which had previously considered the same site for a north Racine store in 1979, announced in September 1990 that it would become the primary anchor store of Greentree Centre.

Kmart #3851 opened at Greentree Centre on May 20, 1991, with a grand opening ceremony on May 23. Businesses began to open in the eight smaller retail spaces between Kmart and Kohl's, including Walgreens on August 19, 1991, Radio Shack and Cost Cutters around the same time, and National Cleaners and Cousins Subs in September. An outlying building was built in 1993 to house a Blockbuster Video store. Another outlying building was built for McDonald's #15445, which opened February 13, 1995.

As early as 1998, Walgreens planned to move out of the strip mall and into a new building that would replace the M&I Bank branch at the corner of Douglas Avenue and 4 Mile Road. All Saints Medical Group opened a clinic along 4 Mile Road in the center in May 1999, near the site that M&I planned to move its branch to. By June 2000, MSI was actively negotiating with Walgreens and M&I, with plans to construct a new building for M&I next door to the new Walgreens. M&I's new building, directly east of its former location along 4 Mile Road, held a grand opening beginning on July 2, 2001. Walgreens' last day in the strip mall location was March 22, 2002, and the new corner building opened the following morning at 8 a.m. Kohl's Food Stores closed all three of its Racine locations in August 2003, and the Greentree Centre location was replaced by a Pick 'n Save supermarket, which opened on December 2, 2003.

The former Walgreens space in the Greentree strip mall was split into two new retail spaces, one of which was filled by a Papa Murphy's pizza shop that opened in the spring of 2005. Douglas Avenue Diner, a 1950s-themed diner, was opened by Tom and Fran Tohovitis in the other half of the former Walgreens space on March 5, 2007.

The center's Blockbuster Video location, the last in Racine County, abruptly closed in July 2011. The vacant outlying building at 5055 Douglas Avenue, which formerly housed Blockbuster, was used as the site of a temporary seasonal Spirit Halloween store in the fall of 2017. The former Blockbuster building remains vacant, but Phillips Edison & Company, the owners of Greentree Centre, split the building into three retail spaces in 2019 which remain available for lease.

The Kmart store closed on December 15, 2019, leaving the center's primary anchor space vacant.

2408 4 Mile Road

 * All Saints Medical Group, opened May 1999, acquired by Ascension Healthcare
 * Ascension All Saints Healthcare

2440 4 Mile Road

 * M&I Bank, opened July 2, 2001, acquired by BMO Harris Bank in October 2012
 * BMO Harris Bank

5005 Douglas Avenue

 * M&I Bank, opened December 1985, moved to 2440 4 Mile Road in July 2001
 * Walgreens #6243, opened March 23, 2002

5055 Douglas Avenue

 * Blockbuster Video, opened 1993, closed July 2011

5111 Douglas Avenue

 * Kohl's Food Emporium, opened May 20, 1990, closed August 2003
 * Pick 'n Save #378, opened December 2, 2003

5121 Douglas Avenue

 * Walgreens, opened August 19, 1991, moved to 5005 Douglas Avenue on March 22, 2002

Space 011

 * Papa Murphy's, opened 2005

Space 007

 * Douglas Avenue Diner, opened March 5, 2007

5125 Douglas Avenue

 * McDonald's #15445, opened February 13, 1995

Space 001

 * Nail Express

Space 002

 * Cost Cutters, opened August 1991

Space 003

 * Greentree Cleaners

Space 004

 * USA Payday Loans

Space 005

 * King's Wok

Space 006

 * Cousins Subs, opened September 1991

5133 Douglas Avenue

 * BankMutual

5141 Douglas Avenue

 * Kmart #3851, opened May 20, 1991, closed December 15, 2019