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[[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.<ref>Pfankuchen, David. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/53474909/the-journal-times/ "Business Bits"], [[Racine Journal Times]], March 25, 1985, page 5B.</ref> The branch opened in December 1985.<ref>Pfankuchen, David. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/53513242/the-journal-times/ "Business Today: M&I Opens Branch"], [[Racine Journal Times]], December 18, 1985, page 5B.</ref> In January 1989, it was reported that [[MSI General Corporation (Oconomowoc, Wisconsin)|MSI General Corporation]] was planning to develop a shopping center around the M&I Bank branch, which was to include a [[Kohl's Food Stores|Kohl's Sav-a-Center]] supermarket.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/53474959/the-journal-times/ "Kohl's plans to build new Caledonia store"], [[Racine Journal Times]], January 14, 1989, page 3A.</ref> Kohl's ultimately opened Kohl's Food Emporium, a {{convert|31500|sqft|m2|adj=on}} supermarket advertised as "the first of its kind in the Kohl's chain", on May 20, 1990.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/53475144/the-journal-times/ "New Kohl's, new service"], [[Racine Journal Times]], May 18, 1990, page 6B.</ref> 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.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/53475178/the-journal-times/ "Taking shape"], [[Racine Journal Times]], August 7, 1990, page 10A.</ref> 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.<ref>Merisalo, Laura J. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/53475234/the-journal-times/ "K mart under construction"], [[Racine Journal Times]], September 20, 1990, page 10A.</ref>
[[Kmart 3851|Kmart #3851]] opened at Greentree Centre on May 20, 1991, with a grand opening ceremony on May 23.<ref>Holley, Paul J. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/53498166/the-journal-times/ "It's the 'blue light special': New and improved Kmart to open Monday in Caledonia"], [[Racine Journal Times]], May 18, 1991, page 3A.</ref> 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.<ref>Daykin, Tom. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/53514675/the-journal-times/ "Greentree almost full"], [[Racine Journal Times]], August 16, 1991, page 1D.</ref> An outlying building was built in 1993 to house a [[Blockbuster Video]] store, [[Blockbuster 55008|Blockbuster #55008]].<ref>Holley, Paul J. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/53511709/the-journal-times/ "WBBM demand may force Chicago station from cable: Busy in Caledonia"], [[Racine Journal Times]], August 15, 1993, page 6A.</ref> Another outlying building was built for [[McDonald's 15445|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.<ref name=walgreens-2000/> [[All Saints Medical Group (Racine, Wisconsin)|All Saints Medical Group]] opened a clinic along 4 Mile Road in the center in May 1999,<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/53533088/the-journal-times/ Advertisement], [[Racine Journal Times]], March 30, 1999, page 18.</ref> 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.<ref name=walgreens-2000>Burke, Michael. [https://journaltimes.com/news/local/business-matters-planned-walgreens-move-getting-complicated/article_6d990154-526b-527f-b6fa-7b0a3da8d18e.html "Business Matters: Planned Walgreens move getting complicated"], [[Racine Journal Times]], June 4, 2000.</ref> M&I's new building, directly east of its former location along 4 Mile Road, held a grand opening beginning on July 2, 2001.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/53530281/the-journal-times/ Advertisement], [[Racine Journal Times]], June 17, 2001, page 5D.</ref> 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.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/53517383/the-journal-times/ "In Brief: Walgreens store getting new location"], [[Racine Journal Times]], March 13, 2002, page 8A.</ref> Kohl's Food Stores closed all three of its Racine locations in August 2003,<ref>Burke, Michael. [https://journaltimes.com/news/local/kohls-grocery-stores-to-close/article_01bff45a-a608-5211-8377-d48dceaf2a65.html "Kohl's grocery stores to close"], [[Racine Journal Times]], June 14, 2003.</ref> and the Greentree Centre location was replaced by [[Pick 'n Save 378|a Pick 'n Save supermarket]], which opened on December 2, 2003. A Racine County assistant district attorney told the [[Racine Journal Times]] that she would prefer to shop at the new store, where she would be less likely to encounter people she had previously prosecuted than at the [[Rapids Plaza (Racine, Wisconsin)|Rapids Plaza]] Pick 'n Save.<ref>Burke, Mick. [https://journaltimes.com/local/business/pick-n-save-opens-in-caledonia/article_8d562e17-a89f-5b44-a2fb-75fde7c0ffc9.html "Pick 'n Save opens in Caledonia"], [[Racine Journal Times]], December 3, 2003.</ref>
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.<ref>Burke, Michael. [https://journaltimes.com/local/columns/housing-cluster-aims-to-bless-gideon-area/article_e7a91dfd-cd4f-523c-ba91-8b47f4019025.html "Housing cluster aims to bless Gideon area"], [[Racine Journal Times]], March 16, 2005.</ref> 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.<ref>Burke, Michael. [https://journaltimes.com/local/business/diner-has-retro-look-and-solid-gold-menu/article_fc6f87f7-c5f5-5de1-83d0-c6a79fd0610e.html "Diner has retro look and solid-gold menu"], [[Racine Journal Times]], March 7, 2007.</ref>
The center's Blockbuster Video location, the last in Racine County, abruptly closed in July 2011.<ref>Burke, Michael. [https://journaltimes.com/news/local/blockbuster-closes-last-racine-store/article_8f18c48c-b317-11e0-8835-001cc4c002e0.html "Blockbuster closes last Racine store"], [[Racine Journal Times]], July 20, 2011.</ref> 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.<ref>Lieffring, Christina. [https://journaltimes.com/business/local/former-blockbuster-site-getting-into-spirit-of-the-season/article_c209a929-5190-5f71-8c82-0da3b1225d5e.html "Former Blockbuster site getting into spirit of the season"], [[Racine Journal Times]], October 3, 2017.</ref>
The Kmart store closed on December 15, 2019, leaving the center's primary anchor space vacant.
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===5055 Douglas Avenue===
*[[Blockbuster 55008|Blockbuster Video #55008]], opened 1993, closed July 2011
*[[Spirit Halloween]], seasonal operation in autumn 2017
*[[U.S. Cellular]], opened June 2020
===5111 Douglas Avenue===
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