Greentree Centre (Caledonia, Wisconsin)
Coordinates: 42°47′12″N 87°48′30″W / 42.78671°N 87.80845°W Greentree Centre is a shopping center at the northeast corner of Douglas Avenue and 4 Mile Road in Caledonia, Wisconsin. The center's main anchor was Kmart from
History
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.[1] 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 72,900-square-foot (6,770 m2) Kmart store as well as a 26,000-square-foot (2,400 m2) supermarket. The shopping center was intended to open in fall 1980,[2] 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.[3] 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.[4] Kohl's ultimately opened Kohl's Food Emporium, a 31,500-square-foot (2,930 m2) supermarket advertised as "the first of its kind in the Kohl's chain", on May 20, 1990.[5] 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.[6] 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.[7]
References
- ↑ "Business Briefs: K mart considers 2nd site", Racine Journal Times, April 24, 1979, page 5E.
- ↑ "Option taken for 2nd K mart site", Racine Journal Times, November 9, 1979, page 1D.
- ↑ Pfankuchen, David. "Business Bits", Racine Journal Times, March 25, 1985, page 5B.
- ↑ "Kohl's plans to build new Caledonia store", Racine Journal Times, January 14, 1989, page 3A.
- ↑ "New Kohl's, new service", Racine Journal Times, May 18, 1990, page 6B.
- ↑ "Taking shape", Racine Journal Times, August 7, 1990, page 10A.
- ↑ Merisalo, Laura J. "K mart under construction", Racine Journal Times, September 20, 1990, page 10A.
External links
- Greentree Centre at OpenStreetMap