J.L. Hudson Department Store (Detroit, Michigan)

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Hudson's, or The J.L. Hudson Company, was a major retail department store chain based in Detroit. This was their flagship, the tallest department store in the world in 1961 (after numerous expansions over the first half of the 20th century) and claimed to be the second largest department store in the U.S. in terms of square footage (behind Macy's in New York City). In 1969, Dayton Dry Goods acquired the company, forming Dayton-Hudson Corporation, though Hudson's continued to have major offices here. A

s demographic changes eroded the downtown shopping environment and customers flocked to the suburban stores (starting with Northland Center's Hudson's in 1954), the store was shut down in January 17, 1983, with offices being phased out by 1986. In 1989 the abandoned building was sold, and it all came down on October 24, 1998.

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Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson's_Detroit
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Coordinates:   42°20'1"N   83°2'51"W

Comments

  • Quicken Loans plans on building a new skyscraper here and moving their headquaters, I think.
  • The implosion and rubble of the former J.L. Hudson's department store can only serve as a painful reminder to everyone of Detroit's struggling economic standards. While the retail home mortgage company Quicken Loans has plans for the redevelopment of the property to become their new headquarters, it just can't cover up the scaving mark of what was once Detroit's historical past.
  • http://departmentstoremuseum.blogspot.com/2010/05/j-l-hudson-co-detroit-michigan.html A great resource of the old days of Hudson's. http://www.mlive.com/business/detroit/index.ssf/2009/07/quicken_loans_hopes_to_build_d.html An article on the Quicken building, used as a reference.
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