The Somerset Collection contains 1,450,000 sq ft (134,700 m 2) of gross leasable area with over 180 stores. While the Collection was temporarily shuttered due to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Chick-fil-A operated a massive 18-wheeler mobile drive-thru truck in the otherwise empty Collection parking lot near Macy's. In 2017, Zara opened its first store in Michigan on the first and second floors of the Macy's wing. In 2016, Chick-fil-A opened a location in the Peacock Cafe food court, the first location in Metro Detroit that was not at the food court of a college campus or airport. In 2012, calling it “strategic capital investments”, Saks renovated its store after it identified the Somerset location as having “high growth potential”. Although plans were approved, the project did not move forward, and no further plans were announced. In December 2009, the Forbes Company acquired an adjacent site on which an open-air mixed-use development known as the Pavilions of Troy was proposed. Mall at Millenia, in Orlando, Florida, also designed by JPRA Architects, was based on Somerset Collection and is similar in design. The Somerset Collection includes several notable sculptures, including a Finnish Sorvikivi Floating Stone fountain. The mall features lighting by Paul Gregory (Focus Lighting), a continuous skylight, glass elevators, and fountains designed by WET. In 2004, Somerset South, the original part of the Collection, was renovated. The enclosed, climate-controlled skybridge was one of the first of its kind in the country, featuring moving walks to move shoppers between Somerset Collection South and Somerset Collection North. Ĭonnecting the two malls is a 700 ft (0.21 km) enclosed bridge known as the "Skywalk" over Big Beaver Road. When Marshall Fields was converted to Macy's in 2006, Somerset became one of only three malls in the country to host all four department stores. Michigan's first Nordstrom and a Hudson's (converted to Marshall Field's and then Macy's) anchored the three-story expansion, named Somerset North. įollowing the popularity of the revamped mall, co-owners Forbes/Cohen Properties and Frankel Associates opened a new three-story $30,000,000, 940,000 sq ft expansion across from Somerset Mall on August 11, 1996, designed by JPRA Architects. Completed in August 1992, Saks was refurbish and expanded with more luxury stores, like Tiffany's, opening their doors. In 1991-1992 the center was renamed Somerset Collection, a second level was added, and Neiman Marcus opened a store on the site of the razed Bonwit Teller. īonwit Teller markedly renovated its store in 1988, only to close in 1990 after the chain went bankrupt. Miller, Abercrombie & Fitch, Mark Cross, and FAO Schwarz. Thirty five additional stores opened, including I. Redstone Associates, was built onto the existing Saks, anchored by it and a new Bonwit Teller. A one-floor upscale "Somerset Mall" designed by Louis G. In 1969, Saks Fifth Avenue opened a stand-alone store on Big Beaver Road in Troy, an affluent suburb 20 miles northwest of downtown Detroit. Somerset Collection includes many relaxing water displays throughout the mall. Out of the 100 most profitable malls, 76 are owned by real estate investment trusts. Somerset Collection, developed, managed, and co-owned by The Forbes Company, is among the most profitable malls in the United States not owned by a real estate investment trust. Somerset Collection is a superregional, luxury shopping mall, located in Metro Detroit, in Troy, Michigan with more than 180 specialty stores. Surface parking, covered parking, and valet.
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