AMC Forum 30 movie theater, Sterling Heights. Two new car dealerships have opened on the east end of the highway, while new housing and offices also have popped up. Traffic has increased on M-59 between 1992 and 1998, the most recent year the state took a traffic count. An average of 51,000 motorists used the highway each day between Mound and Interstate 94 in 1992. Six years later, the number was up to 79,000 cars each a day, according to the Michigan Department of Transportation.
Construction begins within weeks.
The most recent addition to the retail landscape on M-59 is the new Hudson's Men's and Home Store at Lakeside Mall, which occupies the former Crowley's site in Sterling Heights. That expansion adds nearly 115,000 square feet of shopping space for Hudson's at the mall. But Debbie Sifford of Washington Township says the area already has enough stores. For Macomb Township resident Diane Kraemer, the retail building boom has given her a large amount of convenience, but also quite a few headaches. We like open space, land and trees.