Woodward Corners

Woodward Corners (Formerly Northwood Shopping Center) is a shopping center located in Royal Oak, MI. The shopping center is currently anchored By a Meijer concept store Called Woodward Corner Market.
== History ==
The Northwood Shopping center, located at the southwest corner of Woodward Ave., and 13 Mile Rd, would open in 1954. Original Tenants were a Kroger supermarket, a JCPenney dry goods, Cunningham Drugs, Woolworth, and Winkelman's Clothing. For many years, the shopping center didn't see many changes, but in 1982, Beaumont Hospital would purchase the strip mall. Northwood would be renovated in 1990, Which saw some new tenants such as a Dunham's Sporting Goods, as well as Office Depot and Party City replacing the JCPenney. 
Over time, Beaumont would gradually take over the shopping center. In 2002, Rite Aid Closed, and the building would be replaced by a daycare. Safety City, USA, an educational storefront, would also open. It was around this time that Beaumont would announce its first plans for redevelopment of the aging strip mall. In 2012, several storefronts would be gutted for offices. 
By April 2016, fueled by Kroger's new Marketplace in 12 Mile and Stephenson Highway, Beaumont announced that it had officially submitted redevelopment plans for a new shopping center on the site. The development, Prospectively named Woodward Corners, would feature a 5 story hotel and a new grocery store. The shopping center, a Firestone Auto, and twenty-eight townhouses behind the mall would be razed for the new development. By the summer, the offices would be abandoned and what tenants were left (the Office Depot, Party City, Dunham's) and several smaller stores closed up shop as their leases were terminated. The final tenant, the daycare, would close on February 3, 2017. By that time, demolition was well underway on the center. and the lot was cleared by Spring. 
Construction would begin on Woodward corners in the fall. The first tenant -Wahlburger's- would open in August 2019. On January 29, 2020 Meijer would unveil its Woodward Corner Market, an experimental store catering to fresh foods and a plastic bag free environment. The store is the second of the experimental markets Meijer plans to open. New tenants would continue to open at the shopping center throughout 2020.
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