Courtland Center

Courtland Center is an enclosed mall located in the city of Burton, Michigan, United States. Currently managed by Tucker Development, Courtland Center features over eighty stores, a movie theatre, and a food court. The mall's current anchor stores include JCPenney, Dunham's Sports, Staples, and Jo-Ann Fabrics Superstore. Currently, Courtland Center is undergoing renovations

Timeline
*1968: Eastland Mall opens to the public. At the time, the center features three anchor stores. Discount retailer Woolco is on the eastern end, with two local department stores -- Federal and The Fair -- as the central and western anchors, respectively. At the time, the mall building also includes both A&P and Kroger supermarkets.
*1969: Eastland Mall Theaters, a single-screen movie theater, opens.
*early 1970s: A & P and Kroger close; the former A & P is soon converted to Jo-Ann Fabrics.
*late 1970s: Federal Department Store closes all stores; their store at Eastland briefly operates as a branch of Chicago-based discount chain Robert Hall Village, before being converted to J. C. Penney.
*1981: Plitt Theaters acquires the Eastland Mall Theaters, splitting the complex into two smaller screens.
*1982-1983: Woolco declares bankruptcy, closing all stores. Detroit, Michigan-based chain Crowley's replaces half of the former Woolco space, with the remainder being divided for smaller mall stores.
*mid-1980s: The Fair Store closes.
*1987: The mall is renovated and renamed. A contest is held to devise a new name, with "Courtland Center" being the winning entry. Reflecting the mall's name change, the theaters are also renamed Courtland Center Cinemas, adding one of Mervyn's first locations in Michigan vacated by The Fair.
*1988: National Amusements closes the Courtland Center Cinemas.
*mid-1990s?: J. C. Penney moves its home goods and intimate apparel departments into two separate storefronts. The Home Store replaces a former Perry Drug store.
*1996: Silver Cinemas reopens and renovates the theater complex, expanding it to a total of six screens. Now re-named Silver Cinemas, the theater becomes the first complex in the Flint area to feature all stadium seating. Later in the year, National Amusements re-acquires the theater complex, reverting its name to Courtland Center Cinemas.
*1999: Crowley's closes.
*2000: Old Navy opens in half of the old Crowley's, leaving the remainder vacant.
*2004: Old Navy moves into the Mervyns wing, abandoning its old store.
*2005: Jo-Ann Fabrics Superstore opens in a portion of the former Crowley's space. The existing Jo-Ann Fabrics store is abandoned.
*2006: Dunham's Sports and Staples move from nearby strip centers, filling in the rest of the mall's eastern anchor space. Staples claims the former Old Navy space, while Dunham's replaces a series of smaller mall shops.
*Spring 2006: Mervyns closes all Michigan stores.
*June 2007: Plans are announced that JCPenney will be moving to the former Mervyns space, which will be expanded further into the mall to create a store. The home and intimate apparel departments will be moved from separate storefronts into the newly-built store, which will open in March 2008.
*September 21, 2007: A fire breaks out at the former Mervyns building while it is being renovated for use by JCPenney. The mall and two neighboring businesses are evacuated.

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