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Residents protest plan to destroy tree older than United States
Macy’s to close at Lakeside Mall DROPPED ANCHOR NOT SLOWING REDEVELOPMENT PLANS BY DEAN VAGLIA dvaglia@candgnews.com
STERLING HEIGHTS — As the fate of a very special tree hangs in the balance, residents of Sterling Heights are speaking up. A rare chinquapin oak stands in the flood plain on the east side of Van Dyke Avenue, south of Canal Road and north of Riverland Drive. The tree is the seventh largest of its kind in Michigan, according to certifiers with the Michigan Botanical Society. Its age is estimated at nearly 270 years — older than the United States as a nation. The city of Sterling Heights sold the property to a local nonprofit, which plans to tear down the chinquapin and other trees to build an apartment complex. It would require a cut-and-fill operation, digging up wetlands so the apartments can be raised above the flood plain.
STERLING HEIGHTS — It takes a long time for stars to burn out, but they all will eventually. With its own trademark red star, Macy’s at Lakeside Mall now marches toward its own final end. On Jan. 9, the New York City-based retail titan Macy’s Inc. announced its intention to close 66 locations across the county including the anchor store at the now-dead Lakeside. The retailer expects it and the 65 other stores to be shuttered by the end of the first quarter 2025. “Closing any store is never easy, but as part of our Bold New Chapter strategy, we are closing underproductive Macy’s stores to allow us to focus our resources and prioritize investments in our go-forward stores, where customers are already responding positively to better product offerings and elevated service,” Tony Spring, chairman and chief executive officer of Macy’s, Inc., said in a press release. Macy’s closure came as no shock to Out of the Box Ventures — the mall’s owner since 2019 — and the city of Sterling Heights.
See TREE on page 12A
See MACY’S on page 6A
BY ANDY KOZLOWSKI akozlowski@candgnews.com
According to state certifiers, the tree measures 88 feet tall with a circumference of 14 feet at breast height and a crown spread of 84 1/2 feet. It was likely standing when the United States was founded.
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