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Weird. We NEVER go through somerset. Just directionally it makes no sense fors. It is amazing how close we live to each other and given how the area is set up, how different our social cislrcles are!
Growing up it was always 12 oaks and summit mall (remember that place!?!)
I grew up way out on the east side so it was Lakeside for us. Looking at vacancy data, it appears that’s quickly becoming a ghost mall.
I work for one of the government entities right across from Summit Place Mall. I had actually never even heard of it until I started working up there back in ‘07. At that point all that was left in the mall was Macy’s, Sears, Ruby Tuesday, Mrs. Field’s Cookies, and Foot Locker. I remember going in there and wandering around during lunch one day and it was just so depressing.
The people I work with who lived up in that area called it Scummit Place Mall though I guess it was actually quite high end even into the early ‘90s.
FWIW, other than doing curbside pick up from CPK on day back in the fall, I don’t think I’ve even been inside Somerset in 3 or 4 years. Before we bought a house and had kids, we used to live in the apartments just behind the south side right outside Saks so I used to walk up there all the time. Even if I wasn’t shopping it was always a good place for people watching.
We’re almost exactly halfway between Somerset, and all the stuff at 14 and Orchard Lake and when I was doing pick-up from CPK, I would have rather gone to the one on Orchard Lake but that one had shut down at some point. I hate dealing with the traffic near Somerset and along Big Beaver (not that Orchard Lake is any better). There has been endless construction at Big Beaver and I-75 for what seems like 5 years now and it seems to tie up everything for a couple miles on each side.
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