Talk:Lakeside Mall

Some Information is not correct
Lakeside Mall was opened in 1976, not 1978. Ref: At the time of its construction, it was one of the largest enclosed shopping centers in the United States and the largest in Michigan. Acehunter (talk) 05:27, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

List of Stores
Not to be too anal-retentive, but should this article contain a list of current stores? Given that many seem to open and close each week, would it not make more sense to insert a link (if available) to the Lakeside website where the mall itself updates its facilities? Comments welcome. Jtmichcock 17:29, 8 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Should it also list major former locations like the old UA theater that fye ate? Somewhere there could be a mention of the ice rink that became the "hydrotube" waterslide that became a two level Tilt arcade then was all trashed to become the food court.  There used to be restaurants scattered throughout the mall. Now you have the generic food court.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.185.84.11 (talk) 04:13, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Why does this mall deserve an article?
I'm not entirely certain why this particular shopping mall deserves a Wikipedia article. It sounds like a nice mall, but also a generic one. The number and type of stores in the mall seem pretty typical of the country in general. Even the name is really generic - there must be dozens of malls named "Lakeside Mall" in the United States. Why does this one get its own article? If someone more familiar with this mall can give me a good reason to show that it in particular deserves an article, I'm listing it on AfD. All the other articles on malls I've seen involve a mall that's the biggest at something in some place or had something famous or noteworthy happen in them; even those articles don't list every single store in the mall. Rhesusman 02:57, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Some of us are trying to sort out such issues at User:Youngamerican/Indoor shopping malls.  young  american  (talk) 14:07, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I say leave this mall page in for the sake of completion. My eventual goal is to get Wiki pages on all the malls in Michigan. TenPoundHammer 15:13, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
 * It might help if there was some more information unique about this mall. In light of the demographic changes that were going on in the metro area when this mall was built, the fact that buses from the inner city weren't allowed is certainly something worth mentioning and not something that every mall does.  I lived near the mall when it first opened and remember there being some controversy about the name since the lake the developer promised didn't appear.  If I remember correctly, it wasn't until three or four years after the mall opened that they finally built the current man made lake (which appears to be smaller than the actual mall).  I don't have any references for that or I'd add it to the article myself.  Perhaps someone can go to the library and look at the local papers from opening day. AubieTurtle 16:16, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I thought all those "lakes" around the mall were actually part of the failed canal that was supposed to be dug across to Lake Michigan in 1882.
 * The mention of the busing controversy is the only reason I've not brought this to AfD. Other than that there is really nothing to set this Mall apart as an important WP:LOCAL site.  I do remember that being at least a minorly notable story when it happened though.--Isotope23 20:07, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

This mall is a major shopping center. Let's have some photos Thomas Paine1776 19:13, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

History of Major "storefronts"?
Would it be worth mentioning that the mall previously had a Movie theater and in one location an ice rink, replaced with an indoor water slide, to be replaced with a two story arcade? These were some pretty major locations in the mall that have been removed.