Oakland Mall on John R Road in Troy, Michigan, in the northern Oakland County suburban corridor north of Detroit, serves the Troy, Madison Heights, and Warren residential community as a community retail and entertainment destination whose specialty entertainment, accessible fashion, and independent vendor market reflect the diverse suburban household of the southeast Michigan metropolitan area. The property’s open format and accessible price positioning give it a community retail character serving the practical daily-needs and specialty purchasing occasions of the Troy and Madison Heights household that the larger super-regional mall format of nearby Somerset Collection does not address at equivalent community scale. H&M and SNIPES give the property accessible fast fashion and urban streetwear identities on the fashion floor.
Sparks Pinball and Sparks Passport Arcade give the property a specialty pinball and arcade entertainment identity for the collector and gaming enthusiast household. Gashapon Bandai Official Shop gives the property a Japanese anime merchandise and capsule toy identity. The property’s concentration of independent retailers, kiosks, and specialty vendors gives the property a community market character whose local commercial variety serves the diverse Troy and Madison Heights residential household’s specialty and niche purchasing occasions. Retro Fit gives the property a vintage athletic and lifestyle streetwear identity. The John R Road corridor position gives the property access to the northern Detroit suburban household whose commercial catchment the property has historically served in the northern Oakland County retail corridor.
The property’s commercial role in northern metro Detroit is the Troy John R Road community mall: an accessible fashion, streetwear, and specialty entertainment retail center whose Sparks Arcade and Gashapon Bandai entertainment identity, independent vendor market character, and Oakland County northern suburban household catchment give the Troy, Madison Heights, and Warren household a community retail and specialty entertainment destination in the northern Detroit metropolitan corridor.
