Demolition - the Walls Come Tumbling Down

And so began the massive urban renewal project in downtown Muskegon. New roads were built, such as the Terrace Street extension, and other roads were basically eliminated, such as Market Street.This picture shows the construction of the Terrace Street extension. Businesses shown in this picture were on Market street. Al Peri Furniture's, J.C. Penny's, were both torn down for the road improvements.

  This picture above shows Terrace street facing northwest. The new Sear's Roebuck will rise on this spot and be one of two anchor stores.

This view actually looks west up Western Avenue. Infrastructure such as roads, new sewer lines, and other necessary changes were made to the downtown before the actual construction began.

 Construction for one of the entrances to the mall are being poured. This will actually be were the mall office is located. . This final picture shows the mall construction, a view towards the west end of the mall.

This is the view from Sear's towards Steekee's If you look closely you can see people still going about there business, especially at Walgreen's. In my next post I will show more pictures of the demolition to include the Occidental Hotel, and never before seen pictures of the downtown before demolition.