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Fort Saginaw Mall

From the authors' mapRedevelopedRegreenedPartly retrofittedBuena Vista, MI

Partial Redeveloped · Regreened in 2010. · from the fields below

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Finance and pipeline
On FacebookThis site: …https://www.facebook.com/138422409515132 overture · all sites with this
Website aliveThis site: …http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Saginaw_Mall overture / http check · all sites with this
Place
15-minute neighbourhood (5+ of 6 daily needs within 800 m)This site: 5/6 openstreetmap · all sites with this
30,000+ vehicles a day on an adjacent roadThis site: 73,052 on 75 fhwa-hpms · all sites with this
County lost 10%+ of retail establishments since 2012This site: -14% census-cbp · all sites with this
Grocery within 800 mThis site: 2 stores openstreetmap · all sites with this
High social vulnerability tract (SVI ≥ 0.75)This site: 0.93 cdc-svi · all sites with this
Interstate or freeway within 600 mThis site: 75 fhwa-hpms · all sites with this
Lower-income tract (< $50k)This site: $46,497 census-acs · all sites with this
Opportunity ZoneThis site: 26145011000 hud-oz · all sites with this
Shrinking countyThis site: -1.9% census-acs · all sites with this
Strategy
RedevelopedThis site: Partial regreening, park Partial redevelopment, civic arcgis-webmap · all sites with this
RegreenedThis site: Partial regreening, park Partial redevelopment, civic arcgis-webmap · all sites with this
New use
Civic and governmentThis site: Partial regreening, park Partial redevelopment, civic arcgis-webmap · all sites with this
Park and open spaceThis site: Partial regreening, park Partial redevelopment, civic arcgis-webmap · all sites with this

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From the authors' map

MI, Buena Vista: Fort Saginaw Mall, Buena Vista Town Center, 2010
• Partial regreening, park
• Partial redevelopment, civic

Now

StatusPartly retrofittedauthors' map
StrategyPartial Redeveloped · Regreenedauthors' map
What is there nowPartial regreening, park Partial redevelopment, civicauthors' map
Retrofit year2010authors' map

Site context

FEMA flood zoneno NFHL polygon at point (unmapped or outside coverage)FEMA NFHL
EPA-regulated facilities within 500 m6: BUENA VISTA TWP MS4-SAGINAW; CENTRAL METALLIZING; SAGINAW BUSINESS INC; SPEEDWAY 2321-SAGINAW; SPEEDWAY SUPERAMERICA LLCEPA FRS
Census tract 261450110023,102 people, 1,053 per sq mi; median household income $46,497; median gross rent $969; 27% renters; 19.2% vacant units; 0.0% commute by transitACS 2023 5-year
Within a 10–15 minute walk (800 m)5 of 6 daily needs: 2 grocers, 2 schools, 3 parks or playgrounds, 0 health, 2 civic, 9 food and drink; 0 cycleway segments, 21 sidewalk-tagged segmentsOpenStreetMap
Opportunity Zoneyes, tract 26145011000 (rural)HUD
Housing permits, Saginaw County (MI), 20240 units in 5+ unit buildings, 20 in 2–4, 121 single-family; 2023: 0 in 5+Census BPS
Social vulnerability (CDC SVI 2022, tract)overall percentile 0.93; socioeconomic 0.83; housing and transport 0.58; 61% below 150% of poverty; 20% of households with no vehicleCDC/ATSDR
Other atlas sites nearby0 within 10 km, 1 within 25 kmcomputed
Overture Mapsplace Fort Saginaw Mall (shopping_mall, confidence 0.51, from Overture, meta); building footprint 4,241 m², 6.381612777709961 mOverture (CDLA-Permissive 2.0)
Website and socialen.wikipedia.org (alive) · social: facebookOverture / Internet Archive
Attention: Wikipedia page views17,473 since 2015; 1,542 in the last 12 months (+28% vs the prior 12); peak 2019-05 with 216Wikimedia
Tract change 2013–2023tract boundary changed between the 2010 and 2020 census; no 2013 comparisonCensus ACS
Natural hazard risk (FEMA National Risk Index, tract)relatively low overall (score 41.4); expected annual loss $987,235; high: strong wind, winter weather; community resilience very highFEMA NRI
Tax-credit housing within 1 kmnoneHUD LIHTC
Food access (USDA FARA 2019, 2010 tract)low-income, low-access tract (1 mile urban / 10 miles rural); 33% of residents more than 1 mile from a supermarket; poverty rate 32.7%; median family income $36,490; 1,213 SNAP householdsUSDA ERS
SchoolsSaginaw City School District (PK-12); 1 public school within 1 mile: Jessie Loomis SchoolNCES EDGE
Elevation606 ft above sea level at the site pointUSGS 3DEP
Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 2023749 establishments (-14%); 12,166 jobs (-3%)Census CBP
Housing market in the countytypical home value $175,096 (+5% 1 yr, +42% 5 yr); typical rent $1,055/mo (+8% 1 yr), 2026-09Zillow Research
Traffic on the busiest road within 600 m (2024)73,052 vehicles a day on 75 (Interstate, 8 lanes); 7,525 trucks; 31 counted segmentsFHWA HPMS

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History and original facts

Now called / also known asBuena Vista Town Center
CountySaginaw County
Census division3 · East North Central

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Background

Fort Saginaw Mall was an enclosed shopping mall located in Buena Vista Township, just outside the city of Saginaw, Michigan, United States. Opened in 1966, the mall served as Saginaw's only enclosed mall until Fashion Square Mall opened on the other end of town in 1972. Fort Saginaw Mall had become a dead mall by the 1980s, as many of its stores had closed. By the end of the 1990s, the entire mall was closed off, except for an attached Kmart which remained open until May 2004.

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Timeline

  1. 2010 Retrofit: redevelop, regreen

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