Lincoln Park Shopping Center is a strip mall located at the corner of Southfield Road and Dix Highway, mostly in Lincoln Park, Michigan, though a portion containing a former Farmer Jack supermarket and a former Wendy's restaurant lies in neighboring Allen Park. Completed by 1957, it was one of the first large-scale strip complexes in the Downriver Detroit suburbs prior to the 1970 opening of Southland Center.HistoryConstruction, opening and heydayThe city of Lincoln Park already had a large-scale strip development within its boundaries, Lincoln Park Plaza, which opened in 1955 at Fort Street and Emmons Boulevard. However, it was the Lincoln Park Shopping Center that prominently placed Lincoln Park in a position of serving the community for many years to come.Construction began in 1955 and the first store, Sears, opened in 1956. This was followed shortly thereafter by a Kroger supermarket. In early 1957, the strip mall itself held its official grand opening with a parade of elephants on Dix Highway. Among other original tenants were a Kresge dime store and a Cunningham drug store.
