The end is drawing near for all but one of the remaining Macy’s department stores in Macomb and Oakland counties.
More than 200 employees will receive layoff notices when Macy’s shuts down for good next month at Lakeside and Oakland malls. The Lakeside Mall location in Sterling Heights has 117 workers and Oakland Mall in Troy has 92 employees.
The workers will find themselves out of a job between March 18 and March 31, according to two WARN notices filed with the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity.
Job losses are permanent and none of the employees are represented by a union, according to Allison Johnson, vice president of human resources for Macy’s.
“Macy’s colleagues have no bumping rights,” Johnson said in the WARN notice. “Should an employee be re-hired by Macy’s at a later date, service date, pay rate and benefits will be in accordance with then-existing policies and practices.”
The development was first reported by Crain’s Detroit.
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The job eliminations follow a Jan. 9 announcement by Macy’s Inc. to close five department stores in Michigan as part of 66 stores nationwide it plans to close this year. It commenced going-out-of-business sales that the company said would run eight to 12 weeks.
The Michigan stores include the Lakeside Mall men’s and women’s stores, the Oakland Mall location, Genesee Valley Center near Flint and Grand Traverse Mall near Traverse City. The Macy’s stores in Sterling Heights remained open when the rest of the mall closed this past July and had previously been envisioned as remaining through a proposed $1 billion redevelopment of the property.
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The Lakeside and Oakland mall locations were on a list of 66 “underproductive” stores set to close in 2025.
According to its website, the retailer said the plan is designed to return the company to sustainable, profitable sales growth that includes closing approximately 150 stores over a three-year period, while investing in its 350 remaining Macy’s locations through fiscal 2026
That leaves five Macy’s left in southeast Michigan, including Briarwood Mall in Ann Arbor, Somerset Collection in Troy, Fairlane Town Center in Dearborn, Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi and Southland Center in Taylor.
Macy’s department store was expected to remain on as part of the shuttered Lakeside Mall as it transitions into a years-long massive $1 billion redevelopment plan. The purchase of the Sterling Heights Macy’s was being made possible with the support of the grant that Out of the Box Ventures received in 2024 from the City of Sterling Heights.
The company said they were “in a sale-and-lease back agreement” with Macy’s, a spokesperson for Allison Greenfield, chief development officer at Lionheart Capital, a Miami-based retail subsidiary of Out of the Box Ventures, which owns the shopping center, said.
Developers plan to demolish much of the existing mall and create a Town Center, consisting of new offices, apartments, retail space, a 120-room hotel with attached parking deck, restaurants, recreational amenities, and more along Hall Road (M-59).
The company has not commented on why the Lakeside Macy’s was closed.
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