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December 2023 by Fazbear G.
This mall still has what we need here in Michigan. An indoor space to shop, walk, eat and spend time.Outdoor malls don't make sense here with our winters and not everyone likes to online shop for clothes then spend time making returns. Better to just spend an afternoon trying things on and looking at new things. The outdoor mall down the street that the stores left Lakeside for is now failing in many ways. They need to just come on back to Lakeside. New moms with strollers can walk around the mall as something to do and buy a little something here and there. Teenagers needing somewhere to go to hang away from their parents can get a pretzel and make TikTok's in the lounge areas. The right kinds of shops will generate more money. Watch what people are into. Please don't close the mall!
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September 2023 by Karen N.
You were the belle of the ball in 1976. Nothing compared to you. When everyone else was a one story mall, you rose to the occasion with 2 floors. You were always busy and Christmas shopping was a nightmare. I came back to visit you and see that the gum balls have lost their luster. The fountain has dried up and the new age glass elevator lost its lights. To those that have looked down on this mega star, she was once 5 star quality. This Grizabella Glamour Cat deserves some respect. And, those sunken in leather couches. If they could talk. Maybe someone will remember what I do and breath some life back into the ole girl.
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July 2023 by Jane J.
The shopping kind of sucks now. Only worth going for the Macy's there. Used to be really good but has gone downhill.
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March 2023 by Jim O.
Perhaps a good place for ghost town for Halloween. How can an alleged major mall have so many closed down elevators and escalators? Only reason for myself to be here was an online exchange at a kids store. At least 70 percent of stores are empty. How do they even stay open?
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March 2023 by Kevin J.
Back in the 80s and early 90s this was the preeminent mall in the northeastern area of the Detroit metropolitan area. I always thought the mall craze was overblown but pre-Somerset, pre-Partridge Creek Lakeside was the bee's knees for what it was. Now it's just a shadow of its former self, the modernist Taubman architecture and once aggressively cheery storefronts gone bare taunting its own past self. There are deader malls around but the size of this place exposes the weakness of the whole mall concept in 2023. Two missing anchors about kill each of those wings. Macy's is doing double duty with two stores, almost as a public service to help disguise the sorry state of affairs here. Never mind the man behind that curtain! I was last here during the holiday season last year when I was in the area and decided I needed to get my mom a bag of fancy lotions and bubble baths and whatever else girly stuff they put in those stylized, feminine bags. Every mall has a Bath and Body Works or it's equivalent, right? It's automatic; one of the only mall stores guaranteed to thrive in these increasingly post-mall times. Not Lakeside! I looked around before giving up and consulting the store directory where it was listed. Found the spot and there was the roll down door permanently closed with the sad halo tattoo of where the letters that spelled out the store name used to be. I don't even know if it was a recent closure or if they only update the directory infrequently and maybe wanna make the place look more viable than it is. They're supposed to be redoing this place into more of a mixed use development with the mall part downsized so it looks less like a kid wearing oversized hand me downs. I can't remember exactly and it might change anyway. Suffice it to say ol Lakeside has seen better days.
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February 2023 by Hunter H.
Lots of stores, cleanliness is ok. Sometimes food left on floors in hallways. Mall cops always on patrol. Stores are pleasant
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December 2022 by Stacy K.
I am very sad to see what happened to this mall. It is a victim of circumstance and current shopping trends. You can see it was once a great mall with a lot of space. Not it is a skeletal reminder of the great mall of the 80's. There are mostly empty spaces with two and a half restaurants left at the food court. They have a beautiful merry-go-round that seems abandoned. An empty bounce house place, an empty ice skating rink, so many empty spaces. The store they have left are really good ones, but on a holiday, we were practically the only ones there with a handful of other shoppers. I believe they have plans to knock down this mall and build something new. I am for that if they actually go through with the plans and not just leave a broken empty blighted space. I do really enjoy all of the restaurants located outside the mall, so I hope they preserve that space. I like Shake Shack, Kimchi , Box, Portillo's, Chuck E Cheese, to name a few places we like to eat. Since they have a couple unique stores, I bet the kids will want to return anyway.
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August 2022 by Gabrielle H.
This is a great store. Super nice people, very friendly. Kind of like a one stop shop. They have body jewelry for $1.00! What! DVD's, Anime stuff, phone accessories, collectibles, apple watch bands and so much more. Gotta go check it out.
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March 2021 by Sunshine V.
It's a pretty big mall that is not overcrowded during the pandemic and limits people inside some stores. The employees in the stores I went into, they were all friendly and professional. I will most likely be back to shop again. If you want something good to eat while here, visit the Chinese restaurant where the the food cafeteria is. I don't remember the exact name of it but I'm sure it's the only Chinese restaurant there open. There crab/cheese rangoon is good too.
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February 2021 by Nicole E.
This is a decent mall. It's not fancy, but it serves its purpose. My friends from SCS used to go hang out or do some shopping here a lot. Our family went to Eastland until it became too shady and then ended up at lakeside mall for any shopping needs. It took my mom a while to get her to stop going to Eastland and driving a bit further to keep her and us safe. This is an old school mall, has the basics and more. It's similar to the Oakland mall by my house and has the similar walk ups on the second floor as Fairlane mall. I do still like walking inside the malls and having an array of stores to check out, it feels like malls are starting to disappear.
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December 2019 by Bill Wood
No escalator no elevator. Limited clothing selections.
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December 2019 by Frank Scarpelli
Great place to shop
