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Signs announce the future Lakeside Town Center project as lasttime shoppers took one more look at the closing mall June 27.
LAST LOOKS AT LAKESIDE
MALL WALKERS, BUSINESS OWNERS SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS ABOUT CLOSING
BY ERIC CZARNIK eczarnik@candgnews.com
STERLING HEIGHTS — Like dozens of other people walking through Lakeside Mall June 27 –the Thursday before its last open day of June 30 and its July 1 closing date – Frank Talo was reliving his memories of growing up with the shopping center.
“The early ’80s, I spent a lot of time here –spent all my allowance and my grass-cutting money on the arcades, back-to-school shopping,” said Talo, who lives in the St. Clair Shores area.
“It’s a pretty big part of my childhood. … It’s kind of sad, you know, but it seems like online shopping … and I heard the pandemic was kind of the final nail in the coffin with a lot of malls, not just Lakeside.”
Talo blamed the COVID-19 pandemic and the popularity of online shopping for the mall’s decline and ultimate demise.
A mall in metamorphosis
Lakeside Mall originally opened in 1976, notably through the efforts of mall developer A. Alfred Taubman. But for years over the last decade, Sterling Heights officials have envisioned and have prepared for a future redevelopment of the Lakeside Mall area.
The mall’s most recent ownership, Lionheart Capital/Out of the Box Ventures, acquired the mall property in 2019. In November 2022, it presented to the Sterling Heights City Council a vision for a mixed-use Lakeside Town Center. In the mall’s place, the town center is envisioned as a billiondollar project on an estimated 110 acres of mixeduse neighborhoods, apartments, retail shops, office space, green space, a hotel, a community center and more.
That presentation originally predicted the demolition of the main mall building for sometime See LAKESIDE on page 6A
Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken redevelops former Dooley’s site
BY MARIA ALLARD allard@candgnews.com
ROSEVILLE — There is a new franchise in town, one that redeveloped a vacant building, and it promises to satisfy your appetite.
On July 11, the Eastpointe-Roseville Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon-cutting to celebrate the grand opening of Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken in Roseville.
Located at 32500 Gratiot Ave., across the street from Macomb Mall, the new eatery opened at the site of the former Dooley’s Tavern, which ceased operations after two fatal shootings in the bar in 2019 and 2022.
City administrators are pleased to see a new business on Gratiot Avenue.
“We are excited to welcome Lee’s Famous Chicken to Roseville,” Roseville City Manager Ryan Monroe said via email. “They have redeveloped that vacant building into a beautiful multi-unit property. We are grateful to them and so many other businesses that are selecting Roseville for investments.”
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The first 200 Lee’s customers in line July 11 received a free meal, courtesy of the eatery.
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‘Beauty’ of Olympic qualification goes beyond track for Utica grad
BY JONATHAN SZCZEPANIAK jszczepaniak@candgnews.com
UTICA — Every step on the track is a blessing for him.
It wasn’t long ago that 2013 Utica High School graduate Freddie Crittenden III faced the ugliest part of the relationship between athletes and their respective sports — deciding when it’s time to call it a career.
The 2013 Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 1 state champion, four-time All-Atlantic Coast Conference honoree at Syracuse University track and field, and two-time First Team All-American in 60-meter and 110-meter hurdles in 2016 was facing obstacle after obstacle in his efforts to reach his Olympic dream.
Crittenden, 29, hyperextended his knee prior to the 2016 Olympic trials, keeping him from competing at full strength. It was a minor setback, but Crittenden picked up steam in 2019 for the 2020 Olympic trials before the COVID-19 pandemic occurred.
Another setback, but the 2021 Olympic trials were still at the center of his focus. That was before a double hamstring strain at the Doha Diamond League in Qatar left Crittenden injured and rehabbing for eight months before falling short of another Olympic qualification and struggling overseas.
“That was just a really difficult time to try and keep going,” Crittenden said. “I ended up going overseas and ran even worse, and that was when I was really considering being done. It was just a really hard eight months. When you have an injury like a hamstring, what the body does is
it tries to compensate. My healthy leg would try to take some of the load and try to get you to survive and continue, but when it’s a double hamstring it’s like, where does the compensation happen? It was a very long process of getting my body back to a point where it was able to recover, heal and function normally.”
When Crittenden crossed the finish of the 110-meter hurdles at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials June 28 in Eugene, Oregon, every ounce of blood, sweat and tears seemed well spent as he punched his ticket for the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
Crittenden finished second with a time of 12.93 while Adidas’ Grant Holloway finished first with a 12.83 and Nike’s Daniel Roberts took third with a 12.96, marking the first time in Olympic trials history that three runners finished sub-13 seconds.
Qualifying for the Olympics along with his close friend Roberts was a dream come true, but unfortunately for Crittenden, finishing behind Holloway was a bit of a bitter taste again from his time at Syracuse.
“I’ve been racing Grant since 2016,” Crittenden said. “I remember the 2016 Indoor NCAA Championships at Texas A&M, I thought that was going to be my NCAA title, but the young Grant Holloway came in and showed everybody how to do it.”
Crittenden, who lives in Phoenix, runs for Phoenix Track Club. He said there’s too many people to thank for helping him continue his track career, but credited the sup-
See CRITTENDEN on page 5A
Olympic qualification a ‘big relief’ for Grosse Pointe South grad Sorin Koszyk
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BY JONATHAN SZCZEPANIAK jszczepaniak@candgnews.com
GROSSE POINTE PARK — For Grosse Pointe Park native Sorin Koszyk, an Olympic qualification was more of a ‘when’ rather than an ‘if.’
Teamed up with Florida native Ben Davison, who rowed collegiately at Washington University, Koszyk knew an Olympic bid was at the edge of their oars.
A 13th place finish at the 2023 World Championships, two spots shy of an Olympic qualification, may have been a cloud over the duo’s head for a moment, but it set the table for a photo finish at the 2024 World Rowing Final Olympic & Paralympic Qualification Regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Motivated by the missed opportunity months ago, Koszyk and Davison placed first in the men’s double sculls final to punch their ticket to the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
“I think we were just pretty relieved that we qualified,” Koszyk said. “We missed the qualification mark at Worlds in September, so we’ve just had that sitting over our
See KOSZYK on page 10A
LEFT: A 2013 Utica High School graduate, Freddie Crittenden was a Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 1 state champion in the 110-meter hurdles for Utica in 2013.
ABOVE: Freddie Crittenden stands with his mother, Dr. Cassandra Crittenden, and father, Freddie Crittenden.
Photos provided by Dr. Cassandra Crittenden
California Rowing Club members Sorin Koszyk, pictured, and Ben Davison placed first in the men’s double sculls final at the 2024 World Rowing Final Olympic
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Qualification Regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland, to punch their ticket to the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
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Identity crisis no more: Macomb Community College announces new athletic logo
BY JONATHAN SZCZEPANIAK jszczepaniak@candgnews.com
MACOMB COUNTY — For those who attend or have attended Macomb Community College, the Monarch nickname never made any sense largely due to the fact that there wasn’t a logo to go along with it. What is a Monarch? Is the school actually named after butterflies?
Apparently, that was common.
“When I first heard we were the Monarchs, I didn’t really know what that meant, because there was nothing associated with it,” freshman women’s basketball player Carissa Hankins said in a press release. “We’re the Monarchs, but we’re not a butterfly. So, what are we? Nothing came to mind.”
This is an identity crisis that’s been long overdue for some answers, and Macomb Community College is finally putting the unanswered question to rest.
On July 17, Macomb Community College announced the new athletic logo, which features a lion’s head topped with a crown.
Monarchies have long used a lion as the symbol of strength and courage, which finally gives a sense of meaning to the school’s nickname.
“Our new Monarchs logo provides an identity for our student-athletes to rally around,” Bryan Rizzo, director of athletics at Macomb Community College, said in a press release. “The traits the lion symbol embodies reflect the strength and resilience we work to foster within each Macomb student as an athlete, as well as attributes that will help support them as they pursue education, career, family and community life.”
Macomb Community College currently features nine athletic teams with over 100 student-athletes who now can finally have an understanding of what it means to be a Monarch, since the name was first coined for the school’s athletic teams in 1967. Current sports offered at the school are baseball, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross country, softball, volleyball, and men’s and women’s track and field.
“The traits of a lion would be tough, fierce, defending their territory and also family,” Matt Fecht, Macomb cross country coach and former stu-
On July 17, Macomb Community College, whose sports teams are nicknamed the Monarchs, announced its new logo, which features a lion’s head topped with a crown. Photo provided by Macomb Community College
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port of his coach, Tim O’Neil, and his wife, Tor Hawley Crittenden.
Sometimes you just need to see someone in your sport thrive to motivate you, and British hurdler David King, who also trains for Phoenix Track Club, reaching the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was important for Crittenden.
“A very big thing for me was although I didn’t even make it to the finals in my Olympic trials, my best friend, David King, he made his first Olympic team in 2021,” Crittenden said. “Seeing how fulfilling it was for him and how much that boosted his confidence and made him so happy, watching that in the front seat and being happy for him encouraged me.”
Not that he needed any more motivation, because he’s already running the best he’s ever run, setting a personal best at the Olympic trials, but Crittenden and his wife will also be expecting something special aside from a shot at a gold medal.
Crittenden and his wife are expecting their first child this year, solidifying one of the most memorable years that a track and field athlete could have.
“It kind of all came at the same time, and I think it happened this way for a reason,” Crittenden said. “I know that obviously with it being an Olympic year, it’s a defining moment in my career. I want to put all my eggs in this basket, and I want to focus and lock in. I want to do all the little things, but also there’s the beauty in having a little one and the investment that I have in my wife and seeing that she’s going through this pregnancy. It’s been very difficult for her with some really bad nausea and morning sickness the first three months, and despite that, she’s had an undying support and love for me as I do something that I love.”
Still currently unsponsored, Crittenden said he knows that each race carries more implications than just a medal or a qualification.
Crittenden is an inspiration not just for his family, but for runners all across the Utica High School track and field program who have kept tabs on Crittenden throughout his career, according to Utica boys track and field
head coach Megan Berry.
Berry was blown away by Crittenden’s ability when he came to the school for his junior year, and even though the world is just starting to get to know Crittenden in his 29-year-old season, Berry said she feels he still has a lot left to show.
“I don’t think he’s reached his ceiling just yet,” Berry said. “I think he can run even faster. He PR’d at the Olympic Trials and broke 13 (seconds) for the first time, and he looked really good. I feel like he could run even faster. I feel like he could medal at the Olympics for how well he was running, because he wasn’t that far behind Grant Holloway, who’s going for gold. He was just a few hundredths behind him. If he’s right there with Grant Holloway, he can race anybody.”
Every race, in Crittenden’s eyes, is for his wife, for his family, for his child, and for everyone who’s ever poured an ounce of time into him to keep pursuing his dream.
Crittenden said the moment from when he flies out for Paris on July 25 and takes the line for his first race on Aug. 4, it’s all become bigger for him than just the sport he loves.
“I’m already telling the baby like, ‘You helped daddy make the team. You helped me make all this happen,’” Crittenden said.
go out there and we’re going to be tough.”
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dent-athlete, said in a press release. “I think that describes the program we’re trying to build with the cross country program. We’re making a family atmosphere. We’re going to
“It brings another dimension to the athletics department as a whole,” Macomb baseball coach Taylor Grzelakowski said in a press release. “It’s just something that’s going to pique the interest of our players, parents, audience — everyone involved.”
Freddie Crittenden holds the United States flag after a race at the 2022 North American, Central American and Caribbean Championships in the Bahamas. The Utica High School alumnus will compete for the United States at the Paris Olympics.
Photo provided by Dr. Cassandra Crittenden
Lakeside
around late 2024 or early 2025, with town center construction to emerge over the ensuing 12 or so years. In April 2024, city officials said the redevelopment plan was running around a year behind schedule, due in part to difficulty with the mall ownership’s acquisition negotiations over the vacant Sears and Lord & Taylor properties.
But even in early 2023, some mall tenants told the Sterling Heights Sentry that they feared the town center news would falsely lead locals to believe that the mall was closing right away. At the time, Sterling Heights Community Relations Director Melanie Davis emphasized that “Lakeside Mall is not closing” — at least not imminently.
Tenants, attendees reflect
William Hayes co-owns This, That & The Other Thing, a store that sold everything from DVDs to collectibles and small appliances. When he talked to the Sentry June 27, he cast blame on the city for the mall’s current situation.
“Like a lot of our customers and a lot of the stores that were in here, they are thoroughly disgusted with the city of Sterling Heights,” he said.
Hayes said his store moved into the mall around 3 1/2 years ago, back when, he said, the mall was around 75% filled.
“They turned around and broke the news, and everybody started running, and they caused the collapse of many businesses and everything and people that they put out of business because they really can’t afford to go anywhere else,” he said.
He called the mall “an amazing building” and praised the mall management as “really good” for promptly taking care of everyone if they had a problem.
Jamie Torrico, the manager of the Anime GT store, said she has been honored to be part of the Lakeside family. She said the closing experience is sad, in large part due to the impact it’ll have on her customers and the community.
“I’m really, like, broken-hearted. Like, there’s such a void,” she said. “We have people that have come out of state, from Up North, and they come specifically just to see us in the store.
“So it’s just, we’re just really humbled that we’ve even had customers crying that we’re closing this location down. … We’ve seen people grow up as our customers, go to college, get married. We’ve had items of ours at their weddings as part of their weddings, and then they’ve had kids and they bring their kids in.”
Torrico said that while she has been in business for around 25 years, this is the first time her business has been actually closed without another location already set up. She said she hopes to relocate somewhere in the area of Macomb or Oakland County.
“We’re just trying to see where there’s some options for us, since the closure was a little bit more sudden than we all expected,” she said.
Sterling Heights and mall ownership formally announced that the mall would be closed by July 1 in a May 1 email. On Lakeside’s website, shop-lakesidemall.com, Macy’s has an announcement that it is still hiring and plans to stay open even after the mall’s closure. On June 30, four workers from Lakeside JCPenney said over the phone
will they remember most?
Meanwhile, near the food court, mall patrons Joe and Helga Praust were strolling and reminiscing. They said they have lived in Sterling Heights since 1971 and have been visiting Lakeside since its opening. And what
“Everything. We met a lot of people,” Helga Praust said. “It’s sad, but what are you going to do?”
“Nothing lasts forever,” added Joe Praust. See LAKESIDE on page 7A
ABOVE: The carousel space in the Lakeside food court stands
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that their store would also remain open after the mall closes.
Lakeside
History preserved
In an email, the Sterling Heights Public Library’s local library historian, Mitchell Mulroy, said his duties have recently included gathering news articles and securely archiving news station footage about the mall closing.
He added that he plans to use social media to show Lakeside’s construction during the 1970s and get people talking.
“I hope to use this as an opportunity to let the community know more about the local history resources available at the library, as well as answer questions about Lakeside they might have,” he said.
Mulroy described how Lakeside shaped Sterling Heights’ direction. He said it fostered “rapid urban development and economic change” in the city and other neighboring communities as the population grew in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Mulroy explained that real estate developers took 1 1/2 years to acquire Lakeside’s land and then spent another two years building the mall.
“A lot of the land acquired came from smaller farms, and several residents have spoken in oral histories about the mall being built on especially rich soil for crops,” Mulroy said.
“Shortly after it was built, the rent for storefronts was quite high, and only large stores like Sears were buying up space. The streets around the mall, including Hall Road, were still under construction when it opened. Smaller developers started taking up cheaper space around the mall as it became available.”
Sculptures to be saved
Although Lakeside Mall is now an empty edifice, its tall, abstract sculptures and public art will still be enjoyed for years to come, according to the mall’s ownership.
On June 26, a joint announcement between the city of Sterling Heights and the
Looking Back: Lakeside Mall development
mall ownership stated that “much of” of the mall’s public art will be incorporated into the Lakeside Town Center.
According to the statement, sculptures by Bruce Beasley, Fletcher Benton and Buky Schwartz will be saved for future display amid the estimated 30 acres of town center public spaces.
“We have been deeply moved by how much Lakeside Mall has meant to the Sterling Heights community for nearly 50 years,” Allison Greenfield, chief development officer of Lionheart Capital, said in the statement.
“This inspired us to create plans for repurposing the existing public art within the reimagined Lakeside. One of Lionheart’s main pillars is to reduce waste and facilitate reuse of serviceable materials and items, when possible, in the redevelopment process.”
The mall ownership also announced that it plans to host a charity estate sale later this year that will sell furniture, fixtures and other equipment. Event proceeds will reportedly go to the Sterling Heights Area Community Foundation, the announcement stated.
In addition, the announcement said Out of the Box Ventures will be involved in asking Sterlingfest Art & Music Fair attendees to suggest names for a future Lakeside Town
Center bike path. OOTB also hopes to play a sponsorship role at the Sept. 6 Dodge Park Food Truck Rally and the Sept. 27 State of the City Breakfast, the statement added.
Sterling Heights Mayor Michael Taylor said in a June 29 text message that he planned to visit Lakeside one more time June 30.
“I’ll take a final walk through sometime in the morning,” he said. “What I’ll remember most is meeting friends there in high school, clothes shopping with my mom and brother as a kid, and throwing coins in the fountain!”
When asked whether it is fair for mall tenants to blame the city and the town center announcement for accelerating the mall’s decline, Taylor said the city’s plans for Lakeside have been publicized since at least 2015.
“While I sympathize with the businesses at Lakeside, this day was inevitable and it’s better for the city to be transparent about the plans,” Taylor said.
Learn more about Lionheart Capital/ Out of the Box Ventures by visiting lheartcapital.com. Learn more about Sterling Heights and the Lakeside Town Center plans by visiting sterlingheights.gov and typing “Lakeside Town Center” in the search bar or call (586) 446-2489.
photo from 1976.
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“We’re excited for new investment in the community, new investment in beautifying our city and new eating options for our residents,” Roseville Administrative Services Specialist James Gammicchia said.
Chamber Executive Director Linda Weishaupt introduced Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken to those gathered, noting it is “the first one in Macomb County.”
Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken, which began in 1966 in Lima, Ohio, is known for its homestyle fried chicken. Menu items include baked beans, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, coleslaw and biscuits.
The new Roseville location, owned by Ray Also and Norman Aiyash, offers dinein, carryout, drive-thru and catering services. Many dignitaries and employees attended the grand opening, including Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel and Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken CEO Ryan Weaver.
“Good to see everybody. Thank you for having us in Roseville,” Weaver said. “We are getting ready to come up on our 60th anniversary as a brand and a concept. We do fried chicken; we think we do it better than anyone else at the end of the day. That’s kind of who we are.”
The chicken — cooked fresh — is honey-dipped, hand-breaded and pressurecooked.
“We’re going to bring our great product to this community. We’re going to bring our great operation and our franchising partners as well,” Weaver said. “This is going to be our third location we’ve opened in about the last 18 months: Livonia, Wayne and now
Roseville.”
Leo D. Gonzalez, a franchising partner, also shared his thoughts on coming to Roseville.
“We are glad to be here. In order to execute a plan like this, it takes a lot of people from the city’s side to the county to the franchise. They come together, including the partners, to execute on this. In any business, you got to have the right people on the team,” he said. “We are thrilled to be in your community. You’ve welcomed us. We look forward to seeing you in our dining room soon. Our extension in this community is really through you.”
Representatives from the offices of Congressman John James, R-10th District; and state Sen. Veronica Klinefelt, D-Eastpointe, presented Also and Aiyash with special certificates as the new business gets off the ground. Roseville City Council member Kurmmell Knox presented Lee’s staff members with a gift basket. He joked that he would be the first in line to order.
“I’m going to bring my family and tell my friends. That’s what we do in Roseville. We welcome businesses that come here with an idea to make this a better place,” Knox said. “We know that you are going to be great community partners, so we’re excited about that. We’re excited about the establishment of this place and the opportunity to have another nationally known brand in the city of Roseville.”
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heads for the past however many months. Just to get that and solidify that is a big relief.”
Koszyk and Davison have been partners together for over a year now after Koszyk’s partner retired and Davison was tearing up the singles scene at California Rowing Club, where both train in Oakland, Calif.
Both would continuously finish top-2 in singles for the club, and Koszyk said they figured they might as well give a doubles partnership a shot.
It’s always a roll of the dice anytime you team up with someone, especially when it’s two heavyweights in their respective sports, but Koszyk said it was a positive impact immediately for the two.
“We’re just pretty much on the same page with how we approach training and our mentality when it comes to how you prepare, how you race, and how you approach the sport,” Koszyk said. “I think we’re pretty aligned there, so it makes it pretty easy to work together.”
A 2016 Grosse Pointe South graduate, Koszyk was dominant as a junior rower, winning six Club National Championships with Detroit Boat Club, three Midwest Championship titles (two in 2014 and one in 2016), and winning various gold medals in the process.
Picking up the sport in 2013, Koszyk knew he had a passion for the sport immediately, but in regard to his talent, longtime rowing coach and founder of Detroit Waterfront Rowing Association Renee Adams said his talent was clear as day.
“He was very, very determined, and he’s also very quiet,” Adams said. “He’s deliberate with what he says, but he’s very sincere in what he says. He’s very, very focused. From the very beginning, I could see national team and Olympics for him. That’s what he wanted and that was his goal, and he wasn’t going to be deterred.”
Koszyk’s rowing career took him to Cornell University where he was a two-time Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Champion, two-time IRA Crew of the Year member, First Team All-Ivy, and Ivy League champion before graduating in 2020.
Hoping to elevate his rowing career, Koszyk moved out to Oakland, California, and joined the California Rowing Club, a high-level rowing club that offers the ability to train year-round with the California
weather, and Koszyk credits the move for where his career is today.
“I definitely think going out to CRC in Oakland was probably the biggest development step for me just being with all the top male athletes in the sport out there and just training with that group shows you what the level is and then you can train to that level and compare yourself to the best people in the country,” Koszyk said. “It helps knowing where you’re stacking up and where you need to go.”
With the Olympics a little over a week away, Koszyk is currently training in Italy before departing for Paris on July 22. The men’s doubles sculls heat is currently slated to compete on July 27.
Before then, it’s been all about training for Koszyk.
“Every week, it’s around 250,000 meters per week, so that’s like 1,000-1,200 minutes of actual moving exercise per week, and you just do that all year basically,” Koszyk said. “You don’t have any periods off. You get a couple weeks after the World Championships to not train and then you have to do it every day, twice a day, or sometimes three times if you have a weight session. It’s a lot of mileage you row in the morning with an hour and a half to an hour and 40 (minutes) of moving time, and you’ll get about 20,00024,000 meters. The afternoon is usually on land, so we’ll do another 90 minutes on the indoor rowing machine, and that’s 20 to 24k. We’ll do two to three lifts a week on top of that, so it’s pretty much a full-time job. You’re probably spending two hours in the morning and two to three hours in the afternoon.”
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