On June 4, 1950,
Hudson's announced its plan to build Eastland Center, the first of the four projects scheduled for development.
However, there was another case, the Eastland, a ship that capsized in Chicago Harbor
in 1915, and it killed 841 people-- that was 14 more than the passenger toll of the Titanic.
Then he used the information to write up a proposal that called for developing not one but four shopping centers,
to be named Northland, Eastland, Southland, and Westland Centers, each in a different suburb of Detroit.