The Northland Foundation.
Northland Eastland Southland.
Northland Blueberry Variety(Nortland).
Even worse, what if Northland Center was too good?
Northland Center was going to have nearly
100 small stores;
This story of the Northland, however, we have in its entirety.
Northland invests in people and communities to support a thriving northeastern Minnesota.
If Northland Center were to open its doors today,
it would be remarkably unremarkable.
The question of where to put all the parking spaces(Northland would have more than 8,000) was one problem.
Serving the seven-county area of northeastern Minnesota, the Northland Foundation is one of the six Minnesota Initiative
Foundations established by McKnight in 1986.
Also, the refinanced debt has allowed Northland Foundation to redirect $144,000 each year from interest
payments to its assisted living venture, Northland Village.
Even if it didn't bankrupt Hudson's,
it probably would have forced the company to scrap its plans for Northland, Westland, and Southland Centers.
Since closing with McKnight, Northland's Business Finance Program has grown
its lending capacity to build business, create family-sustaining jobs, and strengthen its regional economy.
Hudson's eventually decided to build Northland first, and by the time Gruen started working on those plans in 1951,
his thoughts on what a shopping center should look like had changed completely.
But when Northland opened in the spring of 1954,
it was one-of-a-kind, easily the largest shopping center on Earth, both in terms of square footage and the number of stores in the facility.
With a price tag of nearly $25 million,
the equivalent of more than $200 million today, Northland Center was one of the most expensive retail developments in history,
and nobody even knew if it would work.
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.
My products are mostly organic and most of the companies I work with have a social calling too-
from reforestation and re-establishing sand dunes and native bushland in Northland(NZ), to trade aid projects in Tonga and Uganda,
to supporting coffee communities in war-torn Yemen.