Mike McInerney, a Metro Detroit car dealer who purchased the former Sears Auto Center at Macomb Mall in Roseville, recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for his McInerney Auto Center.

For the mall, whose original anchor tenants included Sears, JC Penney, The Boston Store, Carlisle’s, Halle's, Kaufmann’s and a Loblaw's grocery store, the call to adapt has been constant.

A vacant Sears Auto building at Whitehall Mall could soon become the site of a major convenience store chain. Delaware County, Pa.-based Wawa has signed a lease to construct a 5,616-square-foot ...