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The Somerset Collection

2800 W Big Beaver Road, Troy, MI

Somerset is two malls -- one on each side of Big Beaver Road -- stitched together by a 700-foot enclosed bridge with moving walkways so shoppers never have to step outside.

📅 1969–present🏛️ StoreStill hereBuilt 1969
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The Somerset Collection, 2800 W Big Beaver Road, Troy, MI
Somerset Collection exterior, 2021 · Lrgjr72, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

The story

The story starts in 1967, when a Saks Fifth Avenue opened on Big Beaver Road. The single-level, upscale Somerset Mall was built around it in 1969, designed by Louis G. Redstone Associates, with tenants like FAO Schwarz and Mark Cross. A 1991-1992 overhaul added a second level and a Neiman Marcus, and rebranded the place as the Somerset Collection.

The revamp worked well enough that in 1996 the owners built an entirely new three-story mall -- Somerset North -- directly across Big Beaver Road, bringing in Michigan's first Nordstrom and a Hudson's. To connect the two, they spanned the road with the climate-controlled "SkyWalk," an enclosed skybridge with moving walkways that was among the first of its kind in the country. When Marshall Field's became Macy's in 2006, Somerset briefly stood as one of only three malls in the U.S. to host all four major department-store nameplates.

What's There Now

Still operating as an upscale two-building mall connected by the SkyWalk, anchored by Nordstrom and Macy's (North) and Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue (South).

Everything that was here

Did you know?

The complex is literally two separate malls on opposite sides of a public road, joined only by the enclosed SkyWalk.
The SkyWalk runs about 700 feet and includes moving walkways -- one of the first such mall skybridges in the country.
Somerset North opened in 1996 with Michigan's first Nordstrom.
For a time it was one of just three U.S. malls hosting all four major department stores (Nordstrom, Macy's, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue).
It is consistently ranked among the most profitable U.S. malls not owned by a real-estate investment trust.

Connected places

City of Paris Department Store

San Francisco, CA
Neiman Marcus

Frost Brothers Department Store

San Antonio, TX
Neiman Marcus

Frederick & Nelson

Seattle, WA
Nordstrom

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