If you had been traveling east down 28th Street in the late 1950s and looked to the south after crossing Clyde Park Avenue, this is what you would have seen: an empty field. This is the site of what is now Rogers Plaza. Opened in 1961, Rogers Plaza was the first mall in Western Michigan. Among its tenants was S.S. Kresge, Kroger and A&P Supermarkets, Montgomery Ward and Cunningham Drug. About a year later, Southland Plaza (which became Wyoming Village Mall and is now known as 28th West Place) opened with a Wurzburg’s Department Store.
Today, Rogers Plaza, which was named after a founding family of the City of Wyoming, houses the Secretary of State office and the U.S. Post Office along with several businesses, restaurants and hair salons.
