For generations of Western Michigan University students, the University Plaza complex at Howard and Michigan Streets in Kalamazoo was the closest off-campus shops to them.
Now that history is gone as the plaza met the wrecking ball and is just a pile of rubble.
The demolition took place in early June 2021 to make way for university expansion.
History of the University Plaza location
The Vanished Kalamazoo Facebook group also remembers when a head shop, In Flight, and record store were tenants.
The most recent occupants of University Plaza were Two Guys Grill, which hopped across the street to a vacant Wendy s while Campus Wok also crossed Michigan Avenue to the Grotto complex.