Willow Creek is a well-maintained shopping center located in Portage, Michigan, just north of Interstate 94, near the highly affluent Oakwood Neighborhood. The neighborhood center offers excellent retail and service-based office space opportunities, including fully built-out or customized spaces to suit user’s needs. Strategically located along S Westnedge Avenue, in an expanding retail corridor, this magnificent center features a modern façade with inviting storefronts, extensive landscaping, and decorative vegetation that makes for an ideal location for the community to shop. Several national and regional brands already make their home there, including Dollar Tree, Batteries Plus Bulbs, Biggby Coffee, Wingstop, and more. The unparalleled management from The Hinman Company ensures premium service aimed at exceeding expectations. Skilled local property management works diligently to ensure the success of users by providing a professional, well-maintained property to compliment the unique needs of their businesses. Additionally, The Hinman Company has its own team of in-house construction and design professionals standing by to help create thoughtfully designed spaces. Tenants in this center enjoy prominent brand exposure from the more than 40,458 daily drivers that pass through the intersection of Market Place and S Westnedge Avenue. Pylon and building signage opportunities are available in what may be the most impactful and prominent area of Portage for retail branding opportunities. The center also benefits from the area’s dense retail including Lowes, and Meijer across the street. Synonymous with destination shopping, The Crossroads is a seven-minute drive. Customers will appreciate the easy ingress and egress through multiple entrances in addition to ample parking and a signalized intersection. Users will benefit from the location’s built-in consumer base that features a mix of demographics. This great location features strong economic demographics that offers all the elements that make for a successful business. In addition to the daytime commuter traffic, a population of over 150,770 people lives within a five-mile radius of the property, with the average household income exceeding $70,091. Having built itself up as an economic powerhouse thanks to the production of pharmaceuticals by Pfizer, including the COVID-19 vaccine, and the development of medical technologies by locally based Stryker Corporation, Portage has become one of the most affluent and desirable suburbs in West Michigan. Portage residents enjoy a mostly quiet suburban atmosphere, filled with large homes and attractive apartment complexes. Located about 10 minutes south of Downtown Kalamazoo, the Portage area has been rapidly growing with a projected population growth of 3.0% over the next five years. Together these residents make up a total annual consumer spending of over $3.1 billion, almost $350 million of which was on food and drinking establishments last year. This prominent position and access, along with a high quality of living and friendly business environment, serve to boost the economic growth of Portage and make it an excellent area to locate a company.
Rich MacDonald
The Hinman Company