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A new housing project that will also feature first-floor retail space has been announced for the downtown Battle Creek area.

A new housing project that will also feature first-floor retail space has been announced for the downtown Battle Creek area.

Peeks into the Past: Tales of Battle Creek Theaters Battle Creek’s bustling downtown once sported as many as a dozen movie theaters.   You could walk out of one, walk a few feet and go into another.   Why were there so many, and what happened to them? The Dreamland, the Queen, the Bijou, the Rex, the Regent, the Garden, the Strand, Michigan, and the Post.   Those were just some of the places to watch movies in Battle Creek. Battle Creeks Downtown Theaters-Curt Thornton photo On the next...

40 years ago, the Stouffer Battle Creek Hotel opened, and was the centerpiece of a spurt of downtown development that hasn’t been seen, until recently.  Back then, Bob Miller, Sr., publisher of the Battle Creek Enquirer had just retired and set his sights on working, through the Miller Foundation and the community to update Battle Creek’s downtown.  Voters approved a merger of the city and Battle Creek Township, Kellogg built a world headquarters, and soon the W.K. Kellogg Foundation woul...