 The first physical change to the mall occurred in 1992, when seven storefronts were razed to make room for a Farmer Jack grocery store, adjacent to Service Merchandise.Other separate buildings housing locations for Applebee's and Taco Bell were constructed that same year lining Eureka Road (another separate building east of the Ward's Auto Center had been built in 1989, during a remodeling of the mall).By the end of the 1990s, the economic climate and the condition of nearby neighborhoods was changing once again, as big-box retailers began overtaking the business of older, established malls, combined with the beginning of the expansion of the decline of Detroit through Lincoln Park into Southgate.