A Michigan-based company bought LAKE PARKER MALL in January 1974. The official name of the retail hub was changed to (THE) LAKELAND MALL in July, with an indoor-outdoor renovation being completed in October.
Graphic from the Continental Real Estate Equity Corporation

A circa-1987 plan catches us up with several changes. Woolco has been replaced by Sam's Club. The closing of S.H. Kress created space for a new Center Court. Unfortunately, the impact of these improvements was muted by the new mall in town...LAKELAND SQUARE (1988). It quickly usurped LAKELAND MALL, whose final store went dark in 1994. In 1999, a local church purchased the vacant complex and reconfigured it as a faith-based facility.