Wonderland Mall
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| Location | Livonia, Michigan, United States |
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| Opening date | 2007 |
| Developer | Schostak Corporation |
| Management | Schostak Corporation |
| Owner | Schostak Corporation |
| No. of stores and services | 40 + |
| No. of anchor tenants | 2 |
| No. of floors | 1 |
Wonderland Village is an outdoor shopping center in Livonia, Michigan, United States, a suburb of Detroit. The center is located at the southwest corner of Middlebelt Road and Plymouth Road, approximately one mile south of I-96. Walmart and Target are the complex's anchor stores.
The complex was formerly the site of a shopping mall called Wonderland Center and later Wonderland Mall, which operated from 1959 until 2004. Wonderland Center opened in 1959 as an open-air shopping center on the site of a former airport.This unique shopping environment featured mid-century modern tile work on outer walls in several areas. It also showcased an architecturally notable tile lined fountain with twirling metal artifacts that gracefully spouted water and generated white noise. Walkways were sheltered by an extended roof with open spaces in a central area with public drinking fountains and seating. Colorful plastic umbrella like structures sheltered shoppers from rain and snow in the open areas between buildings. At the time, the mall featured Montgomery Ward and Federal's as its anchor stores. The mall also featured Woolworth's and S.S. Kresge's five-and-dime stores at the time of its opening. Federal's later became Foland's Catalog Showroom, while Kresge's remained in operation into the early 1980s even as a standalone Kmart store had opened just west of Wonderland.
In 1983, Schostak Brothers Company assumed full ownership of the mall, and beginning the next year, converted Wonderland from an open-air complex to an enclosed shopping mall. The new Wonderland Mall was dedicated in November 1986. This renovation added 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2) of gross leasable area. Further renovation in 1989 added a Target store and a movie theater operated by AMC Theatres, followed by Service Merchandise (in the old Foland's), OfficeMax and Dunham's Sports in the early 1990s. After these latter expansions, Wonderland Mall was 862,000 square feet (80,100 m2) in size and comprised more than 80 tenants.
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