Storied Firestone repair center leaving longtime Northgate Mall site

The Firestone Auto Center at Northgate Mall is scheduled to close, according to the tire and repair center. There has been a auto service center at that site since the early 1970s.
The Firestone Auto Center at Northgate Mall is scheduled to close, according to the tire and repair center. There has been a auto service center at that site since the early 1970s.

The longtime Firestone auto tire and repair shop next to Northgate Mall is shifting sites as it moves to another location nearby on Highway 153, according to the business.

Great Clips, which also operates in the building located in the outparcel of the mall next to Outback Steakhouse, will move as well.

Trish Hall of the Firestone Auto Care business said plans are to move into the new location this summer. She declined to say where on Highway 153 the new facility will go.

"We've got a fence up," she said. "They've started getting everything together."

It's believed that Firestone has operated at the current building for more than 30 years. Great Clips has been at the site for 20 years.

See more in Tuesday's Times Free Press.

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