The end of an era.
It was called Crenshaw Center. The first suburban shopping mall in Los Angeles. It was an open-air shopping center that included Broadway and May Company department stores. My mother’s favorite place to shop in the 1950s. Now it is a larger enclosed mall, re-named Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, that is probably going to close.
It won’t be the first mall to close in the Los Angeles Orange County metropolitan area. The Laguna Hills Mall in southern Orange County closed on December 31, 2018 and is being demolished. The Hawthorne Mall closed in 1999. The Westside Pavilion on Pico Boulevard in West Los Angeles is now being remodeled for Google offices. The Promenade Shopping Mall is Woodland Hills has only four businesses left including an AMC theater is about to be torn down and replaced with housing, offices, and stores and is planned to complete in 2035.
Even after the corona virus has been concurred will we return to the malls? I doubt it.
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