La Mirada Mall

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La Mirada Mall was a 72-acre (29 ha) regional shopping mall at the southeast corner of La Mirada Boulevard (originally named Luitwieler) and Rosecrans Avenue in La Mirada, California, in southeast Los Angeles County, in a region known as the Gateway Cities. It is now the site of the La Mirada Theater Center, a strip mall.

Ohrbach's opened a freestanding store here, its third in the Los Angeles area after Miracle Mile and Downtown L.A., and the first one in a suburb, on November 3, 1962, measuring 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2).[1][2][3]

In the early 1970s, Canadian developer Mark Tanz invested about $7 million to turn a loosely arranged, growing collection of stores into an enclosed mall next to a renovated outdoor plaza with fountains and trees. Over the years, stores that came and went included

Robert's Department Store.[4][5][6] The former open-air nearly double in size in its transition to a fully-enclosed mall.[7]

In the early 1980s, failing to create a unique profile among the dozen or so malls in the Gateway Cities area, the mall shifted to profiling itself as a "discount mall" with lower rents and stores that offered discounted, but name-brand, merchandise.[8] Ohrbach's and Woolco left the mall.[9]

In 1983, Toys-R-Us opened in the space that Woolco vacated[10] at 15300 La Mirada Blvd.[11]

But by early 1988, the decision had been made to demolish the mall and reduce its size.

Sav-On Drugs), AMC Theatres
and the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.

References

  1. ^ "Advertisement for Ohrbach's". Los Angeles Times. September 9, 1962. p. 17.
  2. ^ "Ohrbach's To Build Department Store in Panorama City Center". Valley Times (North Hollywood, California). January 9, 1964.
  3. ISBN 0-06-012739-2
  4. ^ "La Mirada Hopes That Small Will Be Better for Mall : Redevelopment: City officials break ground for scaled-down neighborhood shopping center to replace mall that failed". 30 September 1990 – via LA Times.
  5. ^ "Last Days of La Mirada Mall : Developers Forgo City Help as They Plan to Clear 72-Acre Site and Rebuild". 14 January 1988 – via LA Times.
  6. ^ "La Mirada Mall map 1976".
  7. ^ a b Blume, Howard (September 30, 1990). "La Mirada Hopes That Small Will Be Better for Mall : Redevelopment: City officials break ground for scaled-down neighborhood shopping center to replace mall that failed". Los Angeles Times.
  8. ^ "'Nouveau Poor' get a break at off-price mall". Los Angeles Times. March 6, 1983.
  9. ^ "La Mirada Led Way with First Discount Mall". East Review. 6 February 1986. p. 20. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  10. ^ "La Mirada Mall Gets Toys-R-Us Store as Tenant". East Review. 19 May 1983. p. 6. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  11. ^ "Advertisement for Woolco". The Los Angeles Times. 19 December 1971. p. 225. Retrieved 8 February 2024. 15300 La Mirada Blvd.
  12. ^ Boxall, Bettina (January 14, 1988). "Last Days of La Mirada Mall : Developers Forgo City Help as They Plan to Clear 72-Acre Site and Rebuild". Los Angeles Times.
  13. ^ "Toys R Us Grand Opening - La Mirada - 1991 Commercial". YouTube. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  14. ^ "2007 street view of 14920 La Mirada Blvd, La Mirada, CA 90638". Google Maps. Retrieved 8 February 2024.

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