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Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza (alternately BHCP) [1] is a shopping mall located in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. This was one of the first regional shopping centers in the United States built specifically for the automobile. Two anchor buildings, completed in 1947, retain their original Streamline Moderne style.
The Beverly Center is a shopping mall in Los Angeles, California, United States. It is an eight-story structure located near the West Hollywood border but within Los Angeles city limits, bounded by Beverly Boulevard, La Cienega Boulevard, 3rd Street, and San Vicente Boulevard. The mall's anchor stores are Bloomingdale's and Macy's.
This is a list of department stores and some other major retailers in the four major corridors of Downtown Los Angeles: Spring Street between Temple and Second ("heyday" from c.1884–1910); Broadway between 1st and 4th (c.1895-1915) and from 4th to 11th (c.1896-1950s); and Seventh Street between Broadway and Figueroa/Francisco, plus a block of Flower St. (c.1915 and after).
McCarthy named the streets in honor of prominent figures of the California Gold Rush. [5] He also planned the neighborhood around a shopping center. [2] Carthay Circle was one of the first planned communities in Los Angeles, [6] and the first in the city to feature underground utilities. The success of Carthay Circle served as the catalyst for ...
Baldwin Village was developed in the early 1940s and 1950s by architect Clarence Stein, as an apartment complex for young families.Baldwin Village is occasionally called "The Jungles" by locals because of the tropical trees and foliage (such as palms, banana trees and begonias) that once thrived among the area's tropical-style postwar apartment buildings. [3]
Westfield Century City is an outdoor shopping mall in the Century City neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.It has 1,300,000 square feet (120,000 m 2) of gross leasable area and is anchored by Bloomingdale's, Macy's, and Nordstrom.
The Los Angeles Downtown Industrial District (LADID) is manufacturing and wholesale district of downtown Los Angeles, California, that was established as a property-based business improvement district (BID) in 1998 by the Central City East Association (CCEA). The district spans 46 blocks, covers 600 properties, and is the historic home of ...
Many homes were destroyed despite the efforts of the Los Angeles Fire Department to suppress the flames. The fire killed three people and destroyed 69 homes; [9] the arsonist was never caught. In 1985, the Los Angeles Times noted that Baldwin Hills is "now often called the Black Beverly Hills". [10]