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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 .
Eureka Mall – Eureka – now a conventional outdoor shopping center Fallbrook Mall – West Hills (November 12, 1963 – 1997) – now Fallbrook Center Florin Mall – Sacramento (February 1968 – February 28, 2006) – now Florin Towne Centre
Mission Center Mall – Mission (1989–2006; demolished) Oak Park Mall – Overland Park (1974–present; largest mall in Kansas and the Kansas City Metropolitan Area) Town Center Plaza – Leawood (1996–present; outdoor mall; former home of the only Jacobson's department store in both Kansas City and the state of Kansas)
The Beverly Connection is a large power center in Beverly Grove, Los Angeles, across La Cienega Boulevard from the Beverly Center mall. It was originally proposed to be 1,100,000 square feet (100,000 m 2) in size but was scaled down to its opening size of 296,000 square feet (27,500 m 2) due to concerns about traffic congestion, availability of parking and overdevelopment in the neighborhood.
There was some controversy over potentially increasing traffic in a busy Los Angeles neighborhood that already offered several other shopping venues, including the Beverly Center. The Grove opened in 2002. The Warner Bros. tabloid television news program Extra was taped in the complex from 2010-2013, usually on the mall's lawn area.
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The site was originally occupied by a mini mall known as Westland and a free-standing May Company building (built in 1964) that was later incorporated into the mall. Part of the mall also occupied the site of the Pico Drive-in movie theater - which was located there from 1934 to 1950 - and is considered only the fourth drive-in in the United States, and the first in California.
The intersection of Beverly and La Cienega is the center of the studio zone (also known as the "thirty-mile zone"), the area that Los Angeles-based entertainment industry unions consider as "local" for purposes of work rules. [citation needed] Beverly Boulevard runs parallel to Melrose Avenue to the north and 3rd Street to the south. It passes ...