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The mall is located at the south end of Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade shopping district, two blocks from the beach and Santa Monica Pier. The mall originally opened in 1980 as an indoor mall, and underwent a massive, three-year reconstruction process beginning in January 2008 and re-opened as an outdoor shopping mall on August 6, 2010.
A new enclosed shopping center, Santa Monica Place (1980–2007), designed by Frank Gehry was added at the Promenade's southern end. A citywide bond measure was issued and architectural firm ROMA Design Group was hired to redesign Santa Monica Mall. The renamed Third Street Promenade opened on September 16, 1989. [6]
The high-profile success of the promenade in the 1990s also planted the seeds of the current struggle to keep stores occupied, experts said. Third Street for decades was Santa Monica's main ...
Ohrbach's was a moderate-priced department store with a merchandising focus primarily on clothing and accessories. From its modest start in 1923 until the chain's demise in 1987, Ohrbach's expanded dramatically after World War II, and opened numerous branch locations in the New York and Los Angeles metropolitan areas.
In January 1960, Shopping Bag —with 38 stores at that time— and Vons —with 28 stores— announced their merger, making it the second largest supermarket chain on the West Coast. [3] The merger was challenged by the Federal Trade Commission , and after two lower court victories for Vons, in 1966 the Supreme Court of the United States ...
Henshey's was a major department store in Downtown Santa Monica, California founded by Harry Henshey and partners, the first department store in Los Angeles' Westside. It opened in 1925 as the Bay Department Store , at four stories and 25,000 square feet (2,300 m 2 ), far larger than any store in the city.
Haggarty's new New York Cloak and Suit store on Seventh Street in the Brockman Building, sketch from November 1918. The chain was founded by J. J. Haggarty (1860–1935) who by 1905 had served for three and a half years and department manager and buyer for Jacoby Bros. department store, when he decided to open his own store, the New York Cloak and Suit House, occupying what had been the ...
On November 1, 1884, Coulter's moved to its third location, the Hollenbeck Block, 201–205 N. Spring Street, claiming to be largest and best-lighted store in Southern California at the time. It had 3,000 square feet (280 m 2 ) gross retail space on the ground floor and an equal amount in the basement for wholesale trade.