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Stonewood Center, sometimes referred to as Stonewood Mall, is a shopping mall located in Downey, California, which is one of the Gateway Cities of Southeastern Los Angeles County. It is located at the intersection of Firestone and Lakewood Boulevards , and it is from this intersection that the mall's name is derived ("Fire stone " + "Lake wood ...
The Cerritos Towne Center is a power center that combines offices, retail, hotel and entertainment facilities in one master planned project. The Towne Center includes the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, [39] a 203-room Sheraton hotel and more than one million square feet (93,000 m 2) of office space.
Los Cerritos Center – Cerritos (1971) MainPlace Mall – Santa Ana (1987) ... Stonewood Center – Downey (1958) Sunvalley Shopping Center – Concord (1967)
Built on 125 acres (0.51 km 2) of former dairy farms, the future site of the Cerritos Towne Center was one of the last remnants of the city of Cerritos' agricultural past. . The area, formally known as "Area Development Plan 2", bounded by State Route 91 to the north, Shoemaker Avenue to the east, 183rd Street to the south and Bloomfield Avenue to the west, was nicknamed "the Golden Triangle ...
The Cerritos Redevelopment Agency initially invested $30 million for the development of the Los Cerritos Center area. The 100-acre (0.40 km 2) shopping area built at Gridley Road and South Street was developed by Ernest M. Hahn, Inc. in September 1971 with the Phase I opening of the corridor from The Broadway department store (currently Macy's) to Ohrbach's (first became Mervyn's in 1987 ...
Workers in Downey building Vultee Vengeance bombers for the Royal Air Force in 1943 [14] Farmers in the area grew grain, corn, castor beans, and fruit, and by 1935 Downey was characterized as an "orange-grove town". [15] Downey was incorporated in 1956 and instituted a charter form of government in 1964. Suburban homes and factories replaced ...
Dan Harkins sued a group of movie distributors in 1977, claiming they had stopped him from scheduling a number of high-profile first-run films. [9] After Harkins won the lawsuit, the chain was able to show a run of the 1940 Walt Disney animated film Fantasia in May 1982, starting a string of successful releases.
The Promenade at Downey is a 77-acre (31 ha), 656,000-square-foot (60,900 m 2) retail power center in Downey, California, built on the 1,500,000-square-foot (140,000 m 2) mixed-use development on the site of the former Downey Studios, which before that was the site of a Boeing/NASA industrial complex, originally built in 1948 by North American Aviation.