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Westfield UTC is an upscale, open-air shopping mall in the University City community of San Diego, California. It lies just east of La Jolla , near the University of California, San Diego . The mall is served by UTC Transit Center , which is the northern terminus of the Blue Line of the San Diego Trolley .
Marston's had a location in downtown San Diego, and had begun consultations in 1956 to choose the site of the Grossmont Center store, their first branch location. The store design featured 3,200 feet (980 m) of moldings, gold leaf lettering, murals painted by five artists, and a Gothic -style canopy over its entry. [ 2 ]
College Grove Shopping Center, also Marketplace at the Grove, at SR-94 at College Avenue in Oak Park, San Diego, on the border of Lemon Grove, is an open-air shopping center, but was originally a regional shopping mall, only the second to be built in San Diego County, and the 37th in the country. It opened July 28, 1960 with an official grand ...
Price Club was founded by Sol Price in 1975 after he was forced out of FedMart, another retail chain he had founded. Price and several friends invested $2.5 million to establish Price Club. The first Price Club location opened on July 12, 1976, [2] in San Diego, at the former site of a manufacturing building previously owned by Howard Hughes ...
When it opened, the center housed the historic Jessop's Clock, built in 1907, which formerly stood on a sidewalk in front of the Jessop and Sons jewelry store in downtown San Diego. [ 29 ] Weeks after the mall's opening in 1985, a man died by suicide after jumping from a third-story walkway [ 30 ] in what was the first of five suicides to occur ...
1950s. In early 1958, May Centers proposed rezoning 90 acres (360,000 m 2) in the then sparsely-populated Mission Valley area of San Diego to build a shopping mall. [4] In June 1958, the San Diego City Council unanimously voted in favor of rezoning the 90 acres (360,000 m 2) for the May plan.
With the newly completed enlargement, Plaza Camino Real encompassed 1,148,400 leasable square feet. The mall assumed the position as the largest shopping center in San Diego County with five department stores as anchors. It retained this distinction until Fashion Valley Mall was enlarged to 1,305,000 leasable square feet in 1981.
Fashion Valley (also called Fashion Valley Mall) is an upscale, open-air shopping mall in Mission Valley in San Diego, California.The shopping center hosts 1,720,533 sq ft (159,842.7 m 2) of leasable floor area, making it the largest mall in San Diego and one of the largest in California.