Long Beach Plaza
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| Location | Downtown Long Beach, California |
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| Coordinates | 33°46′20″N 118°11′24″W / 33.77222°N 118.19000°W |
| Opened | April 30, 1982 |
| Closed | 2000 |
| Demolished | 2000 |
| Developer | TrizecHahn |
| Stores | 149 |
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| Floor area | 900,000-square-foot (84,000 m2) |
| Floors | 2 |
Long Beach Plaza was a two-level 900,000-square-foot (84,000 m2) shopping mall located in Downtown Long Beach, California. The mall was demolished in 2000 and redeveloped into Long Beach City Place.
History
[edit]The Hahn Company proposed the Long Beach Plaza in July of 1974. The shopping center opened on April 30, 1982 with JCPenney and Buffums as day one anchors and 60 of the 149 shops. The eight-block dumbbell-shaped mall was an enclosed structure and included a two-story deck parking structure on both sides and about 900,000 square feet (84,000 m2) of shop space. Montgomery Ward was scheduled to open by late July.[1][2]
Problems with the mall included the fact that the mall structure (which included stores that faced inward) had no connection with the rest of Downtown Long Beach area. The closure of the nearby Naval stations in the 1990s also contributed to the slow demise of the mall.
In 1999, the mall was purchased by DDR Corp., Coventry Real Estate Partners and Prudential Real Estate as a joint venture. In 2000, the mall was demolished except for the parking structure. DDR eventually rebuilt the area and renamed it Long Beach City Place.
References
[edit]- ^ "Article clipped from The Los Angeles Times". The Los Angeles Times. April 29, 1982. p. 236. Retrieved January 29, 2026.
- ^ "In The Big City". Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved February 6, 2012.
External links
[edit]- Aerial view (scroll down to bottom) accessed 21 August 2006
- Interior view
- Demolished shopping malls in the United States
- Downtown Long Beach
- Buildings and structures in Long Beach, California
- Shopping malls in the South Bay, Los Angeles
- Shopping malls established in 1982
- Shopping malls disestablished in 2000
- 1982 establishments in California
- 2000 disestablishments in California
- Demolished buildings and structures in California
- Buildings and structures demolished in 2000
- Shopping malls developed by The Hahn Company