Beverly Center

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Beverly Center
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Beverly Center, 2004
Beverly Center
Location8500 Beverly Blvd Los Angeles, California, U.S. 90048
Coordinates 34°04′30″N118°22′37″W / 34.075°N 118.377°W / 34.075; -118.377
Opening dateFebruary 4, 1982;42 years ago (February 4, 1982)
Developer A. Alfred Taubman, Sheldon Gordon & E. Phillip Lyon
Management Taubman Centers
OwnerTaubman Centers
ArchitectLou Nardorf of Welton Becket and Associates (original), [1] Massimiliano Fuksas and Doriana O. Mandrelli (2018 renovation) [2]
No. of stores and services100+
No. of anchor tenants 2
Total retail floor area 883,000 sq ft (82,000 m2)
No. of floors8
Website https://beverlycenter.com/

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. The mall's anchor stores are Bloomingdale's and Macy's. The mall's dramatic six-story series of escalators offer visitors views of the Hollywood Hills, Downtown Los Angeles, and Los Angeles Westside.

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History

Beverly Center at the corner of La Cienega Boulevard and Beverly Boulevard BeverlyCenterCorner.jpg
Beverly Center at the corner of La Cienega Boulevard and Beverly Boulevard
View from the intersection of La Cienega Blvd. and 3rd St, prior to renovations Bevcent.jpg
View from the intersection of La Cienega Blvd. and 3rd St, prior to renovations

The site was formerly occupied by Beverly Park, a small amusement park featuring a Ferris wheel, merry-go-round, mini roller-coaster, and a pony ride called "Ponyland". [3]

The Beverly Center opened on February 4, 1982. [4] It was built, at a cost of $100 million, by developers A. Alfred Taubman, Sheldon Gordon, and E. Phillip Lyon. The mall was anchored by Bullock's and The Broadway department stores. Because of the small size of the plot of land, the mall was built entirely atop its own multi-story parking garage. The northeast corner of the mall, at the intersection of Beverly and La Cienega Boulevards, is the geographic center of the city's studio zone.

The mall's unusual shape and lack of street frontage along San Vicente Boulevard are the result of both its position at the intersection of a number of angled streets and its location above the Salt Lake Oil Field. As of 2009, the western portion of the mall property contained a cluster of oil wells in an active drilling enclosure operated by Freeport-McMoRan (formally Plains Exploration & Production. [5] [6]

On July 16, 1982, the Cineplex Beverly Center 14 opened. The 14-screen multiplex was the largest in the US at the time. [7] The opening was national news and was covered in The New York Times . [8] In the late 1980s, three smaller screens were removed on the main floor, so two larger auditoriums could be built on the roof.

On October 24, 1982, [9] America's first and the world's second Hard Rock Cafe [10] opened on the ground level of the mall. It closed on December 31, 2006. [11]

In 1989, Terence Conran's Habitat, a high-end British furniture company, opened an anchor store on the mall's ground level. It closed in 1993 [12] and was converted later that year to Bullock's Men's Store. [13] In 1996, Bullock's became Macy's and the Bullock's and Bullock's Men's Store anchors became Macy's and the Macy's Men's Store. The Broadway closed in 1996, when it too was absorbed into Macy's, [14] and reopened in 1997, after renovations, as Bloomingdale's.

In 2004, Taubman Centers, the public Real Estate Investment Trust and successor to A. Alfred Taubman's shopping center interests, purchased its partners minority investments stake in the property.

Beverly Center and West Hollywood Hills BeverlyCenter from south.jpg
Beverly Center and West Hollywood Hills

The cinema closed in January 2006, as a result of the Loews/AMC merger. The theater reopened in February 2006, operated by Mann Theatres. It closed again in August 2009, and reopened again in September 2009, operated by Rave Motion Pictures. The theater closed permanently on June 3, 2010. [15]

The Beverly Center underwent a renovation from 2006 to 2008. These renovations included reconstructing the escalators visible from the outside. [16]

A food court operated at the mall until 2014, when it was eliminated. Uniqlo opened one of its first Southern California locations in the space. [17] [18] As part of renovations starting in 2016, the mall aims to bring restaurants back to the empty spaces on the street level. [19]

Starting in March 2016, the Center underwent a major renovation that aimed to add a food hall and several new street-level restaurants and a skylight. Renovation costs were given as US$500 million. [20] [21] The renovations added a perforated steel facade on the outside of the building and an upgraded parking structure which includes technology to help drivers remember where they've parked. [22]

Macy's Men's Store closed around 2021, and the space is currently being converted to a Gold's Gym and a Lucky Strike Lanes bowling alley. [23]

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