Paseo Colorado

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Paseo Colorado
Location Pasadena, California, United States
Opening date August 1980;37 years ago (1980-08) (as Plaza Pasadena)
September 2001;16 years ago (2001-09) (as Paseo Colorado)
Developer Ernest W. Hahn, Inc.
Owner Cypress Equities
Architect Charles Kober & Associates
No. of anchor tenants 0 (2 at peak)
Total retail floor area 553,377 sq ft (51,410.4 m2)
No. of floors 2
Public transit access
Website www.paseocolorado.com

Paseo Colorado, also known as The Paseo, [1] is an upscale outdoor mall in Pasadena, California, covering three city blocks with office space, shops, restaurants, a movie theater, and 400 loft-style condominiums (called Terrace Apartment Homes) above.

Pasadena, California City in California, United States

Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located 10 miles northeast of Downtown Los Angeles.

California State of the United States of America

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States. With 39.6 million residents, California is the most populous U.S. state and the third-largest by area. The state capital is Sacramento. The Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, with 18.7 million and 9.7 million residents respectively. Los Angeles is California's most populous city, and the country's second-most populous, after New York City. California also has the nation's most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The City and County of San Francisco is both the country's second-most densely populated major city after New York City and the fifth-most densely populated county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs.

Movie theater Venue, usually a building, for viewing films

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Contents

It is located in downtown Pasadena between Colorado Boulevard to the north and Green Street to the south. Paseo Colorado is just east of and connected by a pedestrian bridge, the Garfield Promenade, to Old Town Pasadena, and west of the center of downtown. The mall is located across Green Street from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in the Pasadena Conference Center. As of 2014, the mall is currently without an anchor retail chain stores since both Macy's and a Gelson's supermarket outlet had closed in 2013.

Colorado Boulevard major east–west street in Los Angeles County, Southern California

Colorado Boulevard is a major east–west street in Southern California. It runs from Griffith Park in Los Angeles east through Glendale, the Eagle Rock section of Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Arcadia, ending in Monrovia. The full route was once various state highways but is now locally maintained in favor of the parallel Ventura Freeway (CA-134) and Foothill Freeway (I-210).

Macys Department store chain in the United States

Macy's is an American department store chain founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. It became a division of the Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores in 1994, through which it is affiliated with the Bloomingdale's department store chain; the holding company was renamed Macy's, Inc. in 2007. As of 2015, Macy's was the largest U.S. department store company by retail sales. As of February 2019, there were 584 full-line stores with the Macy's nameplate in operation throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, and Guam. Its flagship store is located at Herald Square in the Manhattan borough of New York City. The company had 130,000 employees and earned annual revenue of $24.8 billion as of 2017.

Supermarket large form of the traditional grocery store

A supermarket is a self-service shop offering a wide variety of food, beverages and household products, organized into sections and shelves. It is larger and has a wider selection than earlier grocery stores, but is smaller and more limited in the range of merchandise than a hypermarket or big-box market.

History

The site was originally occupied by a shopping mall called Plaza Pasadena, which opened in 1980 and featured three anchor stores: J.C. Penney, The Broadway, and May Company California. [2] [3] It was built by The Hahn Company at a cost of $115 million on an 11-acre site and had featured over 120 stores. [4] The development was designed by Charles Kober & Associates and the resulting design was awarded a Progressive Architecture Magazine Design Award in 1979.

The Broadway defunct department store chain

The Broadway (1896–1996) was a mid-level department store chain headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1896 by English born Arthur Letts, Sr., who later went on to develop Holmby Hills, the Broadway became one of the dominant retailers in Southern California and the Southwest.

May Company California defunct California department store that merged with J. W. Robinsons to create Robinsons-May

May Company California was a chain of department stores operating in Southern California and Nevada, with headquarters in North Hollywood, California. It was a subsidiary of May Department Stores and merged with May's other Southern California subsidiary, J. W. Robinson's, in 1993 to form Robinsons-May.

This mall did not live up to expectations. May Company closed its store there in 1989, and the space was divided among smaller stores. [5]

In 1998, following the conversion of the Broadway store to Macy's and the closure of J.C. Penney, [6] the developers announced plans to tear down the mall and replace it with an outdoor center. [7]

Paseo Colorado opened in September 2001, retaining the Macy's store from the original development and added a supermarket and movie theater complex. [8] Two years later, the outdoor center was sold to Developers Diversified Realty Corp. for $114 million. [9]

In November 2010, the Paseo Colorado saw the opening of Noor, a 16,000 sq ft event space featuring state-of-the-art audio/visual and lighting and seating for up to 350 guests for banquets in its large ballroom, the Sofia, and 140 guests for banquets in its smaller ballroom, the Ella. [10]

On January 3, 2013 Macy's announced their store at Paseo Colorado would close in early spring 2013. [11] At the time of the store closure, there were plans to demolish the Macy's building and replace it with a multi-story hotel. [12]

In March 2013, Gelson's announced that they would close their store at Paseo Colorado on July 21, 2013. [13] [14] This store had been at this location since Paseo Colorado was first opened 13 years ago.

By late 2014, the mall was in the process of obtaining the necessary local governmental licenses to replace the vacant Macy's Department Store with a Hyatt Place hotel and mixed-use condominium complex. [15] [16] After obtaining the necessary permits, DDR began the demolition process in August 2015 and expects the new hotel along with other new retailers to be opened by mid-2017. [17]

In January 2016, DDR sold the retail development to Cypress Equities of Dallas. [18] [19]

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  1. ↑ Lee, Patrick (March 9, 2017). "Pasadena's Paseo Colorado mall gets a new name, restaurants, and H&M: A new hotel will also open soon". Curbed LA .
  2. ↑ Directory of major malls. MJJTM Publications Corp. 1990. p. 66.
  3. ↑ "Pasadena's $115-Million Plaza Officially Opens". Los Angeles Times . September 28, 1980. p. I30. (Subscription required (help)). The $115-million Plaza Pasadena, bordered by Colorado Boulevard, Los Robles and Marengo avenues and Green Street in downtown Pasadena, has opened its doors to the public. The three major stores in the project, J.C. Penney, May Co. and the Broadway, opened in mid-August. Charles Kober & Associates, architect for the plaza, won the 1979 architectural award from Progressive Architecture magazine for the project's design. The mall contains 120 shops on two levels. Alternate Link via ProQuest.
  4. ↑ "Plaza Pasadena opens with 125 stores". Los Angeles Times . October 26, 1980. p. Y12. (Subscription required (help)). The newest addition to the San Gabriel Valley is Plaza Pasadena, a downtown Pasadena redevelopment shopping center. The plaza, which is a project of Ernest W. Hahn Inc., is located at Colorado Boulevard and Los Robles. It opened on Sept. 3. With a total of 600,000 square feet, the plaza consists of 122 specialty shops plus the Broadway, J.C. Penney's and the May Co. Also located in the plaza are the Pasadena Arts Council offices. The plaza centerpiece is the magnificent Garfield Arch, which stands 65 feet tall and 58 feet wide. Alternate Link via ProQuest.
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  6. ↑ "Owners Propose Face-Lift for Plaza Pasadena Mall". Los Angeles Times . March 26, 1998.
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  9. ↑ Vincent, Roger (January 4, 2003). "Paseo Colorado Center Is Sold". Los Angeles Times .
  10. ↑ Kamal, Tariq (July 1, 2014). "Pasadena's Unofficial Community Center". Pasadena Weekly .
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