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This is a list of department stores and some other major retailers in the four major corridors of Downtown Los Angeles: Spring Street between Temple and Second ("heyday" from c.1884–1910); Broadway between 1st and 4th (c.1895-1915) and from 4th to 11th (c.1896-1950s); and Seventh Street between Broadway and Figueroa/Francisco, plus a block of Flower St. (c.1915 and after).
Ohrbach's moved into the building the following year [5] and in 1959, the company sold the building to Starrett Corp. for $2.8 million ($29.3 million in 2023). [3] In 1979, the Broadway Theater and Commercial District was added to the National Register of Historic Places, with Fifth Street Store listed as a contributing property in the district ...
The Bloc (stylized as THE BLOC), formerly Macy's Plaza and Broadway Plaza, is an open-air shopping center in downtown Los Angeles at 700 South Flower Street, in the Financial District. Its tenants include the downtown Los Angeles Macy's store, LA Fitness , Nordstrom Local, UNIQLO , and the Sheraton Grand Los Angeles hotel.
At the time that the Great White Store was opened, the store could boast of having one of the first escalators on the West Coast, several restaurants, a drug store with an 80-foot-long soda fountain, [17] grocery store, bakery, fruit store, meat market, U.S. post office, telegraph office, barber shop, a dentist, a chiropractor, a physician's ...
The flagship department stores like Bullock's (1983), Barker Brothers (1984) and Robinson's (1993) had closed and only the Broadway/Macy's at The Bloc, previously named Broadway Plaza remained. However, in 1986, the Seventh Market Place mall, now FIGat7th, opened, bringing a smaller retail cluster back to Seventh such as the 7th Street/Metro ...
The Broadway was a mid-level department store chain headquartered in Los Angeles, California.Founded in 1896 by English-born Arthur Letts Sr., and named after what was once the city's main shopping street, [1] the Broadway became a dominant retailer in Southern California and the Southwest.
Mendocino is home to a large number of hotels and bed and breakfasts. It has a downtown commercial district facing the ocean, with a number of art galleries, retail shops, lodging and restaurants. Mendocino is one of the many small California towns facing severe water scarcity. Many of the region's wells, the town's primary water source, have ...
Mervyn's was added as a fourth anchor in the 1980s near The Broadway, giving the mall an "L" shape and adding additional small stores between The Broadway and Mervyn's. A food court was added near the entrance in the center of the mall on its southern side. Also in the 1980s, Mimi's Cafe was added as a standalone building in the northern part ...