A Brief History of the Crenshaw Mall | Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza in South LA (2021)
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2024
- A Brief History of the Crenshaw Mall | Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza in South LA (2021)
Believe it or not, South LA is home to one of the very first modern malls in the nation. And that history starts with the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, locally known as the Crenshaw Mall.
The Crenshaw Mall is one of the oldest in largest malls in South Los Angeles / South Central and the City of Los Angeles.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:28 Redefining Retail
3:11 The Decline Part One
4:37 A Glimmer of Hope
5:18 The Decline Part Two
8:18 Outro
Before the Crenshaw and Baldwin Hills neighborhoods of Southwest Los Angeles were developed, it was primarily private ranch land owned by Elisas “Lucky” Baldwin, a wealthy landowner in the late 19th and early 20th century who held more than 40,000 acres of land across Los Angeles.
In November of 1947, The Broadway, a major department store in the 20th century, opened a $6 million, 200,000 square foot store in what was then called the Crenshaw Center. This retail development had a whopping 10-and-a-half acre, 2,200 car parking lot.
Read about how the Crenshaw Mall lost Walmart in 2016 - ourweekly.com/news/2016/jan/21... This was the only Walmart in the bounds of Los Angeles until it closed in 2016.
Sears was another major anchor until it closed in 2019 ourweekly.com/news/2019/nov/14...
Read about how the CIM Group planned on purchasing the mall in 2020, but backed out - www.bizjournals.com/losangele...
Downtown Crenshaw Rising came close to purchasing the mall in 2021, but its bid was denied. thehill.com/homenews/state-wa...
This LA Times article covers the Harridge Development Group, which bought the mall in August 2021 with a $111 million bid - www.latimes.com/business/stor...
Let's connect on the web!
Website: Ericmcraig.com
Instagram: / ericmcraig_
Twitter: / ericmcraig_
Reddit: / southla
Facebook: / thesouthlarecap
This story brought back a lot of good memories. My family moved from Watts, to Windsor Hills, in 1963. I went to Audubon, and Dorsey. My folks got me a car when I was sixteen. Quite often, we look back over our lives, and realize how good we had it. I knew it back then, when I was 16, cruising through the hills, with my girlfriend Kitty.
That’s such a cool throwback. Sounded like fun!
💜Back in the day my stepdad worked at The Broadway. Me and my boyfriend Greg would meet with other teens in the parking lot at night and then go to Exposition (between Crenshaw and La Brea) to watch the street races.
@@karenditto6213 🥰
Hello fellow alumni, Dorsey 1965 - 1968
I was raised on Overhill and Slauson 67 went to Orvillewright and Westchester 83-86 then before that st.Bernadette’s on Marlton ave. Don Felipe and took martial arts at the YMCA at bottom of hill next to old Baldwin shopping center late 79-82
I was 7 years old when the Crenshaw Mall had its Grand Opening. Tommy Dorsey's Band as well as Jimmy Dorsey's Band were the main entertainment feature that day. I walked down from 11th Avenue and 23rd Street where I lived. Today, that house sitting on the edge of the 10 Freeway sold recently for over a million dollars.
This is some insane history. I had no idea about that opening performance…
Such a different time…but the area is hot for the real estate market. $1 million!
Wow.
I briefly lived in Los Angeles in the mid-2010s and I would come to this mall every now and then. I've always been fascinated by Black Los Angeles and its history (I have relatives there from the Great Migration), and as someone who has lived in two "meccas" for black people (DC and Atlanta), I really appreciate the uniqueness and vibe of Black LA. Awesome job with this video!
Continue to offer outstanding research and content about Black Los Angeles. You are doing a great job. Besides, I admire your professionalism
Thank you! I really appreciate your kind words! I just really hope this content can continue to help people understand South LA’s unwise and dynamic past (and future).
This is an awesome report. I grew up in View Park. My family shopped at this shopping center all of my young life. The JJ Newberry had a crazy candy aisle with every jolly rancher and Now & Later flavor you can imagine.. We shopped at the Lindbergs Nutrition, the Kinney's shoes and the Vons Market. My uncle had even invested in a restaurant there. This was all before they built the mall building that stands in the space now. Back in the day,, all the buildings were stand alone..
If I had to guess, there are two issues here. As the initiative to rid View Park, Baldwin Hills and Windsor Hills and Ladera Heights of it's black residential predominance proceeds, it is no surprise to me that this mall finds itself in limbo yet again. We know who is moving in and they want US out. What's worse, many of us can't hold on to the properties our parents and grandparents worked so hard to purchase. It is all very disturbing to see happen.
I also think it pertinent to mention that many of us would rather shop in other areas. The patrons of the mall are often Shady and that is a turn off for many people. When Magic Johnson opened his theater, each movie had an intro video asking people to please act right and refrain from talking and fighting, that was always a bad sign to me. If you have to ask hoodrats and gang members not to mess up your establishment, you are starting from a negative number already and the taxpayers are not going to want to deal with that. Also, many of the stores began to target the lower income residents of the city and any mid-level to upscale stores vacated. Sorry, I don't shop at Rainbow or RayRay's Men's Habidashery. Until Post & Beam, I had not been back to the mall in years.
The problem is conditional, cyclical and very sad.
Great report. Thank you.
Thank you for your comment. I mean your comment encapsulates so much that had gone right and wrong with this mall.
Rising home prices and rising property taxes are two elements that make selling property in this area even fathomable. I couldn’t imagine giving up a home filled with so much history, determination, and hope. But the people who are able to buy those homes have so much more capital-and different ideas on what they want the View Park-Windsor Hills, Baldwin Hills, and Crenshaw neighborhoods to be.
At best, we need to continue to preserve this history so it isn’t wiped out by developers going rampant.
This mall has so much potential, but it really depends on the plans of the mall’s new owner, and how much pressure it will have to build new housing
@@SouthLARecap I totally agree. This whole City has so much history that is being lost at an alarming rate. The local and state government has failed us. There is a homeless encampment outside my front door right now. It is truly sad. One day at a time. Who knows, maybe we will collaborate one one of these one day.
Sad but true I'm probably a lot older than most of the people that watch that watch shows on RUclips but I can totally remember the downfall of Marina del Rey there was a red onion at one time many years ago not sure what years but I graduated in 1985 and I believe it was still pretty big at that time but I could be wrong with the years but at one time it was extremely popular with all different genres races cultures you would walk down stairs enjoyed margaritas chips and salsa a real pretty cool club that that area didn't have to many off the red onion was kind of multicultural a club for everyone pretty much! So like any restaurant club there were problems sometimes but really not any big deals! Sure there were other places around but really none that were had to many different cultures! Sure there was brenens which was pretty much an Irish bar with turtle racing I went there once and it's pretty much a white bar! I'm not saying that necessarily Abad thing! However I should say I am white it just wasn't my thing
I like The Red Onion a lot I can't remember if it was an over 21 place I think it might have been after like 9! Anyways after while people started noticing the crowd was getting rougher and rougher a lot of tougher people showing up not necessarily just black people or Mexicans also White kind of shady guys there and eventually the management started making the dress code stricter and stricter and if I remember correctly someone got shot either inside or outside I can't remember and that was part of the downfall of that red onion in Marina del Rey including a lot of other establishments like Magic Johnson's TGIF and the lauritas kind of fell apart after that sure there were many other reasons but it did happen and then I believe a few years after that for many years after that I'm not sure one of my favorite restaurants Aunt kizzy's soul food I don't know the reasons for that probably the rent was way too expensive mypoints is without the right clientele and it really has nothing to do with black people or Mexican people or bikers it has to do with many issues and probably some of those are the issues
Interesting but I don't agree altogether. The black residents are fine. They can't be removed unless they sell. The problem isn't View Park, Baldwin or Windsor Hills. The problem has been the bad elements coming from the eastside. This happened to Fox Hills as well. The Culver city demographics didn't change much but after the closing of the Hawthorne Mall the void created sent many of those from the hood that frequented there and the Hawthorne 6 to migrate to FHM and at it's lowest point it looked more like a flee market. The renovation helped bring more neighborhood folks back and it stay pretty busy. BHCM has a problem. It to close to the hood. The retailers don't want to take a chance. Even with the aesthetic upgrades and new food court it still only feels like a high end swap meet. Evergreen Plaza in my home town of Chicago suffered the same fate. Once a very high end shopping center it came into ruin and abandonment when the neighborhood changed. Bulldoze the entire thing and start from scratch. "Build it and they will come" I say. Leimert Park along Crenshaw needs a good front facing as well. We should stop telling ourselves that DINGY passes for CHARACTER. The tide is turning. Some things just can't be helped.
When Walmart left, the downfall of the Crenshaw Mall began
HOLY SHIT YOU ARE SO RIGHHTTT, THE WALMART WAS SO BIG AND HAD ALMOST EVERYTJING YOU NEEDED AND IT WAS SO BUSTLING, and now…Crenshaw mall is still very nice but it just doesn’t have the same crowd it used to and this is coming from a kid who’s lived literally only 5 minutes away ever since birth
Yes I feel so sad thinking about it going as an kid and also fat burgers closed was an little downfall also
@@michelsmith5873 Fatburger is no more😮 I have not lived in LA for 20 years. I remember no one wanted that Walmart in Baldwin Hills
The downfall was all the stealing going on at walmart !!
That's true. I lived in the Jungles at that time.
I'm So Glad Your Telling The Story of my childhood Naborhood to the new comers
Definitely. We all need to know and remember where we come from-and why things are the way they are (usually for a reason). Thanks for watching!
I have so many good memories of this mall. This is where I hung out with friends when I was in high school. I saw a lot of movies at the theater too when they opened the Magic Johnson Theatre in the mid 90s and I worked at the theater part time while attending West L.A. College. I also met Magic Johnson a number of times. He is a cool dude. Before that I used to go to the Baldwin Hills theater on Coliseum and LaBrea till it closed. So we were thrilled about the Magic theater.
My Mother worked at the Broadway in the late 1950's -early 60's. She said it was usual for celebrities to come into the Broadway and shop.! I always found that interesting. I remember shopping at Von's J J Newberrys and Woolworth's as well. Another great Video.
In 1953 I went to work at the Von's market on Crenshaw. The Crenshaw district and Baldwin Hills was never considered South LA. Baldwin Hills was where the rich people lived and shoppers at the mall and Von's were 99.9% white. At the time I lived at home on 88th Place and San Pedro. I graduated from Fremont High and I know what it was like back then. I'm a Mexican from a broken home and grew up in South Central.
At age ten I started working at the El Indio tortilla factory on Broadway and 92nd Street. I worked every morning from 6:00 AM until just before school started at about 9:00 AM. My grandmother got me the job because she shopped there and knew Oscar, the owner.
In the early 70's I lived in Fox Hills before the Fox Hills mall was built. Look at it now. Is it still open?
In a way I feel sorry for you because you're trying to find answers that agree with your narrative. It's as simple as this. Stores stay open if they are making money. Stores close if they aren't making money and the only color a business cares about is Green, as in the color of money.
The Fox Hills Mall is still opened
You must be older than me, wow, great report appreciate it. Back in your day as I recall there were quite a few whites, blacks and Asians but not too many Mexicans. How things have changed.
I thought they were going to show the back side of the mall with all the old shops. I used to love that as a lil kid in the 70’s going to Woolworth n wilco,shoe stores, ice cream shop through the early 80’s then as that was happening we started going to The Fox Hills mall that really sealed the deal. But I did love my neighborhood Baldwin hills Crenshaw district. I remember there being a soda n ice cream shop on Crenshaw near 43 next to the KDAY sign strip area in early 80’s called the “Strawberry split” I battled a guy in there poplockin to double Dutch bus or Genius of love great times! My parents moved there in late 1960’s when I was born. I lived on Onacrest off Overhill/ Slauson around the corner from Windsor hills elementary.
That Magic Johnson theatre was EPIC
I grew up in the area and recall the Muslims had a bakery and sold their bean pies at the street corners. We shopped over in the area this was as a little girl. Then came the Mall. I worked for Sears in Inglewood and they closed it down and we worked at the new location. Gosh good memories. The Mall did not have a lot of stores even back then. I recall my first car and my ex boyfriend came up to the mall and to say hi. When I got off my license plate was missing. I know he did it because I did not have my car for long. Many fond memories.
I just ran across your youtube channel today and I'm glad I did. I'm sure I'll be checking out much more of your content in the coming weeks. Thanks for doing this work!👍
Thanks you, iguillo. I’m always glad that I’m able to share this with people. Thanks for your support!
Growing up in the 90's Going to Magic Johnson Theaters, Taco Bell/Fatburger/Rally's, and The Crenshaw Mall was my whole weekend and summer.
Thank you. I enjoyed your video!
Thank you, Wendy. I’m really glad you’ve enjoyed them so far!
Great reporting as usual. The Crenshaw-Baldwin Hills district was once one of L.A County’s famed Rancheros and has always attracted enterprising visionaries. Even before the development of the Crenshaw-Baldwin Hills Mall, there was a famed Golf Course and Airport. I know it is considered controversial but I look forward to the multiethnic gentrification of the area. African Americans are unique in Los Angeles because historically they only support their communities when they are forced to, but when they have the opportunity they will flee to other communities to live or shop in, such as the Fox Hills Mall and Beverly Hills Center. This is why the Crenshaw Mall has had so many issues.
Walked to Crenshaw Mall in the 60's and never got bothered, Attended Dorsey High School then was the best time where everyone got along.
I went to Audubon and Dorsey between 1956 and 1961 and as I recall vividly there were racial tensions. The triangles at Dorsey were voluntarily segregated mostly. A or B triangle being mostly black. To be sure there was some racial mixing and there were no segregation rules, it was all voluntary. There were also social clubs like The Baron's, the sultan's, the bishops and the Pharaohs these were mostly for the cool white kids. I wasn't cool so didn't belong to one. The white girls also had their exclusive clubs predecessors to College sororities and fraternities. Segregation of course occurs within races as well. It was quite an experience growing up in that environment.
Great video 📹
Thank you! I appreciate it!
Excellent content. I love it. It was nice meeting you yesterday.
I appreciate this, man. Nice meeting you too! Looking forward to hearing more of your poetry!
It's funny how The May Co another major retail store such as the Broadway wascompletely skipped over. The May Co was directly across from The Broadway.
Love this video
Nice video!
Thanks for this. I've always loved the Shopping Center and watched it go through almost every iteration since the Dam ruptured. Including how how Fox Hills drew business away is indicative of how the Community was enticed to move its dollars away from Crenshaw gave your piece additional historical depth.
Those 42 acres are way too valuable for the current dated structure. I don't doubt there will be additional scoping meetings to move away from the Capri development plans and into something newer and even more modern. Hopefully the office building, housing and hotel plans remain without increasing the density that was approved. All the surrounding apartments under construction and the rail stop will demand Baldwin Crenshaw's update. Including the City infrastructure and greening to support it all is important, as well.
And thank you for adding this insight, too. But my guess is building more density, especially with tax credits for high density residential projects. We’ll probably start seeing these developments take form starting next year.
Cool content 🔥
I remember staying in the Jays and going to audu-dud in 81..used to help ladies to the car with groceries at Boys market labrea n ro-dee-oh...seen Ester Rolle at that thriftys onetime...she gave me a dolla and said save if for college...soon as she drove off i went n got me a triple scoop pistachio 40c and six packs of now laters...then went across the street and played video games in newberrys...we would bang a penny to the size of a quarter and get that freah popcorn from the machine....we had it made👍👍👍
Wow, what a wonderful job you did on the this..
I still remember going to the Thrifty's , JJ Newberry and the Lloyds Bank. In the 80's I purchased my shoes from Foot Action and gifts at the Broadway.. I remember the renovation, and a bridge was constructed to take you across Crenshaw Blvd and, Santa Barbara..
I wasn't happy about the fact that we want to shop at Black Owned businesses and when the opportunity arises, we take our money out of the community..
Hey Eric, I know you’re most likely not gonna even see this anymore but this mall is literally less than 5 minutes away from my house and I go almost every week very often thanks to their cinema right next door, I grew up on the place ever since I was born, I go to that damned cinema every single time a movie comes out, even during big events like No Way home lmao, the place has been a piece of my upbringing for years as a Chicano kid, especially since of its area and being so close lmao, it holds a special place in my heart even if it’s crowd has dried up quite a bit, thanks for this video bro.
Hey! I always check for comments every day. But I'm really glad that I was able to share this with you--and that you've had such a positive experience with this mall. It's a crucial addition to South LA as a whole.
I remember when that cinema used to be a Magic Johnson Movie Theater and I had the opportunity to watch a bunch of big releases there. Good times.
Feel free to drop any more memories, or to ask any questions/request video anywhere in the comment section on my videos. Always glad to look into them!
I remember going to Crenshaw Mall with my mom and grandma as a kid in the early 90s. Then going to the incense shop and Wienerschnitzel afterwards....lol good times! 🤙🏽💜
Bro, I hope you’re willing able to do a history of the other shopping center behind the Crenshaw Mall. Mark ton Square/Santa Barbara plaza.
It was there for ages and mostly vacant for much of my life. I know there was an active swap meet in there at one point. The battle over ownership was a mess and I think it’s still ongoing even though they’ve torn down and redeveloped most of it. Idk when it opened and if the Crenshaw Mall caused its decline.
I spent a lot of time at the Baldwin Hills Mall as well as the Magic Johnson Theater
This is My favorite we go here all day (not all day but sometimes) it’s sad that Walmart,sears,Macy and shoe line are closing!! This mall is missing things but LOVE IT
Omg thank you for sharing this I haven’t been back for almost 20 something years I met “2Pac randomly at the Mall and got a warm big hug from him. It was so sad two weeks later I saw the news that he was assassinated. 😥🎚
Woah. That’s pretty neat. You’re lucky have experience some real history there!
@@SouthLARecap I might be the first Asian that hugs 2Pac. 😂 lol
I spent my childhood in this mall
I remember going to the Crenshaw Mall Grand Opening. Everything was brand new. Even as a kid I questioned why someone would open a Laserdisk store there. Other stores didn't make much sense so I'm not surprised it had a rough start. Today I still go to the mall and try to buy what I need at the Crenshaw Mall to keep my money in my community. Many of my friends that live in the area don't like going because it's small and go to other malls instead spending their money in other communities then wonder why we don't have anything nice in ours.
Hi Eric, I'm doing a research project on historic buildings in LA and how policies have impacted the building over time and I thought the Crenshaw mall might be perfect for that. I would love to talk to you about getting sources and learning more about this! I'm a UCLA masters student in urban planning
Hey Nicole! I’d be happy to help where I can. Shoot over to my website to start an email chain. Looking forward.
Excellent video bruh! I just wanted to say that I remember The Broadway dept store very well. When I was 11yrs old back in 1974 my brother and I decided to run in the store and play on the escalator. My idiot self though that the moving stairs were going too slow so I decided to grab the rubber handrail with my right hand and push it forward over and over while standing at the bottom of the escalator. Well that didn't turn out well for me because my hand got caught in between where the handrail disappears back into the structure. The rubber started burning my fingers as I was screaming for help. The security guard was at the top of the stairs looking down at me. I told him to turn the stairs off but there wasn't a stop button on it. He then ran down and pulled my hand from the escalator which scraped a good portion of skin off as a result. I was taken to the hospital by my mother who was hysterical at this point. The doctors did a skin graf from my arm and replacing it onto my fingers. Needless to say I never went on the escalator for a few years thereafter. GOOD TIMES:)
Ouch! Now that’s a story to remember
Just came across this channel. I grew up around this Mall. My first job as a teenager was stocking the shoes at the Kenny's shoe store (Before the mall was enclosed). Last week it was announced Macy's would be closing. That is the last anchor store to close (Sears and Walmart already gone). Unfortunately I do not see this mall remaining open, even with the Metro stop.
Thanks for stopping by, Wilbert! And thanks for sharing your recount of the mall. Macy’s is definitely a hard hit. The Farmers’ market recently moved from the parking lot of the mall to another location on Crenshaw.
The days for this mall are numbered, unfortunately.
@@SouthLARecap WOW did not know the Farmers Market moved. Where on Crenshaw did it move to?
@@wilbertwilson9387 5730 Crenshaw - the AFIBA parking lot. Check out this post from the market’s Instagram - instagram.com/p/CnAdjPOyCK0/?igshid=Zjc2ZTc4Nzk=
About 1950 they built May Company Crenshaw. Today its Macy's. My mom worked there from 1952 to 1965. She once told me that shoplifting had become such a problem that there had to be a security person in every department on every shift. That really hurts profits in any business. The 1960's demographic change was largely because the Supreme Court outlawed discriminatory contracts preventing house sales to minorities. Middle class blacks in large numbers moved out of the old neighborhoods served by Manual Arts and Fremont high schools and into Dorsey and Washington areas. Many of my memories from the 1950's involve the May Company store.
Originally there was a little booth on the northwest corner of the building's roof where an employee guided people to parking spaces from loud speakers on the light poles.
Do you prefer the old mall to the present day mall?
@@SouthLARecap It was not a mall in my day. King Blvd. (Santa Barbara) separated the May Co. side from the Broadway side. Both stores had display windows along Crenshaw and they had the animated Christmas displays that all department stores used to have. Then thieves started to break the windows and that had to go away. Sad. I joined the Air Force in 1959 so I don't live around there any longer. My mom moved away after my dad died in 1965.
@@tommaddux7186 this is fascinating. Thanks for sharing this additional detail about what this mall used to be!
Great video. I also like your backdrop of two different colored lights against a white wall. I grew up in the village Green from 1943 until I left Los Angeles in 1963. I attended Audubon Junior high and Dorsey high. My dad typically took me to JCPenney's in the Crenshaw mall to buy clothes. There was a Mobil gas station with a rotating flying red horse atop a tall sign that was enjoyable to watch. Rudy's Italian restaurant was a popular eatery south of MLK which was then called Santa Barbara Street. I was at the grand opening of the Baldwin theater in 1949 and met Roy Rogers outside.
Rudy's at the S/W corner of Crenshaw and Coliseum. Holiday Bowl across the street north of Majestic Pontiac dealership - if my memory is correct.
@@mikejung1582 thank you that sounds about right. I worked at the Union Gas Station on Rodeo and LaBrea and my boss, Ben Sutton used to take the whole bunch of us to Rudy's once a year for dinner. 1960 to 1963 and probably a few more years after I quit.
@@skcyclist Union station was on the S/E corner of LaBrea & Rodeo(?) I went to the movies and graduated from Dorsey at the Baldwin Hills theatre. I vaguely remember my mom and sis walked from Cherrywood to Rudy's and remember (if possible) a price for Prime rib lunch was $5 something b/t '65 and '68. Lots of fond memories. I worked for L.A. County Sheriff and met (3) classmates who were in jail, one of which dated back prior to 1965 at Audubon.Junior High.
@@mikejung1582 great to hear from you, yes it was on the Southeast corner. I also went to the movies and graduated from the Baldwin theater in winter of 1961. I went from graduation straight to work and Ben Sutton greeted me with a handshake containing a $5 bill.
I was born downtown Los Angeles and raised in the Village Green, the first residents at 5130.
@@mikejung1582 too bad about your friends from Audubon where I also went.
If you remember the Rodney King beating, you might recall the officer-in-charge was Stacey Koon who also went to Audubon and Dorsey a few years after me.
I read his book and got the impression he may have saved Rodney King's life yet he ended up being a Fall Guy and served a year or two in jail.
Moreover, Koon wasn't the best name for a white guy to have at Dorsey or Audubon Junior High during those years.
You also forgot that JC Penny's is still an anchor at this mall. I miss the buffet at this mall
JCPenney is at the fox hills mall. Crenshaw was Sears. Now it's just Macy's.
it’s sad that when there are videos about the mall and shopping center before it. it is always pictures from 50’s/60’s and then 89/90. never any pics from the late 70’s or mid 80’s.
You’re right. LA Times was the main publication reporting on the mall, and they neglected it as the Crenshaw neighbors transitioned demographics. In the late 70s they published a several page article on how neighbor blight decimated the mall, but never a detailed look inside it…
@@SouthLARecap yeah i have good memories of that place. my family shopped at the shopping center up until everything completely closed for mall construction, and i watched the mall be built on my way back and forth from The J’s to Audubon in Jr. High. So the lack of photos from that time depresses me.
Didnt the Baldwin hills dam break gave a significant effect on the arra
Half of the buildings on Crenshaw are owned by a small group of Jewish families. If they didn’t accept the larger offer, it was because they didn’t want the mall those buyers hands.
macy’s recently closed a few months ago😢
Yeah, it’s really sad. TJ Maxx is the last anchor store
It has a creepy empty feel to it last time I went in 2017, I saw almost 0 foot traffick minus the food court. I got a response from the owner on another RUclipsrs video talking about a redevelopment with a hospital and mix used property
I’ve heard about the mix-used property plans being built near the Albertsons. Regardless, it’s a crazy amount of land for an urban area
@@SouthLARecap oh ok, I'm not the only one that knows about that XD. My aunt knew Magic Johnson and when she sadly got alzheimer, he knew she frequented the theater a lot and let the employees know how to handle her on the property when he owned it. Employees would make sure she didn't give too much cash and even assisted her to films in the theater. She's sadly passed away, but she was a regular at Magic Johnson Theater for years! Sorta wish he kept the theater.
The Game force store ironically gets more foot traffick than the GameStop because they would undercut them in prices and trade in's
I am SO JEALOUS this mall has a Rally's in its food court. There are NO Rally's in the San Fernando Valley, where I live (and I do NOT consider Glendale as part of the San Fernando Valley)
New laws will cause many middle class people to sell their houses in Baldwin Hills, Liemert Park,Ladera etc. A new law allows people to tear down any single family house in Los Angeles and replace it with a fourplex and this will increase the prices of houses. It will also turn quiet peaceful neighborhoods of single family houses into noisy crowded neighborhoods occupied by renters.
Another law was recently passed by wording it in a confusing manner that makes property taxes on inherited houses skyrocket. For the last 60 years , if you inherited your parents' house , you kept their property taxes even if you rented out the house.
When was the last time you've been to the Crenshaw Mall?
A few weeks ago!
Yesterday,went shopping at Carter’s,tj max and had a slice of pizza at Sabarro!!! Can we have the playground open plz!!! Also the people you see at the mall are wonderful full of life and power
@@alma2005 that’s so great you were able to get all of your errands done at the mall. The pizza sounds good.
But your comment shows that this mall is still important to our community. Hopefully the coming changes will make it even better for you!
Not recently.
Last week. Eventhough a couple of stores are shut down, I like the stillness of the mall. I don't feel rushed when I'm shopping but relaxed. It's like this at other malls too, but this one is more homier. I miss the seating area that had the pretty plants and the jazz music playing.
How about my first Bobby Brown tape Girl Don't Be Cruel
I hope they keep the African Film Festival and Market Place and actually advertise it not on a last minute level.
That would be nice. So far it seems like they’re very receptive to community events. Hopefully it will stay that way
@@SouthLARecap As long as we don't get "out of line" with the new and returning company.
On another note, I just want us to come together economically especially in that area. We should be owning majority of those apartment buildings in Leimert, and from Slauson to Exposition, just about covering the Crenshaw District. The artwork/murals that help define this community, I hope they preserve them well and that there is more to come... There is so much more to talk about