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Article: Revitalizing downtown: a tough job. (downtown shopping centers in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Long Beach) (California supplement)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- May 31, 1988
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REVITALIZING DOWNTOWN
A TOUGH JOB LOS ANGELES -- Surrounded by suburban shopping centers and facing urban decay, downtown retailers in Southern California's largest cities became endangered species during the Seventies.
In San Diego and Long Beach, none of the four Southern California-based department stores were operating downtown and in Los Angeles, a once thriving downtown business had withered.
Hope for downtown was rekindled in the early Eighties by Ernest Hahn, Inc., the West's largest shopping center developer, who saw an opportunity in turning blighted areas into large suburban-type shopping centers anchored by major stores.
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