Beverly Center

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Beverly Center
View from the intersection of La Cienega Blvd. and 3rd St.

Location	Los Angeles, California
Opening date	March 1982
Developer	A. Alfred Taubman, Sheldon Gordon & E. Phillip Lyon
Management	Taubman Centers
Owner	Taubman Centers
No. of stores and services	160+
No. of anchor tenants	3
No. of floors	8
Website	Beverlycenter.com

The Beverly Center is a shopping center in Los Angeles, California, United States.

1 Description
2 History
3 Local competitors
4 In popular culture
5 Trivia
6 Tenant Directory
7 External links

[edit] Description

The Beverly Center is a monolithic eight-story structure located at the edge of Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, California, between La Cienega and San Vicente boulevards. It serves the entire Los Angeles area. Its anchor tenants include Macy's, Bloomingdale's, and a 13-screen movie theater. While the mall features staples of American retail, such as Banana Republic, Victoria's Secret and Forever 21, it is also home to several high-end designer boutiques, including Armani Exchange, Just Cavalli, D&G Dolce & Gabbana, Louis Vuitton, Diesel, Lacoste, Dior, and Hugo Boss. The mall's Rooftop Terrace offers views of the Hollywood Hills, Downtown Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Westside.

Currently, the mall caters to the upscale customer and mostly contains stores and boutiques that are more expensive than those in a typical American mall.

[edit] History

Formerly, this site was a small amusement park featuring a ferris wheel and pony rides known as Kiddyland.

The Beverly Center was originally opened in 1982 by developers A. Alfred Taubman, Sheldon Gordon & E. Phillip Lyon. Originally anchored by Bullock's and The Broadway department stores, in 1993 Bullock's opened a separate Bullock's Men's store, before both stores were renamed Macy's in 1996. The Broadway closed its location in 1996 when it was absorbed into Macy's and its former store was reopened by as a Bloomingdale's in 1997.

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.

[edit] Local competitors

Located just a mile away is The Grove at Farmers Market. Opened in 2002, The Grove provides some competition to the Beverly Center; however, its retailers are tailored more to the upper middle-class market, while the Beverly Center targets the more upper class tourist and West Los Angeles markets.

[edit] In popular culture

Scenes from the movie Chopping Mall were shot at the Beverly Center in 1985.

A chapter in the 1985 Bret Easton Ellis novel Less Than Zero is set in The Beverly Center.

The Beverly Center was the setting of the 1991 film Scenes from a Mall starring Bette Midler and Woody Allen.

The Beverly Center played a part of the plot near the end of the 1997 disaster thriller Volcano (film) starring Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche. A triage and childcare center for neighboring Cedars-Sinai Medical Center was set up in the mall's Hard Rock Cafe. This was evacuated when a geyser of lava erupted out of San Vicente Boulevard, threatening the structure and its occupants.

[edit] Trivia

The externally-visible escalators of the center resemble similar escalators at the Pompidou Center in Paris, France; however, the escalators are currently being renovated, and by the end of 2007, will have a significantly different and more modern appearance.