Beverly Center

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Beverly Center
View from the intersection of La Cienega Blvd. and 3rd St.
View from the intersection of La Cienega Blvd. and 3rd St.
Facts and statistics
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
Total retail floor area 900,000 ft²
No. of floors 8
Website Beverlycenter.com

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

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[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. 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, Calvin Klein, Ben Sherman, Diesel, Gucci, Dior, and Hugo Boss. The mall's Rooftop Terrace offers sweeping views of the Hollywood Hills, Downtown Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Westside.

The Center's externally-visible escalators previously resembled similar escalators at the Pompidou Center in Paris, France; however, the escalators underwent renovation in 2007 and now have a significantly different appearance.

[edit] History

The Beverly Center was originally opened in 1982 by developers A. Alfred Taubman, Sheldon Gordon & E. Phillip Lyon. (The site's former occupant was a small amusement park featuring a ferris wheel and pony rides known as Kiddyland.) The mall contained the USA's first Hard Rock Cafe, being the third one after the London original and the initial North American one in Toronto. The Beverly Center was 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, and thus they complement each other. This can also be said for other shopping centers in the area such as Westfield Century City and the Westside Pavilion, which all draw different crowds from different places.

[edit] In popular culture

  • Scenes from the movie Chopping Mall were shot at the Beverly Center in 1985.
  • While under construction, the Beverly Center was used as the backdrop for the 1976 film "Lipstick"
  • Crispin Hellion Glover briefly references the Beverly Center in his song, Auto-Manipulator: "the fine clean girl at the Beverly Center..."
  • Usher The R&B singer alludes to the paparazi spotting him having an affair with a woman at the Beverly Center in his song, Confessions: "I was hand in hand in the Beverly Center like man not giving a damn who sees me."
  • In Totally Spies, the Beverley Hills Mall is similar to the Beverly Center.

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