La Habra Marketplace

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{{Infobox shopping mall

| name = La Habra Marketplace

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| location = La Habra, California, United States

| coordinates = {{Coord|33.9182|N|117.9640|W|type:landmark_region:US-CA|display=inline,title}}

| address =

| opening_date = August 10, 1968{{cite news |title=La Habra Fashion Square advertising supplement |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/382565139 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=14 March 1968}}

| closing_date = 1992 (Fashion Square)

| developer = Bullock's

| manager =

| previous_names = La Habra Fashion Square

| owner = DJM Capital

| architect =

| number_of_stores = 50+ (Fashion Square)

| number_of_anchors = 3 (Fashion Square){{cite book|title=Directory of major malls|year=1990|publisher=MJJTM Publications Corp.|page=50}}
5 (Marketplace)

| floor_area = {{convert|567864|sqft|m2}} (Fashion Square)
{{convert|375013|sqft|sqm}} (Marketplace)

| floors = 1

| website =

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File:Fashion Square Joseph Magnin.jpg department store, La Habra Fashion Square]]

La Habra Marketplace, formerly La Habra Fashion Square, is an open-air regional mall in La Habra, California, built by the Bullock's department store chain. Welton Becket and Associates were the architects.{{cite news |title=Joseph Magnin Joins Fashion Square Stores |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60982221/joseph-magnin-la-habra/ |work=Los Angeles Times |date=September 10, 1967}} It was the last and largest of the "Fashion Square" malls that it built, after Santa Ana, Sherman Oaks and Del Amo.{{cite web|url=https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/72729/13981564-MIT.pdf|author=David K. Cole|title=A Look at Multi-use Redevelopment|website=Dspace.mit.edu|access-date=22 April 2019}} The site measured {{convert|40|acre|sqm|adj=off}}, with {{convert|565,618|sqft|sqm|adj=off}} of retail space, of which the large Bullock's store represented about half.{{cite news |last1=Galante |first1=Mary Ann |title=Part of La Habra Mall Is Reportedly for Sale : Center Suffers From Poor Revenues; One of Its Three Owners Said to Be Willing to Sell at a Loss |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-07-07-fi-1349-story.html |access-date=March 24, 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=July 7, 1987}} The center has been re-developed into a strip mall called La Habra Marketplace.

Original tenants

Department stores (major and junior) at launch were:

Other stores at opening included Hickory Farms, B. Dalton Bookseller, Damon's, Draper's, Leed's, See's Candy, Slavick's Jewelers, United California Bank and Crocker-Citizens Bank. Restaurants included Fiddler's Three, Don Paul and Lyons.

Reception

Partially due to the proximity of other malls, and also that the envisioned Imperial Highway (SR-90) and Beach Boulevard (SR-39) freeways were not built in time and thus never brought the expected traffic, the mall turned out to be disappointing and generally had disappointing sales performance.

By 1987, at $27.8 million, annual sales were second to last of Orange County's 14 regional malls, and its sales per square foot were last of 48 regional malls in Southern California regional malls, at $50.78 versus, for example, $190.09 at South Coast Plaza.

The Bullock's store was closed in 1992,{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-05-21-fi-369-story.html|title=Macy to Close 8 Stores; 1,850 Jobs Affected : Retail: The owner of the Bullock's and I. Magnin chains is eliminating its poor performers, including the Bullock's store in La Habra's Fashion Square.|date=21 May 1992|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=22 April 2019}} razed in the late 1990s{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-06-20-me-15176-story.html|title=La Habra : Old Bullock's to Be Razed for New Mall|date=20 June 1995|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=22 April 2019}} and strip mall buildings were constructed in the mall's place.

Current shopping center

The community shopping center now on the site is named La Habra Marketplace and has {{convert|375013|sqft|sqm}} of gross leasable area.[https://web.archive.org/web/20200718233059/https://www.djmcapital.com/la-habra ] Current tenants include Smart & Final (formerly Drug Emporium), Ross Dress for Less, LA Fitness, Sprouts Farmers Market (formerly OfficeMax) and Regal Cinemas.{{cite web|url=https://djmleasing.com/center/la-habra-market-place/|title=La Habra Market Place - Center - DJM Leasing|website=Djmleasing.com|access-date=22 April 2019}}

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