La Habra Marketplace
An open-air community shopping center in La Habra, California, redeveloped from the former La Habra Fashion Square regional mall.
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Overview
La Habra Marketplace is an open-air shopping center in La Habra, California, on the site of the former La Habra Fashion Square. The original center was developed by the Bullock's department store chain and designed by Welton Becket and Associates. It was the last and largest of Bullock's Fashion Square malls, following earlier projects in Santa Ana, Sherman Oaks, and Del Amo. The property occupied approximately 40 acres and originally contained about 565,618 square feet of retail space, with the Bullock's department store accounting for roughly half of the area. La Habra Fashion Square opened with a department-store-led regional-mall format. Its principal tenants included Bullock's, Buffum's, Joseph Magnin, and Silverwoods. Smaller retailers 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 at the opening included Fiddler's Three, Don Paul, and Lyons. The center was intended to serve a broad regional trade area and depended in part on improved access between Imperial Highway and Beach Boulevard. The mall struggled commercially. Nearby competing shopping centers limited its ability to attract regional customers, while planned freeway improvements were not completed in time and did not deliver the expected traffic. By 1987, reported annual sales were approximately $27.8 million, placing the property near the bottom among Orange County regional malls. Its reported sales per square foot were also the lowest among the cited Southern California regional malls, at $50.78, compared with $190.09 at South Coast Plaza. Bullock's closed its La Habra store in 1992. The former department-store building was demolished in the late 1990s, and the enclosed or department-store-oriented mall format was replaced by smaller strip-mall buildings. The redeveloped property became La Habra Marketplace, a community shopping center with approximately 375,013 square feet of gross leasable area. Its listed tenants include Smart & Final, Ross Dress for Less, LA Fitness, Sprouts Farmers Market, and Regal Cinemas. The property therefore represents a transition from a struggling regional fashion mall to a more convenience-oriented, open-air retail center serving the local community.
History
La Habra Marketplace originated as La Habra Fashion Square, a regional shopping mall built by the Bullock's department store chain in La Habra, California. The project was designed by Welton Becket and Associates and formed part of Bullock's broader Fashion Square concept. It followed Fashion Square developments in Santa Ana, Sherman Oaks, and Del Amo, and was described as the final and largest center in that group. The original property covered approximately 40 acres and provided about 565,618 square feet of retail space. Bullock's was the dominant anchor, occupying approximately half of the center's retail area; by 1987, the store was reported at about 271,000 square feet. Other major and junior department stores included Buffum's, Joseph Magnin, and Silverwoods. The center also offered a broad mixture of specialty shops, banks, food retailers, and restaurants. Its opening tenant roster 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, along with Fiddler's Three, Don Paul, and Lyons. The mall's regional ambitions were undermined by its location and transportation conditions. Competing malls were close enough to constrain its customer draw, while expected freeway links involving Imperial Highway and Beach Boulevard were not completed in time and never generated the anticipated traffic. The result was weak trading performance compared with other regional malls in Orange County and Southern California. In 1987, the center's reported annual sales were $27.8 million, described as second to last among Orange County's 14 regional malls. Its sales productivity was reported at $50.78 per square foot, the lowest among 48 Southern California regional malls in the cited comparison; South Coast Plaza, by contrast, was reported at $190.09 per square foot. Bullock's closed its store at the property in 1992. The building was subsequently demolished in the late 1990s, and the former mall site was rebuilt with strip-mall structures. The redeveloped center adopted the name La Habra Marketplace and a different retail model. Rather than relying on large fashion-oriented department stores, the new center emphasized grocery, value retail, fitness, entertainment, and local convenience. The current center is reported to contain approximately 375,013 square feet of gross leasable area. Listed tenants include Smart & Final, Ross Dress for Less, LA Fitness, Sprouts Farmers Market, and Regal Cinemas. The site's history illustrates the decline of a particular regional department-store mall format and its replacement by a more flexible community-shopping-center configuration.
- 1992
Bullock's closes its anchor store
[1]Bullock's closed the large department store that had been the principal anchor of La Habra Fashion Square.
- 1987
Weak sales performance documented
[1]The center was reported to have approximately $27.8 million in annual sales and very low sales productivity compared with other regional malls.
La Habra Fashion Square is developed
[1]Bullock's developed the regional mall in La Habra, with Welton Becket and Associates serving as architects. The project became the largest and final mall in Bullock's Fashion Square group.
Former mall site is redeveloped
[1]The Bullock's building was demolished in the late 1990s, and strip-mall buildings replaced the former regional-mall structures.
La Habra Marketplace operates as a community center
[1]The redeveloped property operates as an open-air shopping center with grocery, discount retail, fitness, and cinema tenants.
Products and positioning
A local-serving, open-air community shopping center focused on grocery, discount retail, fitness, entertainment, and everyday consumer needs rather than the regional department-store fashion-mall model of its predecessor.
Open-air community shopping center
La Habra Marketplace
The current retail property on the former La Habra Fashion Square site. It has approximately 375,013 square feet of gross leasable area and combines grocery, discount retail, fitness, entertainment, and other community-serving tenants.
Regional shopping mall
La Habra Fashion Square
The original Bullock's-developed regional mall on the site. It featured a large Bullock's department store, additional department-store anchors, specialty shops, restaurants, banks, and food retailers before being replaced by the current shopping-center format.
Brand decisions
1992
Closure of Bullock's anchor storeStrategyBackground
The dominant department-store anchor operated in a mall that had experienced weak sales and limited regional traffic.
Action taken
Bullock's closed its La Habra store, removing the principal anchor from La Habra Fashion Square.
Aftermath
The former store was later demolished, and the property moved toward a strip-style community shopping-center format.
- Redevelopment into La Habra MarketplaceStrategy
Background
The original regional mall faced disappointing sales, nearby competition, and weaker-than-expected traffic because planned transportation improvements were not delivered as anticipated.
Action taken
The former mall was rebuilt with strip-mall buildings and repositioned as La Habra Marketplace.
Aftermath
The site became a community-oriented open-air center anchored by grocery, value retail, fitness, and entertainment tenants.
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