Whittier Downs Shopping Center

Whittier Downs Shopping Center was a 200,000-square-foot (19,000 m2) shopping center that served the community of West Whittier-Los Nietos, California from the 1950s through the 1980s, anchored by J. C. Penney. The center is at Washington and Norwalk boulevards and within the city limits of Santa Fe Springs. Pereira & Luckman were the architects.[1]

The center opened in 1955 with parking for 740 cars. Unusually, shops faced both a pedestrian mall as well as the parking lot.[2][3][4]

In the late 1980s, the mall was demolished and the site was redeveloped into the Santa Fe Springs Marketplace, a large strip mall anchored by a supermarket and large pharmacy.[5]

References
  1. University of California, Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection, Whittier Downs Shopping Center, Santa Fe Springs
  2. "Whittier Area Center Slated". Los Angeles Times. January 24, 1954.
  3. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52615055/in-new-project/
  4. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52615111/project-furthered/
  5. "Springs agency OKs move to join redevelopment land". East Review (Whittier, California}. November 17, 1988.

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