• The Promenade at Downey is a 77-acre (31 ha), 656,000-square-foot (60,900 m2) retail power center in Downey, California, built on the 1,500,000-square-foot...
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    Memorial Space Center, Downey Landing shopping center, Promenade at Downey shopping center (the former movie studio site of Downey Studios), a Kaiser Permanente...
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    remainder of the space. In October 2012 demolition of Downey Studios had begun. The Promenade at Downey retail power center is located on the site today....
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    in the retail economy at the time. From its modest outlet at the end of Slauson Avenue near a cow pasture, FEDCO sold wares at extraordinary discounts...
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    Ralphs teamed with S. A. Francis in 1873 to open the Ralphs & Francis store at 5th and Hill – an area which would become the Historic Core of the city in...
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    Supermarket News. Beckerman, Josh (September 23, 2014). "Smart & Final IPO prices at low end of range". MarketWatch. "Smart & Final Takes Over Former Haggen Grocery...
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    thereafter the business took off, spawning 100 stores in the region by 1980, at which point Miller sold his company to Amcena Corporation. The new owner continued...
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  • acquired the twelve-story Milliron's building at 312 W. 5th St., corner of Broadway in August 1953. At the time, Broadway was approaching the end of its...
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  • and San Diego County. It entered the Fortune 500 for the first time in 2006 at #493, the first notable Inland Empire–based company to do so. In 2006, the...
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  • entrance) and jewelry. One innovation the store offered — found nowhere else at the time — was the storing and delivery of already purchased groceries when...
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    parent. Branches were located in Palm Springs (1947), Woodland Hills (The Promenade) (1973; 80,000 square feet), Newport Beach (Fashion Island) (1977; 80...
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  • opens first Nevada location at Meadows Mall". news3lv.com. KSNV. Chris Kudialis (2016-10-01). "Opening draws long lines at Nevada's first Curaçao store"...
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    is a thirteen-story Art Deco building designed by Claud Beelman located at 849 S. Broadway in the Broadway Theater District of Downtown Los Angeles....
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  • plan out". Independent. 9 February 1974. p. 13. Retrieved 28 March 2024. "Downey Shopping Center ad". The Los Angeles Times. 10 October 1963. p. 186. Retrieved...
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  • Pic 'N' Save Corporation (later MacFrugals) was at one time the second-largest closeout retail chain in the United States. Financial troubles caused the...
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  • Oyl's voiceover ended up saying "Go shopping with Popeye at Alpha Beta" and "Tell A Friend" at the end of the Alpha Beta commercial in the 80s.[citation...
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    was at 416-8 W. Seventh Street, between Olive and Hill, about 17,000 sq ft (1,600 m2) in size, in addition to the 4th & Broadway store and a store at the...
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    allowed a form of "borrowing" but ensured that the funds could only be spent at Fedco. Lines included general merchandise, grocery, and, in some locations...
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  • furniture, appliances and jewelry aimed at Latino residents. In the 1960s the Los Angeles buying office and plant was at 3030 South Atlantic Boulevard in Vernon...
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    Schwab's Pharmacy was a drugstore located at 8024 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California, and was a popular hangout for movie actors and movie industry...
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    Mirada Mall* Plaza México Promenade at Downey Quad at Whittier Santa Fe Springs Mall* Santa Fe Springs Shopping Center* Shops at Montebello Stonewood Center...
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  • Cue. The buyout included a handful of On Cue stores. Trans World operated at a net loss from 2006 to 2010. In fiscal year 2011 it turned a profit of $2...
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  • Records."[citation needed] Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, worked at one on Sunset Boulevard in the early 1980s, where he first printed and sold...
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    S. L. Powers & Co. opened The Great Cash Bargain Store on July 28, 1904, at 32 Pine Street (later 332 Pine) in the then-new W. H. Martin Building. On...
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    will be conducted at 1 p.m. Friday at the Westchester Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints. He died Tuesday of heart disease at the Centinela Valley...
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    the early 1900s by W. H. ("Herb") Wise. In 1894 Wise opened a grocery store at Cherry Ave. and Third Street in Long Beach. On July 28, 1902, he opened "The...
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  • went public with a public offering of 750,000 shares under the symbol WEI. At this time, the company had 126 stores, primarily in California. In 1984, the...
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  • Downtown Los Angeles from 1896 until late 1922. The Hub opened on March 16, 1896 at 154 (154–200) N. Spring St. in the Bullard Block. In August of that same year...
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    Mirada Mall* Plaza México Promenade at Downey Quad at Whittier Santa Fe Springs Mall* Santa Fe Springs Shopping Center* Shops at Montebello Stonewood Center...
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    of the Downey Block, at the NW corner of Temple/Main, 1880s North end of the Downey Block along the west side of Main St., 1887. Temple Block at left;...
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