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Left
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Moved or closed?
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Floor area (gross)
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Location
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Architects
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Current use
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SPRING ST. BETWEEN TEMPLE AND SECOND
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1884
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1898
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Moved to B’way
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Coulter’s
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Hollenbeck Block, SW corner 2nd & Spring
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Historic Broadway station
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1888
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1908
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Moved to 8th/B’way
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Hamburger’s
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Phillips Block, Franklin & Spring
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Burgess J. Reeve
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Site of City Hall
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1889
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1910
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Moved to B’way
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Mullen & Bluett
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101–5 N. Spring
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Empty lot
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1891
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1900
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Moved to 3rd/B’way
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Jacoby Bros.
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128–134(–138) N. Spring at Court
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Site of City Hall
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1895
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?
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The Hub
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Bullard Block, Spring at Court
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Morgan & Walls
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Site of City Hall
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BROADWAY north of 4th St.
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1893
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1898
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Moved to 317 B’way
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Ville de Paris[3] (A. Fusenot Co.)
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Potomac Block, 221-3 S. Broadway
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Block, Curlett & Eisen
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added to Coulter’s late 1907, demolished 1958, now a parking lot
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1895
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1915
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Moved to 7th St.
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Boston Dry Goods (J.W. Robinson Co.)
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237–241 S. Broadway
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Theodore Eisen and Sumner Hunt (architects of the Bradbury Building)
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Parking lot
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1898
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1905
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Moved to 200 block of B’way
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Coulter’s (1898–1905)
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317–325 S. Broadway through to 314–322 Hill Street[4] Homer Laughlin Building
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John B. Parkinson
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became Ville de Paris Now Grand Central Market
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1899[5] |
1935-6
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Moved to 605 B’way[6][7] |
Jacoby Bros.
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60,000 sq ft (5,600 m2)
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331-333-335 S. Broadway
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John B. Parkinson[8] |
Was “Boston Store” in late 1930s.[9] Currently independent retail. 2 of 4 floors were removed.
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1899
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?
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Moved to 455 B’way then 617 B’way
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I. Magnin/ Myer Siegel
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Irvine Byrne Block, 251 S. Broadway[10] |
Sumner Hunt
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Wedding chapel
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1905
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1917
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Moved to 7th St.
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Coulter’s
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157,000 sq ft (14,600 m2)[11] |
Potomac Block: 225-7-9 S. Broadway through to 224-6-8 S. Hill St. Late 1907 added 219-221-223 S. Broadway to store.
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Block, Curlett & Eisen
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demolished, site of parking lot
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1905
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1917
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Moved to 7th St.
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Ville de Paris
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96,000 sq ft (8,900 m2)[citation needed] |
317–325 S. Broadway through to 314–322 Hill Street[4] Homer Laughlin Building
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John B. Parkinson
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Grand Central Market
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1905
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1917
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Moved to 7th St.
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J. J. Haggarty Co. “New York Store’
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337–9 S. Broadway
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Independent retail. Only 2 stories remain.
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1909
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?
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?
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J. M. Hale (Hale’s)
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341-343-345 S. Broadway[12] |
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retail, top floors were removed
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BROADWAY south of 4th St.
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1896
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1973
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Moved to B’way Plaza
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The Broadway Dept. Store[13] |
1924, 577,000 sq ft (53,600 m2)[14] |
SW corner 4th & Broadway, later through to Hill
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Junipero Serra State Office Building
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1904
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?
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?
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Silverwoods
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1920: 115,420 sq ft (10,723 m2)[15] |
556 S. Broadway (NE corner of 6th)
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Broadway Jewelry Mart
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1905
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?
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Closed
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Fifth Street Store (Steele, Faris, & Walker Co.) Later called Walker’s
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1917: 278,640 sq ft (25,887 m2)[16] |
SW corner 5th & Broadway
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Replaced existing store with new building in 1917[16] Building later housed Ohrbach’s
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1906
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1986
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Moved to FIGat7th
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Hamburger’s After 1925: May Company
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1906: 482,475 sq ft (44,823.4 m2)[17][18] 1930, >1,000,000 sq ft (93,000 m2)[19] |
SW corner 8th & Broadway by 1930, entire block 8th/9th/Broadway/Hill
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Under renovation to become tech campus
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1907
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1983
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Closed, opened 1986 at FIGat7th
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Bullock’s
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1907: 350,000 sq ft (33,000 m2) 1934: 806,000 sq ft (74,900 m2)[20] |
NW corner 7th & Broadway by 1934, most of the block 6th/7th/Broadway/Hill
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Parkinson & Bergstrom
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St. Vincents Jewelry Mart
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1907
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1908
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Central Department Store[21] |
85,000 sq ft (7,900 m2), [22] |
609–619 S. Broadway
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Samuel Tilden Norton
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Demolished, now site of Los Angeles Theatre
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1910
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1960s
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Mullen & Bluett
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610 S. Broadway (Walter P. Story Bldg.)[23] |
Morgan, Walls & Clements
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Mixed-use
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1917
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Blackstone’s
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118,800 sq ft (11,040 m2)[24] |
901 S. Broadway (SE corner 9th)
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John Parkinson
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Building became The Famous, now residential, retail
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1924
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1972[25] |
Abandoned Downtown L.A.
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Desmond’s
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85,000 sq ft (7,900 m2)[26] |
616 S. Broadway
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A. C. Martin[27] |
Renovated 2019 as office space, a restaurant and a rooftop bar.[26] |
1930
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1957[28] |
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Eastern Columbia
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1930: 275,650 sq ft (25,609 m2)[29] (expanded through to Hill St. in 1950)[30] |
849 S. Broadway through to Hill
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Claud Beelman
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luxury condos
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1936[7] |
1938[31] |
Company liquidated
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Jacoby Bros.
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605 S. Broadway[7] |
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became a branch of Zukor’s (1940),[32] now mixed-use
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1947
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1980[33] |
Abandoned Downtown L.A.
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Harris & Frank 2nd downtown location
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644 S. Broadway (Joseph E. Carr Bldg.)
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Robert Brown Young[34] |
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SEVENTH STREET
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1915
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1993
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Abandoned Downtown L.A.
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J. W. Robinson’s
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1915: 400,000 sq ft (37,000 m2)[35] 1923: 623,700 sq ft (57,940 m2)[36] |
7th, Hope & Grand
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Noonan & Richards (1915), Edgar Mayberry/Allison & Allison (1934 remodel)
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Mixed-use
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1917
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1933
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B. H. Dyas liquidated
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Ville de Paris, from 1919 B. H. Dyas
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420 W. 7th (SE corner Olive)
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Dodd and Richards
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L.A. Jewelry Mart
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1917
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1938
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Moved to Miracle Mile
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Coulter’s
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500 W. 7th (SW corner Olive)
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Dodd and Richards
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Mixed-use
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1917
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1963[37] |
Abandoned Downtown L.A.
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Haggarty’s
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Brockman Building, 7th & Grand[38][39][40][41] |
George D. Barnett (of Barnett, Haynes & Barnett)
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Apartments
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1926
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1984[42] |
Barker Bros.
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Abandoned Downtown L.A.
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23 acres (1,000,000 sq ft; 93,000 m2)[43] |
818 W. 7th (Flower to Figueroa)
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Curlett and Beelman
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Offices
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1973
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open*
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The Broadway
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250,000 sq ft (23,000 m2)[44] |
Broadway Plaza 750 W. 7th (Hope to Flower)
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Charles Luckman
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Macy’s
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1986
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1996
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Became duplicate Macy’s, closed
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Bullock’s
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Seventh Market Place now FIGat7th
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Jon Jerde[45] |
Gold’s Gym (level M1), Target (M2), Zara (M3)
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1986
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2009a |
Became duplicate Macy’s, closed
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May Company
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Nordstrom Rack (level M1), Target (M2), H&M (M3)
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