Why are so many stores closing at westfield topanga village??

[LA Fan]

Originally Posted by looker009

Topanga Village designee sucks. They put Costco there when it wasn't supposed to be there and parking just sucks.

What Costco have you been to that parking isn’t bad or suck, because the ones I’ve been to are all bad. Actually I find it much easier to park at Topanga Village Costco because they have a parking garage. I never park in the lot nor do I park on the first floor in the garage. The 2nd level is so much more convenient, less crowded and puts you pretty much at the front door.

The culture in this part of the valley is get the best and closest spot at all cost. I have seen folks drive around and even block the flow in order to get a parking spot that’s not even close to the front door of Costco. Also seen people drive the wrong way when it’s clearly stated “One Way Only, and give you attitude when they are in the wrong.

There are multiple entrances to the Village from different sides and I find it quite easy to get in and out of there while many people drive around thinking they are getting a good close spot. If they just look around and go up the ramp inside the garage they can already be parked and in the store with less steps to walk. You can even grab a basket from an attendant on the 2nd level and take the escalator down.

In fact the parking at The Village is much easier and closer to the stores than Topanga Mall. I’ve been to lots of shopping centers around Southern California and don’t quite understand people complaining about the parking situation at the Village. It’s much better than most, ever been to the Americana in Glendale, downtown Burbank, Century City Mall, or The Grove, I rather deal with The Village parking.

[looker009]

Originally Posted by LA Fan

What Costco have you been to that parking isn’t bad or suck, because the ones I’ve been to are all bad. Actually I find it much easier to park at Topanga Village Costco because they have a parking garage. I never park in the lot nor do I park on the first floor in the garage. The 2nd level is so much more convenient, less crowded and puts you pretty much at the front door.

The culture in this part of the valley is get the best and closest spot at all cost. I have seen folks drive around and even block the flow in order to get a parking spot that’s not even close to the front door of Costco. Also seen people drive the wrong way when it’s clearly stated “One Way Only, and give you attitude when they are in the wrong.

There are multiple entrances to the Village from different sides and I find it quite easy to get in and out of there while many people drive around thinking they are getting a good close spot. If they just look around and go up the ramp inside the garage they can already be parked and in the store with less steps to walk. You can even grab a basket from an attendant on the 2nd level and take the escalator down.

In fact the parking at The Village is much easier and closer to the stores than Topanga Mall. I’ve been to lots of shopping centers around Southern California and don’t quite understand people complaining about the parking situation at the Village. It’s much better than most, ever been to the Americana in Glendale, downtown Burbank, Century City Mall, or The Grove, I rather deal with The Village parking.

Village Costco is the only one that i encounter that got parking structure. All other i been to have just regular parking lot. While parking on 2nd level structure is okay, parking on 3rd level etc is a pain in the ass being they only got 2 elevators. Who smart idea was it to put only 2 elevators? I should mention this is only mall here that charge for parking with exception of Sherman Oaks Galleria but i do not consider that to be real mall

[Forever Blue]

I worry about ALL the malls in southern CA since COVID started, since I love malls & shopping...always have. It seems that certain stores are closing at each of these malls (Nordstrom, NY & Co, etc.). I sure don't want entire malls to start closing.

Re: THIS mall, I love the indoor mall & the outdoor village. I would go here about every several mos to 1.5 yrs. It's a far drive from where I am. To me, this mall is one of the best in S. CA, along w/:

• Century City
• South Coast Plaza
• Desert Hills Premium Outlets
• The Oaks in Thousand Oaks
• Westfield UTC
• Fashion Valley Mall
• Del Amo Mall
• Irvine Spectrum

And these are still good too:

• Westfield Santa Anita
• Los Cerritos Center
• Fashion Island

[CA4Now]

Some of the foot traffic at Puente Hills Mall comes not from shoppers but from people fascinated by languishing shopping centers — an obsession chronicled by websites such as DeadMalls.Com and YouTubers who film themselves walking among retail graveyards.

This particular shopping center also draws movie buffs. Inside is the sign for the fictional Twin Pines Mall in “Back to the Future.”

Its faux electronic clock is permanently set to 1:16 a.m., the time Marty McFly arrives in the mall parking lot on a skateboard to see Doc Brown’s time machine built from a spruced-up DeLorean. In the scene, a JCPenney stands out in the background, but that, like so much else, is also gone.

Opened in phases in 1974 and 1975, Puente Hills Mall was once one of Southern California’s biggest, most bustling shopping centers, with 1.2 million square feet of commercial space.

Dead mall, live Santa: A rookie St. Nick steps in at shopping center from ‘Back to the Future’:
https://www.latimes.com/california/s...e-puente-hills

[highlanderfil]

Puente Hills was dead long before Covid. There used to be a Todai buffet there and my family would go back in the day when things like that still fascinated us as recent immigrants (early aughts). There used to be a completely random Formula 1 car - a Benetton from, I believe, the 1997 season, on a suspended platform near the western entrance. Still don't know how it got or what it was doing there.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by highlanderfil

Puente Hills was dead long before Covid.

As so many of these malls were. Except the Santa Anita Mall in Arcadia, which continues to do well. Interesting.

Buyer of Westfield Santa Anita mall in Arcadia is local — like really local
Wen Shan Chang, 71, of Bradbury, is the new proprietor of the mall — now called The Shops at Santa Anita:
https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/202...-really-local/