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Westfield Culver City

Interior view of Westfield Culver City in 2014.
Location	Culver City, California, U.S.
Address	6000 Sepulveda Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90230-6482
Opening date	October 6, 1975; 49 years ago (October 6, 1975)
Previous names	Fox Hills Mall (1975–1998) Westfield Shoppingtown Fox Hills (1998–2005) Westfield Fox Hills (2005–2009)
Developer	The Hahn Company
Management	Westfield Group
Owner	Westfield Group
No. of stores and services	172 (2018)
No. of anchor tenants	8
Total retail floor area	1,061,687 sq ft (98,633.9 m)
No. of floors	2-3 (1 in Best Buy and Trader Joe's, 2 in Forever 21, H&M, Nordstrom Rack, and Target, 3 in JCPenney and Macy's)
Website	www.westfield.com/united-states/culvercity

Westfield Culver City (formerly known as the Fox Hills Mall) is a shopping mall in Culver City, California, owned by the Westfield Group. The mall features JCPenney, Macy's, Best Buy, Target, and Trader Joe's. The mall features prominent specialty retailers such as Adidas, MAC Cosmetics, True Religion, Miniso, Uniqlo, Forever 21, and H&M.

History

Opened on October 6, 1975, the Fox Hills Mall was one of the first 3-level malls in California, owned and developed by Ernest W. Hahn, Inc. and Carter Hawley Hale Properties, Inc. Gruen Associates were the project architects, but The Broadway was designed by William L. Pereira Associates.

Situated on a 37-acre (150,000 m) site, the mall opened with:

• The Broadway (192,470 square feet (17,881 m)) (became Macy's in 1996)
• May Co. (147,845 square feet (13,735.2 m)) (became Robinsons-May in 1993)
• JCPenney (201,780 square feet (18,746 m)) – opened on January 14, 1976
• 80 of the eventual total of 131 (329,271 square feet (30,590.3 m) of) mall shops – including Harris & Frank and Lerner's

The total area was (902,566 square feet (83,851.1 m)) including outbuildings of 30,200 square feet (2,810 m). There was parking for 4491 cars, including 2400 in a parking structure.

Notable elements of its original design were a glass-and-steel "theme" staircase in the center of the mall, as well as the angled bridges which connected the multiple levels. Westfield America, Inc., a precursor to Westfield Group, acquired the shopping center in 1998 and renamed it "Westfield Shoppingtown Fox Hills", dropping the "Shoppingtown" name in June 2005. From 2005 to 2009, the mall was known as "Westfield Fox Hills".

The theme staircase was removed during the 2009 renovation, but the bridges still remain as part of the center.

The former Robinsons-May department store closed in 2006 and was demolished in 2008 for a new wing including Target and a Best Buy store in 2009.

By 2023, since the government lockdown, Westfield Culver City had announcing several newest additions, among them are Miniso, Lovisa, Carter's, Uniqlo and Intimissimi.

Dining Terrace

Los Angeles food critic Jonathan Gold gave the mall food court (officially called a "dining terrace") a complimentary review that highlighted the ethnic diversity of the food choices available: "After 60-odd years in Los Angeles, the city that practically invented the modern shopping center, a developer finally gets it...Fox Hills has always been among the most multiracial of Los Angeles malls, downhill from the posh African-American homes of Baldwin Hills and Ladera Heights, close to the Asian and Muslim enclaves of south Culver City, in proximity to Westchester and the Marina, Inglewood and Playa del Rey......Brilliant: not quite. But other mall operators would do well to pay attention."

Transit Access

The mall has a transit center in the parking lot located between Sepulveda Blvd and Slauson Ave, where transfers to many LACMTA and Culver CityBus lines can be made, including the Culver City route 6 bus to LAX. Line 6 on Sepulveda Boulevard runs along the Sepulveda corridor, connecting Westwood and UCLA to the Metro Green Line Aviation Station. Key stops along the route include the Howard Hughes Center and the Westfield Culver City Transit Center.

List of Anchor Stores

See also

• Westfield Group

References

1. ^ "Fox Hills Mall Stats, Fox Hills Mall advertising supplement". Los Angeles Times. October 5, 1975.
2. Albright, Mark (June 1, 2005). "If you didn't call them 'shoppingtowns,' don't: Three local malls that called themselves by the Australian name will quietly drop the label". Tampa Bay Times.
3. "https://www.westfield.com/en/united-states/culvercity/retailers". www.westfield.com. Retrieved 2024-12-05. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
4. Gold, Jonathan (January 12, 2012). "Jonathan Gold Reviews Westfield Culver City Food Court". LA Weekly.
5. "Line 6 - Sepulveda Blvd". www.culvercitybus.com. Retrieved 2024-12-05.

External links

• official Westfield Culver City website
• Kinney Shoe store commercial taped in Fox Hills Mall
• Fox Hills Mall Opens in Culver City, Dick Turpin, Los Angeles Times, October 1975
• Fox Hills Mall store list upon opening, 1975

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• Westfield Group
• Shopping malls on the Westside, Los Angeles
• Shopping malls established in 1975
• Buildings and structures in Culver City, California
• Victor Gruen buildings
• 1975 establishments in California