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Beverly Center
Beverly Center ing views of the Hollywood Hills, Downtown Los Angeles
and the Los Angeles Westside.
The Center’s externally-visible escalators previously
resembled similar escalators at the Pompidou Center in
Paris, France; however, the escalators underwent reno-
vation in 2007 and now have a significantly different,
highly enhanced appearance which affords visitors a sig-
nificantly expanded view of the surrounding area and the
hills to the north.
View from the intersection of La Cienega Blvd. and 3rd St.
Location Los Angeles, California History
Opening date March 1982
Developer A. Alfred Taubman, Sheldon Gordon &
E. Phillip Lyon
Management Taubman Centers
Owner Taubman Centers
No. of stores and 160+
services
No. of anchor 2
tenants
Total retail floor 883,000 sq ft (82,000 m2)
area Beverly Center at the corner of La Cienega Boulevard and Bev-
No. of floors 8 erly Boulevard
Website Beverlycenter.com The Beverly Center was originally opened in 1982 by de-
velopers A. Alfred Taubman, Sheldon Gordon & E. Phillip
The Beverly Center is a shopping mall in Los Angeles, Cal- Lyon. (The site’s former occupant was a small amuse-
ifornia, United States. ment park known as Beverly Park and Kiddyland, fea-
turing a ferris wheel, merry-go-round, and mini roller-
Description coaster, and a pony ride known as Ponyland.) The north-
east corner of the mall, at the intersection of Beverly and
The Beverly Center is a monolithic eight-story structure
La Cienega Boulevards, happens to be the center of the
located at the edge of Beverly Hills and West Hollywood,
studio zone.
California, between La Cienega and San Vicente boule-
The mall’s unusual shape and lack of street frontage
vards. Anchor tenants include Macy’s,and Blooming-
along San Vicente Blvd is due to its location on top of the
dale’s. While the mall features staples of American re-
Salt Lake Oil Field. The western portion of the mall prop-
tail—such as Banana Republic, Victoria’s Secret and For-
erty contains a cluster of oil wells, all operated by Plains
ever 21—it is also home to several high-end designer bou-
Exploration & Production, in a drilling enclosure that is
tiques, including Armani Exchange, Just Cavalli, D&G
active to this date.[1][2]
Dolce & Gabbana, Louis Vuitton, Calvin Klein, Ben Sher-
The opening of the mall featured the debut of the
man, Diesel, Gucci, Prada, The Ferrari Store, Burberry,
Cineplex movie theater, a multiplex movie theater ini-
Fendi and Hugo Boss. Along with the retail and designers’
tially boasting 14 screens, at that time the largest number
boutiques, Beverly Center offers a full food court, guest
of movie screens in any US multiplex.[3] The multiplex
service desk, valet parking, and taxi services. The mall al-
was launched on July 16, 1982, with the West Coast pre-
so has several restaurants including Pinkberry and The
miere of Miramax’s The Secret Policeman’s Other Ball
Grand Lux Cafe. The mall’s Rooftop Terrace offers sweep-
which played on three of its fourteen screens. Even
though the movie theater was located in Los Angeles, the
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opening was newsworthy enough to warrant a full article when a geyser of lava erupted out of San Vicente
in the New York Times.[4] In the late 1980s, three small- Boulevard, threatening the structure and its
er screens were removed on the main floor, so two larger occupants.
auditoriums could be built on the roof. The theatre closed • Crispin Hellion Glover briefly references the Beverly
on June 3, 2010. Center in his song, Auto-Manipulator: "the fine clean
The mall contained the USA’s first Hard Rock Cafe, girl at the Beverly Center..."
the third installment of the restaurant chain, following • In the song "The Mall" by Gang Starr, Guru
those in London and Toronto. The Beverly Center was references the Beverly center by saying "All the way
originally anchored by Bullock’s and The Broadway de- from Green Acre’s to the Beverly Center, heads turn,
partment stores, and in 1993 Bullock’s opened a separate and I’m the main concern when I enter"
Bullock’s Men’s store, before both stores were renamed • Usher the R&B singer alludes to the paparazzi
Macy’s in 1996. The Broadway closed its location in 1996 spotting him having an affair with a woman at the
when it was absorbed into Macy’s and its former store Beverly Center in his song, Confessions: "I was hand
was reopened as a Bloomingdale’s in 1997. in hand in the Beverly Center like man not giving a
In 2004, Taubman Centers, the public Real Estate In- damn who sees me."
vestment Trust and successor to A. Alfred Taubman’s • The Beverly Center appears numerous times in the
shopping center interests, purchased its partners minor- animated cartoon Totally Spies!.
ity investments stake in the property. • On May 18, 2009, rap artist Dolla was fatally shot at
the Beverly Center.
In popular culture • In the new 90210 the Beverly Centre is referenced to
when the farther of the minor charter called Harper
threatens that if she does not get a grant, she will be
working there.
See also
• Zev Yaroslavsky, Los Angeles City Council member
(1974–94) who voted in favor of building the Beverly
Center
References
[1] http://www.startribune.com/business/
Beverly Center and West Hollywood Hills 22184939.html
[2] Landsberg, Mitchell (August 6, 2001). "Decades-Old
• The Beverly Center appears in the Brian De Palma Oil Field Dies as Fairfax Area Mall Takes Shape". Los
film Body Double. Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2001/
• The centre appears in the 13th episode of the aug/06/local/me-31204. Retrieved December 4,
television series The Colbys where it was shown to be 2009.
called Bullock’s Beverly Centre. [3] http://www.allbusiness.com/services/motion-
• Scenes from the movie Chopping Mall were shot at the pictures/4898032-1.html allbusiness.com
Beverly Center in 1985. [4] http://cinematreasures.org/theater/7220/
• A chapter in the 1985 Bret Easton Ellis novel Less cinematreasures.org
Than Zero is set in The Beverly Center.
• The Beverly Center was the setting of the 1991 film External links
Scenes from a Mall starring Bette Midler and Woody
Allen. • Official Beverly Center Web site
• While under construction, the Beverly Center was • Taubman Company (owner)
used as the backdrop for the 1976 film "Lipstick." • fact sheet
• The Beverly Center played a part of the plot near the Coordinates: 34°04′30″N 118°22′37″W / 34.075°N
end of the 1997 disaster thriller ’ starring Tommy Lee 118.377°W / 34.075; -118.377
Jones and Anne Heche. A triage and childcare center
for neighboring Cedars-Sinai Medical Center was set
up in the mall’s Hard Rock Cafe. This was evacuated
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Categories:
• Landmarks in Los Angeles, California
• Shopping malls in California
• Shopping malls established in 1982
• Taubman Centers
• Malls and Shopping Districts in Los Angeles County, California
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