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Category Archives: Shopping

The Americana at Brand

November 15, 2018by Alan Loomis Leave a comment

“In Glendale, The Americana pioneered the concept of mixed-use urban residential in a downtown and inspired a 10-year building boom that added over 3,000 new residential units across 20-plus projects to the immediate area.” My essay about The Americana at Brand is one of the many entries in the online SAH Archipedia.

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Architectural Shorts, Architecture, Glendale, Places, Shopping, Writings

Victoria Gardens

June 10, 2005by Alan Loomis Leave a comment

Commentary published in “Los Angeles: Building the Polycentric City” for the 13th Congress of New Urbanism, June 2005

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Architectural Shorts, Architecture, Los Angeles, New Urbanism, Places, Shopping, Writings

The Once and Future Mall

March 4, 2004by Alan Loomis Leave a comment

The Farmers Market, The Grove and the future of the Shopping Mall | Published in the LA Forum 2004 Annual

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History, Los Angeles, Shopping, Writings
Beverly Center

Consuming the City

October 30, 2002by Alan Loomis Leave a comment

Commerce is a fundamental function of the city, if not the primary reason for urban life. What else is the city but a giant machine for making money? | Editorial to the Fall 2002 LA Forum newsletter.

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Los Angeles, Shopping, Writings

Locating Victor Gruen

April 1, 2000by Alan Loomis 1 Comment

On March 23, 1959 the Kalamazoo City Commission unanimously adopted an ordinance closing two blocks of Burdick Street from automobile traffic. In August of that year, Burdick Street was reopened […]

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History, Shopping, Writings

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On behalf of @placeworksinc , I’m very pleased to have accepted an Award of Merit in Neighborhood Planning from @apa_losangeles for the Glendora Station Area Vision Plan. Adopted in July 2025, the Vision Plan is intended to guide transit-oriented development around the future Metro A Line Station, which opened in September 2025. The Station Area Plan covers approximately a half mile radius around the future Glendora Station. PlaceWorks worked closely with the City and included a multifaceted outreach approach including a public open house, online survey, and planning commission study sessions. On behalf of @placeworksinc , I’m very pleased to have accepted an Award of Merit in Neighborhood Planning from @apa_losangeles for the Glendora Station Area Vision Plan. Adopted in July 2025, the Vision Plan is intended to guide transit-oriented development around the future Metro A Line Station, which opened in September 2025. The Station Area Plan covers approximately a half mile radius around the future Glendora Station. The Plan identifies how to accommodate housing around the station and policies to implement the vision. On behalf of @placeworksinc, I’m very pleased to have accepted an Award of Merit in Neighborhood Planning from @apa_losangeles for the Glendora Station Area Vision Plan. Adopted in July 2025, the Vision Plan is intended to guide transit-oriented development around the future Metro A Line Station, which opened in September 2025. The Plan includes thoughtful development scenarios that provide a diverse mix of housing intensity and development types to accomplish the City’s housing element goals, while creating a dynamic transit-oriented neighborhood appropriate to the scale of community. In recognition of the 100 year (and 1 month) anniversary of the motel, some motel signs from Michigan, Tennessee, Arizona, California, Mississippi and Texas.

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