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Westfield agreed to operate the park and schedule events, which could include concerts, movie screenings, and celebrations. Westfield partnered with the city to renovate and restore the area into an urban park and public gathering place called Horton Plaza Park. On January 11, 2011, the San Diego City Council unanimously approved a plan to raze the former Robinsons-May building on the north side of the mall to make way for a 37,000 square feet (3,400 m 2) urban park, effectively enlarging the adjacent, historic Horton Plaza and Broadway Fountain. The Musicland Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January 2006, and in February it announced the closing of 226 Sam Goody and 115 Suncoast Motion Picture Company stores and all Media Play locations. The upper level of the former Mervyn's was replaced with a variety of stores such as Forever 21 and Express in 2007.
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Express was replaced with Steve & Barry’s sportswear which operated until 2009. In 2006, Mervyn's announced they would be closing early that year. Samba Grille closed in fall 2007 and it since then replaced with an antique furniture gallery/store in 2008.
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It was replaced by Samba Grille, a Brazilian steakhouse in early 2006. In 2018, Westfield Corporation was acquired by Unibail-Rodamco, and it was rebranded as Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield. In 2014, Westfield split into two companies, Scentre Group for Australia and New Zealand malls, and Westfield Corporation for American and European malls. In 1998, the owners of the mall sold it to the Westfield Group, which renamed the mall Westfield Horton Plaza. In 1997, FAO Schwarz opened on the 5th floor of the mall. In 1995, United Artists Theatres announced they would be building 7 new screens into 7 screens to make it 14 in 1996. In 1994, Sam Goody and Planet Hollywood announced they would be opening stores in the former J.
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Weeks after the mall's opening in 1985, a man committed suicide by jumping from a third-story walkway in what was the first of five suicides to occur over the mall's history. When originally built, the center housed the historic Jessop's Clock, built in 1907, which formerly stood on a sidewalk in front of the Jessop and Sons jewelry store in Downtown San Diego. Horton Plaza was an instant financial success and while some credited it for revitalizing downtown San Diego, others said the revitalization benefitted the mall. In it he extolled the virtues of getting "safely lost" as adults inspired by side streets of Paris, London, or New York. Jerde's project was based on Ray Bradbury's essay "The Aesthetics of Lostness". The building's design featured mismatched levels, long one-way ramps, sudden drop-offs, dramatic parapets, shadowy colonnades, cul-de-sacs, and brightly painted facades constructed around a central courtyard. When it opened in August 1985, it was a risky and radical departure from the standard paradigm of mall design. Horton Plaza was the $140 million centerpiece of a downtown redevelopment project run by The Hahn Company, and is the first example of architect Jon Jerde's so-called "experience architecture". The mall was demolished starting in May 2020.Īerial view from 1,000 feet (300 m), 2011 Nordstrom closed in 2016, leaving a vacant anchor store, and the other major anchor, Macy's, closed in Spring 2020. In August 2018, the property was sold to developer Stockdale Capital Partners, which plans to convert it into an office-retail complex. Opening in 1985, it was the first successful downtown retail center since the rise of suburban shopping centers decades earlier. It stood on 6.5 city blocks adjacent to the city's historic Gaslamp Quarter. It was known for its bright colors, architectural tricks, and odd spatial rhythms. Horton Plaza, not to be confused with its adjacent namesake Horton Plaza Park, was a five-level outdoor shopping mall located in downtown San Diego. Westfield Horton Plaza (as it was then called) in 2008.