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The Cerritos Towne Center is a power centre located in the center of Cerritos, California that combines retailing, office, and entertainment in one master project. A power centre (or power center, also known as a retail park) is an unenclosed shopping centre with to of Gross leasable area that usually contains Cerritos (formerly known as Dairy Valley) is a Charter city in Los Angeles County California, United States, and is one of several cities that An office is generally a room or other area in which people work, but may also denote a position within an Organization with specific duties attached See also Entertainment (disambiguation and The Entertainer (disambiguation Entertainment is an activity designed to give people The Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts is located within the southwestern part of the project. The Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts (or CCPA) is a 154000 square-foot entertainment and Music venue located in the Cerritos Towne Center of Cerritos High School, Cerritos City Hall, the Cerritos Sheriff Station, and the Cerritos Millennium Library are all located across the street from the Towne Center development and are sometimes collectively referred to as "Downtown Cerritos. Cerritos High School is a public school in Cerritos California, serving grades 9-12 The Cerritos Millennium Library, the New Cerritos Library, or the Cerritos Public Library is the civic Library for the City "

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Development and History

The Golden Triangle

Built on 125-acres of former dairy farms, the future site of the Cerritos Towne Center was one of the last remnants of the city of Cerritos' agricultural past. A dairy is a facility for the extraction and processing of animal Milk &mdashmostly from goats or cows, but also from buffalo, Sheep Agriculture refers to the production of goods through the growing of plants and fungi and the raising of domesticated Animals The study of agriculture The area, fomally known as "Area Development Plan 2", bounded by State Route 91 to the north, Shoemaker Avenue to the east, 183rd Street to the south and Bloomfield Avenue to the west, was nicknamed "the Golden Triangle" by local press because of its large revenue potential. [1]

By the time the dairies moved out and the area was ready for redevelopment in the early 1980s, the Cerritos Redevelopment Agency discussed possible uses for the large plot. Urban Renewal (similar to Urban Regeneration in British English) is a controversial U The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. Housing, residential and recreational development were ruled out because the redevelopment agency decided that whatever be built in the area ought to generate tax revenue. Tax revenue is the Income that is gained by Governments because of Taxation of the people Since 1970, a proposal floated around for a unique donut-shaped shopping center, but the idea was eventually turned down due to it close proximity with the already successful Los Cerritos Center. The Los Cerritos Center in Cerritos California is an upscale super-regional commercial Shopping mall with a gross lease area of. The following year in 1971, discussions were held to feature a Polynesian cultural center complete with artificial ocean with six islands and a volcano that would erupt nightly. Polynesian culture refers to the aboriginal Culture of the Polynesian -speaking peoples of Polynesia and the Neighbors with NIMBY mindsets and concern with pollution (although the developer promised the pollution would be controlled) was enough to reject the development. NIMBY is an Acronym for Not In My Back Yard. The term is used to describe opposition to a new project by residents even if they themselves and those around [2]

Market research conducted by the city concluded that a mixed use of public facilities, hotels, office and commercial buildings would be the most ideal usage of the Golden Triangle space. A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging usually on a short-term basis

Southern Division

A themed traffic light with the office buildings of the Cerritos Towne Center in the surrounding background.
A themed traffic light with the office buildings of the Cerritos Towne Center in the surrounding background. The traffic light, also known as traffic signal, stop light, traffic lamp, stop-and-go lights, robot or semaphore,

The city of Cerritos immediately contracted the Transpacific Development Company to work on the multiphased southern project. Pressure from neighboring cities such as Norwalk and Downey that were building new hotels in their respective cities added to the competition. Norwalk is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Downey is a city located in southeast Los Angeles County California, United States, 21 km (13 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. Capitalizing on its close proximity to the Artesia Freeway, the redevelopment agency spent $8. 6 million on road improvements, adding on-ramps and off-ramps to the Towne Center, and landscaping. In the field of Road transport, an interchange is a road junction that typically Landscaping refers to any activity that modifies the visible features of an area of land including but not limited to living elements, such as

Projected figures used by city leaders calculated that over its first 50 years, the $225 million Cerritos Towne Center would generate $585 million in tax revenue and 4,500 jobs. Indeed, the national accounts division of ADP moved its regional headquarters into the Cerritos Towne Center and were the first occupants of the office sector. Automatic Data Processing Inc ( ADP is a global provider of integrated computing and business outsourcing solutions for auto truck motorcycle marine and recreational vehicle In 1990, Phase I of the Towne Center project welcomed the 8-story Sheraton Cerritos Hotel, which remains the only transient occupancy building in the city. Sheraton Hotels and Resorts is Starwood Hotels & Resorts ' largest and second oldest brand ( Westin being the oldest In January 1993, the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts opened its doors to the public and remains one of the most acclaimed venues for its size.

Northern Division

Retail and restaurants were reserved for the northern quadrants. The city of Cerritos hired the Vestar Development Company of Scottsdale, Arizona to develop the 41-acre commercial sector along the lines of Newport Beach's Fashion Island. Scottsdale ( O'odham Vaṣai S-vaṣonĭ; Yaqui Eskatel) is a city in the eastern part of Maricopa County, Arizona, Fashion Island is an open-air Shopping mall in Newport Beach California (located at (33 However, further market research revealed that the upscale retail market was in a slump and would compete negatively with the Los Cerritos Center across town. City leaders decided that a more midscale big-box center would succeed and complement shopping in Cerritos. Big-box store is a term that refers to a style of physically large Chain store, and by extension to the company behind the store To much fanfare, Smith's Food King and one of the very first Wal-Marts in the Los Angeles area ushered in the commercial phase of the Towne Center project in August 26, 1994. Smith's Food and Drug, commonly known as Smith's is a leading chain of Supermarkets in the Intermountain and Southwest regions of the United Wal-Mart Stores Inc (or Walmart as written in its new logo is an American public corporation that runs a chain of large discount department stores Los Angeles County is a county in California and is by far the most populous county in the United States. Today, the Cerritos Towne Center brings in a gross retail sales total in excess of $200 million a year. [3]

Retail Directory

Majors

Fashion/Shoes/Accessories

Health & Beauty

Restaurants

Services

Specialty Stores

See also

External links

References

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