Westfield Promenade

The Promenade is a large dead shopping mall owned by Westfield Group and located on Topanga Canyon Boulevard in the Woodland Hills district of Los Angeles. It was previously known as The Promenade at Woodland Hills and Westfield Shoppingtown Promenade. The mall is anchored by a 16-screen AMC Theatre. By 2015, Westfield removed the property from its corporate website and had removed the Westfield name from all signage on the property and officially changed the name of the property to The Promenade. In October 2016, Westfield officially announced that the mall is going to be demolished and replaced by a new $1.5 billion residential development called Promenade 2035.HistoryOpened in 1973 as The Promenade at Woodland Hills, it was originally a high-fashion center anchored by J. W. Robinson's, Bullocks Wilshire and Saks Fifth Avenue. The Bullocks Wilshire store was renamed I. Magnin in 1990 and in 1995 became a Bullock's Men's store, being renamed Macy's in 1996. The Robinson's store was closed in 1993 and sold to Bullock's, becoming Macy's in 1996 as well. Following the 1994 Northridge earthquake, Saks Fifth Avenue used the opportunity to close their underperforming store and it was demolished in 1994 for the addition of the AMC Theatre, which opened in 1996.The 34-acre retail development was originally conceived and developed by Kaiser Aetna as part of their master commercial-retail-residential development plan for their section of the massive former Warner Ranch now known as the Warner Center. Coldwell Banker was the property manager and Ernest W. Hahn, Inc., was the general contractor. A few months before the first store opened, Kaiser Aetna sold their interest in the mall to Continental Illinois Properties for an estimated $15 million. In March 1973, Robinson's was the first anchor store to open. Both Saks and Bullock's Wilshire followed by opening five months later.