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Developer Rick Caruso and his company are soliciting the Arcadia community's thoughts on his $400 million mall project slated for the parking lot of Santa Anita Park. A "scoping session" designed to solicit public views on what should be included in the environmental review will take place at City Council chambers at 7pm on April 7, 2005.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 6, 2005
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 6, 2005
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Santa Anita Park race track parking lot
Caruso, Rick
Developers
Malls
Item ID
29650AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Residents voice concerns over the Santa Anita Park race track parking lot development of an outdoor mall to include retail, commercial and apartment space. Residents worry about how the quality of life in Arcadia will be affected. A draft of the environmental report should be ready by late June.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 8, 2005
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 8, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Santa Anita Park race track parking lot
Caruso, Rick
Developers
Malls
Item ID
29651AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Developer Rick Caruso's $400 million open-air mall at the Santa Anita Park race track may be stiff competition for retailers at Westfield Shoppingtown. City leaders hope the two malls can coexist.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 11, 2005
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 11, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Westfield Santa Anita - 2001-2010
Business and Industry
Caruso, Rick
Malls
Item ID
29652AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Rick Caruso writes to the editor in response to the article "Arcadia braces for possible mall wars at Santa Anita." He says it will not be a war but an integrated project that should benefit his property and Westfield Shoppingtown.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 20, 2005
Pages
p. A14
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 20, 2005
Pages
p. A14
Subjects
Santa Anita Park race track - parking lot - development
Caruso, Rick
Letters to the editor
Malls
Caruso Affiliated
Item ID
29683AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Westfield Shoppingtown has hired one of the largest law firms in Los Angeles--Latham and Watkins, to slow developer Rick Caruso's proposal to build a mall on he grounds of the adjacent Santa Anita Park race track.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 12, 2005
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 12, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Westfield Santa Anita
Law firms - Latham and Watkins
Malls
Westfield Group
Caruso, Rick
Caruso Affiliated
Developments
Item ID
29699AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Rick Caruso, who is planning to build a new mall at the Santa Anita Park race track, invited guests from Arcadia to The Grove to get community feedback on his proposed development. He is trying to learn things about what Arcadians want or need. He expresses his philosophy and background.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 16, 2005
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 16, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Malls
Caruso, Rick
Caruso Affiliated Holdings
Developers
Feedback
Item ID
29704AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Developer Rick Caruso is planning two massive "lifestyle centers" on either side of Pasadena: one in Glendale and one in Arcadia. Pasadena officials say they may start thinking about dealing with the increased competition for Pasadena's shopping dollars.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 25, 2005
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 25, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Caruso, Rick
Developers
Shopping malls
Item ID
29756AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Westfield Group has vowed not to donate to City Council campaigns in the April 2006 election, joining mall rival Rick Caruso and Caruso Affiliated, who made a similar pledge in September.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 2, 2005
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 2, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Caruso Affiliated
Caruso, Rick
Malls - mall war
Santa Anita Park race track parking lot
Shops at Santa Anita
City council elections - 2001-2010
Westfield Group
Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita
Item ID
29945AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Rick Caruso faces off with Westfield Group's Kenneth Wong at a City Council meeting. Some 350 Arcadia residents came to hear about the proposed expansion of Westfield Shoppingtown and Caruso's outdoor lifestyle center.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 17, 2005
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 17, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Caruso Affiliated
Santa Anita Park race track - parking lot
Shops at Santa Anita
Mall war
Developers
Westfield Group
Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita
Wong, Kenneth
Caruso, Rick
Item ID
29960AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A year-end review of 2005 includes a summary of the mall war between developer Rick Caruso and the Westfield Group.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 1, 2006
Pages
p. A3, A15
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 1, 2006
Pages
p. A3, A15
Subjects
Arcadia First!
Caruso, Rick
Developers
Mall war
Santa Anita Park race track parking lot
Shops at Santa Anita
Westfield Group
Item ID
30037AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Mall developer Rick Caruso has announced that he has removed 300 apartments from the proposed Shops at Santa Anita. Arcadians were concerned that the housing at the mall would contribute to overcrowding at Arcadia High School. Without the apartments, the project will be an open air mall instead of a mixed use development.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 17, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 17, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Caruso, Rick
Caruso Affiliated
Malls
Developers
Shops at Santa Anita
Item ID
30050AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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The city has extended the comment period for the Shops at Santa Anita environmental impact report. The public will have until February 27 to file questions and observations.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 24, 2006
Pages
p. A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 24, 2006
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Environmental impact reports (EIR)
Caruso, Rick
Shops at Santa Anita
Developments
Malls
Item ID
30070AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Pasadena Star News writer Gene Maddaus comments on the latest mall war issue involving the removal of the housing units from Rick Caruso's plans and also Caruso's public relations error.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 28, 2006
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 28, 2006
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Caruso, Rick
Maddaus, Gene
Mall war
Shops at Santa Anita
Item ID
30074AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Two new issues brought up by Westfield Group against the Caruso project may go to Arcadia voters in a special election in November. One issue is to ban paid parking and the other is to prevent Caruso from erecting large billboards at the mall. Any election could cost the city up to $80,000.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 2, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A8
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 2, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A8
Subjects
Ballot measures - proposed
Billboards
Caruso Affiliated
Caruso, Rick
Developers
Initiatives
Mall war
Parking
Santa Anita Park race track parking lot
Shops at Santa Anita
Westfield Group
Item ID
30085AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Westfield Group, owner of Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita, has proposed two ballot measures for the November election. Westfield is gathering signatures for the two initiatives: 1) to mandate free parking at all large retail projects and 2) to ban large billboards. A poll of 300 registered Arcadia voters in February showed 74% support the free parking initiative and 62% support the billboard measure.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 8, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 8, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Ballot measures
Polls
Westfield Group
Caruso, Rick
Malls
Mall war
Item ID
30131AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Rick Caruso has agreed to pay for a revision of the environmental impact report for the Shops at Santa Anita, the proposed mall development on the parking lot of the Santa Anita Park race track. The original environmental impact report cost almost $1 million. The new revision will require new studies and new public meetings and could cost another 6-figure amount.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29946
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 8, 2006
Pages
p. A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 8, 2006
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Caruso, Rick
Malls
Mall war
Shops at Santa Anita
Environmental impact reports (EIR)
Item ID
30132AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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The Arcadia Unified school board has agreed to terms with mall developer Rick Caruso, who is offering free office space to the district inside his proposed Shops at Santa Anita. Caruso is offering 22,000 square feet of office space, plus 88 dedicated parking spots, for 40 years, at no charge.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 16, 2006
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 16, 2006
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia Unified School District
Shops at Santa Anita
Offices - office space
Developers
Malls
Caruso, Rick
Item ID
30142AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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One candidate for City Council, Sheng Chang, has signed a pledge issued by Arcadia First!, the Westfield-funded organization formed to defeat the Shops at Santa Anita mall. Chang opposes the proposed new mall project.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 23, 2006
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 23, 2006
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Caruso, Rick
Chang, Sheng
Harbicht, Bob
Arcadia First!
City Council elections -- 2001-2010
Santa Anita Park race track - parking lot
Shops at Santa Anita
Candidates
Malls
Item ID
30151AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Seen as retaliation for Westfield tactics, Caruso Affiliated announced it would ask Arcadia voters to block mall rival Westfield from leasing space to Target Stores or a similar "big box" discounter.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 25, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 25, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Caruso, Rick
Malls
Mall war
Caruso Affiliated
Ballot measures
Shops at Santa Anita
Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita
Item ID
30156AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A full-page advertisement paid for by Shops at Santa Anita shows Dr. Mimi Hennessy and John McClain's support for the Shops at Santa Anita.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 27, 2006
Pages
p. A14
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 27, 2006
Pages
p. A14
Subjects
Advertisements
The Shops at Santa Anita
Caruso, Rick
Arcadia Unified School District - School Board
Malls
Item ID
30192AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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