Plans to add a Nordstrom Department Store to Santa Anita Fashion Park received a set-back when the Arcadia Planning Commission voted down a request to reduce the required number of parking spaces at regional shopping centers.
A major renovation of the Hinshaw's shopping area should include the addition of a very large store plus additional space for smaller stores and a new facade for the buildings.
The Target Department Store and shopping center will not be coming to Arcadia. The contract that gave Beck & Associates the exclusive rights to negotiate with Arcadia expired without agreement January 9, despite a final revision of the plans designed to make them acceptable to the Arcadia Redevelopment Agency.
After narrowly rejecting a Target Department Store as a suitable use for a property on Huntington Drive Tuesday night, the Arcadia City Council will have to await another proposal if it still plans to redevelop the property. The vote was 2-2 with and abstention. the measure needed 3 votes to win.
As the first stage of what the owners hope will be a 2-part improvement of Arcadia's Santa Anita Fashion Park, the 12-year-old shopping center has announced it will soon begin a $10.5 million interior and exterior remodeling.
Proposed Department store targeted. Members of Arcadia City Council acting as redevelopment agency have approved Exclusive Right to Negotiate with Beck and Associates of Los Angeles for development of a Target Department Store with satellite shops at Third Avenue and Huntington Drive.
The developer for the proposed Target Department Store on Huntington Dr., which was defeated on a 2-2 vote of the Arcadia City Council, is trying to salvage the project by perhaps making a new offer to the city. If the difficulties are not resolved, Monrovia may be interested in acquiring the store, but Duarte is not.
The recent scaling back of the proposed expansion at the Santa Anita Fashion Park means the city may no longer need a bond to help pay for the project.
Santa Anita Fashion Park's plan to expand its facilities to include a Nordstrom Department store and additional small retail stores is scheduled to come before the Arcadia Planning Commission at its November 27 meeting. According to Chuck Cline, general manager of the mall, plans are very much in the preliminary stages and no architectural plans have yet been drawn.
Lillian Mowdy of Arcadia has worked in the men's department at Hinshaw's Department Store for 10 years and is the first and only woman at the Arcadia store to sell men's suits.