The shopping center opened in 1977 along Hawthorne Boulevard between 120th Street and El Segundo Boulevard. It began to decline in the 1980s and 1990s, and lost its last big retailer in JC Penney ...

A rubbish fire erupted Wednesday in the vacant Hawthorne Plaza shopping center, sending a thick plume of black smoke into the air. The fire was reported about 9:35 a.m. at the former mall in the ...

Hawthorne Plaza Hawthorne. Though it didn’t open until February 1977, the genesis of the Hawthorne Plaza mall can be traced back to the late 1960s. The shopping center was a key part of the ...

Hawthorne Plaza Hawthorne. Though it didn’t open until February 1977, the genesis of the Hawthorne Plaza mall can be traced back to the late 1960s. The shopping center was a key part of the ...

Los Angeles County firefighters respond to a fire in Hawthorne Plaza, once popular shopping mall that has been closed for decades, on Wednesday, January 26, 2022. (Photo by Axel Koester ...

Ambitious new plans unveiled this week would transform the hulking, abandoned Hawthorne Plaza mall from a ramshackle haven for feral cats and vagrants into a state-of-the-art place to shop, work ...