Local News in Brief : Compromise on New Mall
The Pasadena Board of Directors has approved a compromise plan that will allow the construction of a modern $60-million shopping mall in the heart of the city’s historic Old Pasadena area.
The compromise requires the developers, Pasadena Marketplace Associates, to preserve most of six turn-of-the-century buildings on the site.
The 350,000-square-foot project, which was proposed four years ago, involves building an integrated shopping mall behind the facades of the historic buildings in the block north of Colorado Boulevard and west of Fair Oaks Avenue.
The project is considered by many in the city to be a key to revitalizing Old Pasadena, which was once the city’s Skid Row but in the last few years has become a center of upscale restaurants and boutiques.
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