Developers, Homeowners Meet on Renovating Shopping Center

The developers of the Westside Pavilion shopping center have begun meeting with homeowner groups to discuss a proposal for revitalizing the mall’s ailing offshoot, known as Westside Too, officials said Friday.

A proposal to put 16 movie screens into the second and third levels of Westside Too by late 1998 has so far received mostly positive reaction from homeowners near the mall at Pico and Westwood boulevards, said Steve Gilula, president of Landmark Theatres.

The mall’s “phase one” building currently holds four Landmark screens, which would probably close if the new proposal is adopted, he said.

Andy Natker, development director at Westfield Corp., which manages the mall, said high vacancy rates at Westside Too prompted the plan and the meetings with homeowners.

“Everyone knows the second side is not working,” said homeowner Terri Tippit. “I want a project that works. I don’t want a white elephant.”