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Building History

The City of Glendale paid $12.8 miilion to purchase properties, demolish them, relocate inhabitants and preexisting businesses, and put in street, parking and utility infrastructure c. 1973. This outlay of city funds was to expedite the private development of the Galleria property into a large mall.

Ten years later, the City of Glendale spent $8.7 million to purchase land, relocate people and add infrastructure to enable the construction of Galleria II addition. (See "City Officials Push for Mall," Los Angeles Daily News, 07/25/2004, p. 19.)

In 2009, General Growth Properties, a Chicago-based real estate holding company, owned approximately 200 shopping centers in 44 states. Overwhelmed by debt, General Properties filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy on 04/16/2009. This move caused insecurity in the shopping mall business as General Properties owned the second most number of facilities in the country. This concern also owned Pioneer Place in Downtown, Portland, OR.

Building Notes

The 1970s was a time of demolition in Glendale, CA, with old residences being replaced by higher density multi-family apartments and low-rise commercial buildings being torn down in favor of taller properties in the downtown core. This rapid destruction of the built environment during the 1970s, helped to spark the formation of the Glendale Historical Society in 1979.

PCAD id: 13920