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Overview

The two-floor Bullock's Department Store was the first to open at the Northridge Fashion Center on 09/10/1071. The mall had four anchor department stores open by 1972, including Sears, J.C. Penney, and The Broadway Department Stores. In 1988. two more anchors were added--J. W. Robinson's and May Company California--to new wings of the complex. The Bullock's--later Macy's--Department Store occupied the northeast corner of the mall.

Building History

During the Northridge Earthquake of 01/17/1994, the Bullock's Northridge Department Store was heavily damaged. The Los Angeles Times said of it: "The building, completed in 1971 before stiff building codes were in place, was among the most photographed images of the devastation caused by the Jan. 17 quake. The quake tore away the facade of the store, leaving onlookers to gape at the structural collapse of the department store and wonder what might have happened had the store been filled with shoppers at the time the quake struck."

Federated Department Stores, the owner of the Bullock's and Macy's brands, closed the former store at Northridge Fashion Center in 1996, and renamed it a Macy's. In the former Robinsons-May Department Store space in the mall, Federated replaced it with a Macy's Home Store in 2006.

Demolition

The Bullock's Department Store at the Northridge Fashion Center was partially demolished in the 1/17/1994 Northridge Earthquake; the second story collapsed onto the first. The Cleveland Wrecking Company demolished the remainder of the building during the month of March 1994. According to the Los Angeles Times: "Merle Goldstone, spokeswoman for Bullock's, said the department store company intends to rebuild the store at Northridge Fashion Center and is negotiating with developers. Goldstone would not give an estimate of the cost of reconstruction." (See Jill Leovy, Los Angeles Times.com, "Northridge: Few Gather for Demolition of Bullock's Store," published 02/23/1994, accessed 11/28/2017.) No other Bullock's store was ever erected in Northridge.

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