WARNER CENTER ADDING RETAIL.Byline: Deborah Adamson Daily News Staff Writer As if four consumer electronics stores in the area aren't enough, a new Good Guys is moving into a shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into being built at the northeast corner of Victory Boulevard Victory Boulevard is a major thoroughfare on Staten Island, measuring approximately 8.0 miles (12.87 km) and stretching from the west shore community of Travis to the upper east shore communities of St. George and Tompkinsville. and Canoga Avenue. A stone's throw stone's throw n. A short distance. stone's throw Noun a short distance Noun 1. from Circuit City, Best Buy and Fry's - and just a few blocks from an existing Good Guys - the 28,000-square-foot Good Guys store will be one of six tenants at Warner Center Marketplace, an open-air mall to arise on a 10-1/2-acre lot purchased from Rockwell International Rockwell International was the ultimate incarnation of a series of companies under the sphere of influence of Willard Rockwell, who had made his fortune after the invention and successful launch of a new bearing system for truck axles in 1919. . Construction will start soon and the mall will open by February, said Cliff Goldstein, a partner at real estate developer J.H. Snyder Co. in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . At a cost of $35 million, the project calls for a 155,000-square-foot mall with palm trees, a walking path and gardens. A 42,000-square-foot Bed Bath & Beyond and a 25,000-square-foot Borders Books & Music will be tenants as well. The developer also is pursuing a sporting goods Noun 1. sporting goods - sports equipment sold as a commodity commodity, trade good, good - articles of commerce sports equipment - equipment needed to participate in a particular sport chain, a major apparel retailer and a home furnishings tenant to complete the mall. Goldstein declined to identify them until their leases are finalized. However, all the stores will open at the same time. Gordon Murley, president of the Woodland Hills Homeowners Organization, said his group would rather see the parcel remain an industrial site. ``We have more than enough shopping centers. We don't see this as Phi Beta Kappa Phi Beta Kappa: see fraternity. Phi Beta Kappa Leading academic honour society in the U.S., which draws its membership from college and university students. The oldest Greek-letter society in the U.S. at all,'' he said. ``We're short on industrial land.'' But Goldstein said that the population density in the southwest San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. can support the number of shopping centers. ``There's still a lot of areas where it's not'' overstored, he said. The fate of the existing Good Guys store in Woodland Hills has not yet been decided, Good Guys officials said. It's located on Topanga Boulevard, a block south of Victory Boulevard. J.H. Snyder Co. also developed the Granada Hills Marketplace, at the intersection of Chatsworth Street and Zelzah Avenue. The 200,000-square-foot strip mall cost $40 million to develop. It opened in May with a Ralphs, OfficeMax, Orchard Supply Hardware and other stores. Snyder also is building three six-story office buildings in Burbank encompassing 585,000 square feet. The property is scheduled to open in 1999. The real estate developer began as a home builder when it incorporated in 1949. In the last 15 years, the privately held firm diversified into commercial office buildings and branched into retail construction only six years ago. CAPTION(S): Photo, map PHOTO (color) A vacant lot at Canoga Avenue and Victory Boulevard in Woodland Hills soon will be home to a Good Guys, Borders and other stores Myung J. Chun/Daily News Map: Power corner |
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