El Cerrito Plaza
USINFO | 2013-07-01 16:37

 
El Cerrito Plaza is a shopping center in El Cerrito, California, a suburb in the San Francisco Bay Area. El Cerrito Plaza is located on a part of the June 12, 1834 Rancho San Pablo Mexican land grant to Francisco María Castro. Several buildings were constructed by the Castro family over the years. El Cerrito Plaza originally opened in 1958 as a 350,000-square-foot (33,000 m2) regional mall, centered around aCapwell's department store. El Cerrito Plaza began to decline with the 1976 opening of Hilltop Mall as well as the opening of other malls in Concord and Walnut Creek. Many shoppers also turned to nearby Fourth Street in Berkeley and retail developments in Emeryville. n 2003, as part of the renovation, the shopping center's parking lot was drawn back from the edge of channelized Cerrito Creek, which runs along the southern boundary of the Plaza, and marks the boundary separating Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. The creek was re-contoured to give it a more natural flow pattern, planted with native vegetation, and edged with a pathway with seating walls by Friends of the Five Creeks.
 
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