Shopping centers in Santa Fe Springs, California
Santa Fe Springs, California has been home to two regional malls and one open-air shopping center, anchored by department stores. Today, all three operate as conventional open-air shopping centers.
Santa Fe Springs Mall / Gateway Plaza
Santa Fe Springs Mall was a regional mall built in 1985, which included a Sears and an 8-screen Mann multicinema. It is now the site of the Gateway Plaza power center, anchored by Target, Ross Dress for Less, El Super, and Walmart. The shopping center is located at the intersection of Telegraph Road and Carmenita Road.Whittier Downs / Santa Fe Springs Marketplace
Whittier Downs Shopping Center was a shopping center that served the community of West Whittier-Los Nietos, California from the 1950s through the 1980s, anchored by JCPenney. The center is at Washington and Norwalk boulevards and within the city limits of Santa Fe Springs, despite the shopping center's name associated with the adjacent city. Pereira & Luckman were the architects.The center opened in 1955 with parking for 740 cars. Unusually, shops faced both a pedestrian mall as well as the parking lot.
In the late 1980s, the mall was demolished and the site was redeveloped into the Santa Fe Springs Marketplace, a neighborhood center currently anchored by a Food 4 Less supermarket, O'Reilly Auto Parts, and a Pic 'N' Save Bargains store, which is a revival of the original chain of the same name that eventually converted to Big Lots. The Pic 'N' Save was previously a Rite Aid and its predecessor, Thrifty Drugs.