Former Sears at Westfield Topanga to become upscale dining, entertainment district

By January 7, 2020Client News

Former Sears at Westfield Topanga to become upscale dining, entertainment district

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Construction will begin in a few days on a long-vacant Sears building near Westfield Topanga mall in Warner Center, according to representatives with the mall’s owner, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield.

The Paris-based mall giant will transform the 160,000-square-foot former department store into a posh entertainment complex with an upscale movie theater, bowling alley and restaurants.

The property, designed with three levels of glass and landscaping, will feature a grand entrance for Westfield Topanga, connecting the mall with The Village, across Victory Boulevard, making the area more walkable for visitors. The $250-million development is slated to open in late 2021.

The former Sears store site at Westfield Topanga in Canoga Park, CA., on Tuesday, January 7, 2020. Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

 

“The thing that is really missing there is a significant dining and entertaining district,” said Larry Green, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield’s executive vice president for development. “What we’re doing is taking down the former Sears store and turning that space into a new front door for Topanga”

The company says the Sears building at 6600 Topanga Canyon Blvd. in Woodland Hills will feature a chef-driven Food Hall along with upscale restaurants, lounges and cocktail bars, entertainment and recreational activities and landscaped indoor and outdoor public spaces and plazas.