Pasadena, California, is the latest city to

Pasadena, California, is the latest city to join the movement to replace dying shopping malls with mixed-use development. Plaza Pasadena, an enclosed mall built in the 1970s, covers a three- block area in the heart of downtown and obliterates one block of Garfield Street. Demolition of the mall began on April 1, and it will be replaced by Paseo Colorado, a project that mixes 600,000 square feet of retail and restaurants with offices and 400 residential rental units. The project will reopen the lost section of Garfield Street as a pedestrian corridor – because it runs over a subterranean parking garage, it won’t support vehicular traffic. Paseo Colorado is designed by Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn.