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Panorama Mall

Panorama Mall

Panorama Mall is a mall in Panorama City, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California. It is an enclosed mall anchored by only one large discount store, Walmart. The mall originally opened as the open-air Broadway–Valley shopping center in 1955. Similar to what happened with nearby Valley Plaza, af

ter opening additional department stores and retail strips opened on the periphery of the Broadway center. During the 1960s the merchants' association of the various owners marketed its retail properties collectively as the Panorama City Shopping Center. In 1964 it claimed to be the first center with four major department stores. Panorama Mall was renovated and enclosed in 1980. History The Broadway–Valley shopping center, as it was then known, opened on October 10, 1955, as a single strip of stores along Van Nuys Blvd. north of Roscoe Blvd, with 89,000 square feet (8,300 m2) of retail space adjacent to and sharing a parking lot with a 226,000-square-foot (21,000 m2) Broadway department store designed by architect Welton Becket. Silverwoods, Mandel's, Kinney Shoes, Lerner's and Woolworth were the other stores in the complex. The anchor department stores opened as follows: The Broadway, opened October 10, 1955, 226,000 square feet (21,000 m2), 3 stories, currently Walmart Montgomery Ward, opened September 13, 1961, 154,537 square feet (14,357.0 m2), 2 stories, closed in 2001, building demolished in November 2024 J. W. Robinson's, opened on June 27, 1961 Ohrbach's, opened October 7,

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