Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza

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Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza (alternately BHCP) is a shopping mall located within the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The mall lies southwest of Interstate 10. This was one of the first regional shopping centers in the United States built specifically for the automobile. The two anchor buildings, completed in 1947, retain their original Streamline Moderne style. Since the mid-1960s, the mall has become a major economic and cultural entertainment hub of surrounding African American communities which include a spectrum of socioeconomic classes. Approximately 32,000 people in the surrounding neighborhood visit the mall each year.

The mall's remaining anchor store is TJ Maxx after the closure of Macy's, Sears and Walmart. An additional net 2 million square feet (190,000 m2) of new development was approved by the city in 2018. The approved plan includes apartments, condominiums, a 400-room hotel, office space and additional stores. The mall has been seeking a buyer who would build out the approved plan. The sale has been challenged with community protests including a group of neighborhood activists who made a play to acquire the property and develop it as a community-owned project. In 2021, Los Angeles based real estate company Harridge Development Group, bought the mall for about $111 million.