Backstory: The-900,000-square foot mall has been vacant for 25 years. Instead of attracting shoppers, the gutted mall in the ...

City officials have obtained a permanent injunction against the long-vacant Hawthorne Plaza, which has served as a ...

West Hollywood-based property development firm The Charles Company owns the Hawthorne mall property. The firm also owns several abandoned buildings in North Hollywood's Valley Plaza shopping center, ...

Once known as the Hawthorne Plaza Shopping Center, city officials say the famously dead mall has become a magnet for illegal dumping, graffiti, homeless encampments, and hazardous conditions including ...

Hawthorne city leaders have obtained a court order against the owners of the long-vacant Hawthorne Plaza Shopping Center, which requires action on the mall's redevelopment or demolition within one ...

The City Council made a land deal that outgoing City Attorney Robert Kim felt was not in the best interest of the city.

A rubbish fire erupted Wednesday in the vacant Hawthorne Plaza shopping center, sending a thick plume of black smoke into the air. The fire was reported about 9:35 a.m. at the former mall in the 12100 ...

A pedestrian passes Wednesday by the old Hawthorne Plaza in Hawthorne that has been closed for decades. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Hawthorne city officials are fed up with the owners of ...

Hawthorne city officials are fed up with the owners of long-vacant Hawthorne Plaza and have obtained a permanent court injunction requiring them to either redevelop or demolish it by August 2026. The ...