# Broadway & 87th Street shopping center

Los Angeles, CA · mall · tier: draft · Retrofit Atlas record `m-7b3af2d6e1` · release 2026-10-21

Canonical: https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/ca/los-angeles-broadway-87th-street-shopping-center/  
JSON: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/m-7b3af2d6e1.json · Provenance: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/m-7b3af2d6e1.provenance.json · API: https://retrofitatlas.org/api/v1/sites/m-7b3af2d6e1

## Facts

| Field | Value | Provenance |
|---|---|---|
| Status | closed | documented · model extraction, unreviewed |
| What is there now | Former South Los Angeles swap meet | documented · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Closed | 2020 | documented · model extraction, unreviewed |

## Quoted support

- **year_closed**: “The shopping center closed in 2020.” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_%26_87th_Street_shopping_center
- **after_notes**: “By March 2021, the property was being marketed as the 'Former South Los Angeles swap meet', indicating that its operation as an indoor swap meet had ceased by that time.” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_%26_87th_Street_shopping_center
- **status**: “The shopping center closed in 2020.” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_%26_87th_Street_shopping_center
- **architect_original**: “The Broadway & 87th Street shopping center designed by Wisstein Bros. and Surval, was one of the earliest shopping centers in Los Angeles” — extraction-deep:nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b

## Anchors

Thrifty Drug Stores, Woolworth's, Mayfair's Foodtown supermarket, Owl Rexall Drugs, Newberry's

## Timeline

- 2020: Shopping center closed
- 2020: Property sold
- 2021: Property marketed as former swap meet

## Background (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, shortened)

The Broadway & 87th Street shopping center designed by Wisstein Bros. and Surval, was one of the earliest shopping centers in Los Angeles, built in stages between 1936 and 1939 at 8701–8765 South Broadway between 87th and 88th streets, in what is now termed the Broadway-Manchester neighborhood. Researcher and author Richard Longstreth calls it the first true neighborhood shopping center.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_%26_87th_Street_shopping_center

## Sources

- Quoted support for year_closed — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_%26_87th_Street_shopping_center

## Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Broadway & 87th Street shopping center, Los Angeles, CA." Record m-7b3af2d6e1, release 2026-10-21, tier draft. https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/ca/los-angeles-broadway-87th-street-shopping-center/ (accessed 2026-10-21).

```bibtex
@misc{retrofitatlas_losangelesbroadway87thstreetshoppingcent,
  title = {Broadway & 87th Street shopping center, Los Angeles, CA},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/ca/los-angeles-broadway-87th-street-shopping-center/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record m-7b3af2d6e1, release 2026-10-21, tier: draft. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-21}
}
```

Licence: research use only; terms undecided with the authors (https://retrofitatlas.org/licence/). Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0. Tiers: curated = from the authors' public map, not reviewed by them; draft = imported or model-extracted, unreviewed.