Malls · California

Indian Hill Mall

From the authors' mapReinhabitedRetrofit builtPomona, CA

Opened 1955. Reinhabited in 1995.

Status nowRetrofit builtderived from authors' map (retrofit year present) reported

What it becameretail, educationextracted, unreviewed reported

Site size39 acresextracted, unreviewed

documented

on 39 acres (16 ha).

en.wikipedia.org

Retrofit year1995authors' map reported

Walkability14.2 of 20 · 15-minute 3 of 6EPA, OpenStreetMap

Rail within 800 mNo · Opportunity ZoneOpenStreetMap, HUD

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Site profile22 elements · what this retrofit is built with · tap a chip for the evidence

Former anchors

Sears

This site: Sears wikipedia · all sites with this

Finance and pipeline

On Facebook

This site: …https://www.facebook.com/180635446526 overture · all sites with this

Website dead or redirecting

This site: …http://www.villageatindianhill.com overture / http check · all sites with this

Ownership

Public body

This site: Pomona Unified School District county-parcels · all sites with this

Place

100k+ jobs within 45 min by transit

This site: 307,067 epa-walkability · all sites with this

200+ tax-credit housing units within 1 km

This site: 228 units in 4 properties hud-lihtc · all sites with this

Bike network nearby

This site: 12 ways openstreetmap · all sites with this

County permitting 2,000+ apartment units a year

This site: 9,430 units, Los Angeles County census-bps · all sites with this

County typical rent $2,000+

This site: $2,806/mo zillow · all sites with this

High earthquake risk

This site: Very High fema-nri · all sites with this

High inland flooding risk

This site: Very High fema-nri · all sites with this

High natural hazard risk (FEMA NRI)

This site: Relatively High; inland flooding, earthquake fema-nri · all sites with this

High social vulnerability tract (SVI ≥ 0.75)

This site: 0.99 cdc-svi · all sites with this

Opportunity Zone

This site: 06037402702 hud-oz · all sites with this

Renter-majority tract

This site: 72% census-acs · all sites with this

Shrinking county

This site: -2.5% census-acs · all sites with this

Tract house prices doubled in 10 years

This site: +115% fhfa · all sites with this

Walkable block group (EPA ≥ 12)

This site: …index 14.2 epa-walkability · all sites with this

Strategy

Reinhabited

This site: Reinhabitation: education and office record · all sites with this

New use

Education

This site: …new_use field extraction · all sites with this

Office

This site: Reinhabitation: education and office extraction · all sites with this

Retail (continued)

This site: …new_use field extraction · all sites with this

All elements and lists · Trends

From the authors' map

CA, Pomona: Indian Hill Mall/ The Village at Indian Hill, 1995
• Reinhabitation: education and office

Now

Status	Retrofit builtderived from authors' map (retrofit year present) reported
Strategy	Reinhabitedauthors' map reported
New uses	retail, educationextracted, unreviewed reported
What is there now	Reinhabitation: education and officeauthors' map reported
Retrofit year	1995authors' map reported
Redeveloper	National Redevelopment and American Income Propertiesextracted, unreviewed reported

Site context

FEMA flood zone	X · AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARDFEMA NFHL
EPA-regulated facilities within 500 m	39: 655 N. MILLS AVENUE; 671 ABBEY LANE UNIT 1 & 2; A CAR AUTO WRECKING INC; ABZ AUTO WRECKERS; BURRTEC POMONA YARDEPA FRS
Census tract 06037402702	4,937 people, 8,533 per sq mi; median household income $52,484; median gross rent $1,525; 72% renters; 9.0% vacant units; 5.1% commute by transitACS 2023 5-year
Walkability (EPA, block group)	index 14.2 of 20; 89 intersections per sq mi; nearest transit stop 527 m; land-use mix 0.65; 209,051 jobs within 45 min by car, 307,067 by transit; 18% of households without a carEPA Smart Location
Within a 10–15 minute walk (800 m)	3 of 6 daily needs: 0 grocers, 0 schools, 1 parks or playgrounds, 0 health, 1 civic, 3 food and drink; 12 cycleway segments, 19 sidewalk-tagged segmentsOpenStreetMap
Opportunity Zone	yes, tract 06037402702 (rural)HUD
Housing permits, Los Angeles County (CA), 2024	9,430 units in 5+ unit buildings, 1,273 in 2–4, 9,106 single-family; 2023: 13,214 in 5+Census BPS
Social vulnerability (CDC SVI 2022, tract)	overall percentile 0.99; socioeconomic 0.97; housing and transport 0.99; 51% below 150% of poverty; 14% of households with no vehicleCDC/ATSDR
Other atlas sites nearby	0 within 10 km, 5 within 25 kmcomputed
Overture Maps	place The Village at Indian Hill (party_and_event_planning, confidence 1.00, from Overture, Overture-signals, meta); building footprint 22,996 m², 7.6 mOverture (CDLA-Permissive 2.0)
Website and social	www.villageatindianhill.com (down or redirecting, status 0); archived 2008–2025 (Wayback) · social: facebookOverture / Internet Archive
Attention: Wikipedia page views	4,856 since 2015; 816 in the last 12 months (-20% vs the prior 12); peak 2024-07 with 115Wikimedia
Tract change 2013–2023	population -18% (5,995 → 4,937); median income +49% ($35,278 → $52,484); renters 76% → 72%; median home value +105% ($266,300 → $546,700)Census ACS 5-year
Natural hazard risk (FEMA National Risk Index, tract)	relatively high overall (score 97.1); expected annual loss $4.4M; high: inland flooding, earthquake; community resilience very lowFEMA NRI
Tax-credit housing within 1 km	4 LIHTC properties, 228 units: Montclair Senior Housing Project (85 units); San Antonio Vista Apts (75 units); Vista Del Cielo Apts (50 units)HUD LIHTC
Retail trade in the county, 2025 (BLS QCEW)	391,331 jobs in 28,960 establishments; average annual pay $52,235; employment location quotient 0.87; employment -1.7% on the yearBLS QCEW 2025, NAICS 44-45, private
Jobs located in the tract, 2022	1,864 jobs; 214 in retail trade, 90 in accommodation and food (workplace blocks summed to tract 06037402702)Census LEHD LODES8 WAC 2022
Upward mobility (Opportunity Atlas, 2010 tract)	children of low-income (25th percentile) families reached the 38th income percentile as adults; 2.6% incarcerated at the 2010 count (2,077 children in the sample); born 1978–83, measured 2014–15Opportunity Insights
Food access (USDA FARA 2019, 2010 tract)	not a low-access tract at 1 mile; poverty rate 43.4%; median family income $30,574; 497 SNAP householdsUSDA ERS
Schools	Pomona Unified School District (KG-12); 8 public schools within 1 mile: San Antonio ROP; Lehigh Elementary; Ramona Elementary; San Antonio ElementaryNCES EDGE
Elevation	918 ft above sea level at the site pointUSGS 3DEP
Storm events in the county, 2016-2025	157 county-logged events: 86 flash flood, 35 thunderstorm wind, 21 debris flow, 6 hail; $8,000 property damage reported; 1 direct deaths; forecast-zone events (most flood, winter and heat) not countedNOAA Storm Events
Homes for sale in ZIP 91767, 2026-09	median list price $699,000 (-2.8% on the year); 49 active listings; median 57 days on market; 17% with a price cutRealtor.com Research
Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 2023	28,998 establishments (+2%); 419,890 jobs (+8%)Census CBP
Housing market in the county	typical home value $871,674 (+0% 1 yr, +13% 5 yr); typical rent $2,806/mo (+1% 1 yr), 2026-09Zillow Research
House price index, tract, 2024	485 (2000 = 100), +44% 5 yr, +115% 10 yrFHFA
Traffic on the busiest road within 600 m (2024)	26,219 vehicles a day (principal arterial, 4 lanes); 26 counted segmentsFHWA HPMS

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Elsewhere on the web

Retail history: Indian Hill Mall on DeadMalls.com photos, field notes and visitor memories since 2000; matched by name and city; nothing copied here

Pages with photos

THE VILLAGE AT INDIAN HILL - Updated July 202… yelp.com

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Multifamily screen

retrofit already built
39 acres
county shrank -2.5% 2018–23
median rent $1,893

Inputs: record fields (size, status) and county Census ACS 2018–2023 figures (growth, rent). How the points work. Not a recommendation.

History and original facts

Now called / also known as	The Village at Indian Hill
Opened	1955Wikidata
Acres	39.0extracted, unreviewed documented on 39 acres (16 ha). en.wikipedia.org
Anchors	Zody's, Sears, Roberts Department Store
County	Los Angeles County
Census division	9 · Pacific

Not yet recorded: GLA, original developer. Know it? Tell us.

Background

Indian Hill Village is a former shopping mall in Pomona, California. It has been redeveloped into a multi-use retail, commercial, and educational facility and is now known as The Village @ Indian Hill, comprising 650,000 square feet (60,000 m2) on 39 acres (16 ha).

Excerpt from Wikipedia (authors and history), CC BY-SA 4.0. May be older than the record above.

Timeline

1954 Sears anchor store dedicated
1955 Opened (Wikidata)
1969 Zody's discount store opened as second anchor
1970 F.C. Nash store sold to Roberts Department Store
1974 Mall renamed Indian Hill Village
1979 Mall had 19 stores and $32 million taxable sales
1979 Renovation announced to enclose mall
1982 Renovation completed, mall enclosed
1985 Sears relocated to Montclair Plaza Mall
1995 Retrofit: reinhabit
1995 Part of property acquired by Pomona Unified School District

Sources

Wikipedia · supports: acres
11 quoted sentences
on 39 acres (16 ha).
Its anchor store, a 111,500-square-foot (10,360 m2) Sears, had been dedicated in November 1954.
A 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m2) Zody's discount store opened in June 1969 as the center's second anchor.
One year later, the F.C. Nash store was sold to Roberts Department Store.
Retrofitting Suburbia Interactive Mall Map (ArcGIS web map ce33ab26…) · 2021-01-20

Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Indian Hill Mall, Pomona, CA." Record m-b542db5347, from the authors' map. Built on the public Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed. https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/ca/pomona-indian-hill-mall/ (accessed 2026-10-20).

BibTeX

@misc{retrofitatlas_pomonaindianhillmall,
  title = {Indian Hill Mall, Pomona, CA},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/ca/pomona-indian-hill-mall/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record m-b542db5347, release 2026-10-20, tier: curated. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-20}
}

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