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# What’s in store for SM Place
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/whats-in-store-for-sm-place/
- Published: 2006-05-06T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T17:42:13.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Business, Santa Monica, #archive-import

Macerich Inc., which owns Santa Monica Place mall, announced this week that it will purchase 11 former Robinsons- May stores, including the one in Santa Monica that has been vacant for more than a month. With the sale, Macerich plans to move forward on its plans to redevelop the mall into an open-air shopping center under the same “lifestyle center” model, complete with retail, restaurants, movie theaters and recreation. A plan has not been submitted to City Hall but a former plan that was scrapped included three 21-story high rises.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 6, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/050606.pdf?ref=smdp.com)