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Hawthorne Plaza stands empty for 25 years
Hawthorne, California
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Amin Eshaiker · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The mall opened on Hawthorne Boulevard in 1977 with about 135 shops, a JCPenney and a Broadway. It closed in 1999 and then simply stayed there, sealed and rotting, for a quarter of a century while redevelopment deals fell apart. Film crews used the dead corridors for Minority Report, Tokyo Drift and Gone Girl. A court order finally set a demolition deadline in 2026.
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