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SANTA MONICA PLACE has finalized plans to convert the spaces left vacant by Bloomingdale’s and Arclight Cinemas into Santa Monica Workplace, a future office campus. As you can imagine, there is a great deal of online chatter opposing this new configuration. This is not only frustrating, but is a blow to the City of Santa Monica and its future impact on the local economic, retail and entertainment industries. Unfortunately Macerich, the leasing agent for the Mall, is only interested in leasing the space as soon as possible and not taking into account what are our City’s needs are for locals and visitors alike. Listed here are a number of points why this conversion should not occur: