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FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Column One: ‘This mall has been devastated.’ A lean Christmas, empty stores and an unsettling future [Los Angeles Times] The food court is mostly shuttered. The Museum of African American Art, located improbably inside a Macy’s, is closed for now. And Black Santa is not coming to town. The Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza may be open, but it doesn’t much feel that way. Gone is the classic mall background noise Top 40 music drowned out by people talking, walking, rustling shopping bags. Gone are the free weekly workouts and the book readings. The stores have signs in the windows noting that they are open with limited capacity, but more often than not there’s only a lone shopkeeper inside. ....
The Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza may be open, but it doesn’t much feel that way. For the record: 8:58 AM, Dec. 22, 2020A previous version of this article misidentified CIM Group’s headquarters as being located in New York. The company is based in Los Angeles. Gone is the classic mall background noise Top 40 music drowned out by people talking, walking, rustling shopping bags. Gone are the free weekly workouts and the book readings. The stores have signs in the windows noting that they are open with limited capacity, but more often than not there’s only a lone shopkeeper inside. ....