Fri Jan 21, 2005
Once
the keystone of Downtown Santa Monica's revival, the Santa Monica Place mall
now sits in the shadows of the Third Street Promenade. But the 1970s-era indoor
center's owners have big plans to radically change its shape and uses, opening
it to the sky, extending Third Street through to Colorado, adding 21-story
residential towers and building green space on the remaining 2.1 acres of
rooftop space.
Please join the Westside Urban Forum for an in-depth conversation on this project and what it means to the future of Downtown Santa Monica. Will the plans for Santa Monica Place, in whatever form they are finally approved, finally fulfill the site's original promise to connect the Civic Center, the Bayside District and the Pier? How will a new fully-private stretch of Third Street function differently than the public stretch of the Promenade? And what are the implications of street retail and green space becoming more and more the sole province of private developers?
Panelists
The Honorable Pam O'Connor, Mayor, City of Santa Monica
Randy Brant, Senior Vice President, The Macerich Company
Kathleen Rawson, Executive Director, the Bayside District
Doug Suisman, Principal, Suisman Urban Design
Moderator
Roger Sherman
Director, Fresh Urbs, Southern California Institute of Architecture
Principal, Roger Sherman Architecture & Urban Design
Please join the Westside Urban Forum for an in-depth conversation on this project and what it means to the future of Downtown Santa Monica. Will the plans for Santa Monica Place, in whatever form they are finally approved, finally fulfill the site's original promise to connect the Civic Center, the Bayside District and the Pier? How will a new fully-private stretch of Third Street function differently than the public stretch of the Promenade? And what are the implications of street retail and green space becoming more and more the sole province of private developers?
Panelists
The Honorable Pam O'Connor, Mayor, City of Santa Monica
Randy Brant, Senior Vice President, The Macerich Company
Kathleen Rawson, Executive Director, the Bayside District
Doug Suisman, Principal, Suisman Urban Design
Moderator
Roger Sherman
Director, Fresh Urbs, Southern California Institute of Architecture
Principal, Roger Sherman Architecture & Urban Design
