Baldwin Hills Crenshaw
Shopping mall · Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw ·
Community hub with Black-owned businesses, shops, and eateries
Community hub with Black-owned businesses, shops, and eateries
"Formally known as Melanin Market, Nothin But BLK is a neighborhood flea market being held this Saturday, July 10th at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Outdoor Promenade. It runs from 10am-5pm and features Black-owned businesses, merchants, and local artists. When you get hungry, you can pop next door to the Crenshaw Farmers Market. We haven’t been here yet, but want you to know this spot exists." - Team Infatuation
"Planned changes and a redevelopment timetable at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Mall were a factor in the decision to close the Hotville Chicken restaurant now, and Prince maintains close ties with the mall’s new owners, expressing optimism that there will once again be a Hotville Chicken at the property after redevelopment as they aim to create a big economic footprint on Crenshaw Boulevard." - Farley Elliott
"The mall itself feels like part of Hotville’s challenge: I observed long rows of cars for takeout in a vast parking lot but little foot traffic, and many customers arrive surprised and ask whether the mall is closed; the struggling property was sold to a development group planning housing, offices, retail, and new restaurants, and that uncertainty has forced nearby businesses to continually reassure the neighborhood that they are open for business." - Farley Elliott
"A historic South LA shopping center currently at the center of a contentious redevelopment fight: long-planned mixed-use proposals would add hundreds of new condos and apartments, a large hotel, office space, restaurants, and retail, but the site today has only a handful of operating tenants and a small food court. Local activists and Downtown Crenshaw Rising mounted an ambitious, community-focused acquisition and redevelopment bid — raising roughly $59.5 million (including $34 million in philanthropy) and assembling local architects and designers — that emphasized affordable housing, job-training programs, a six-acre park, daycare, a recording studio, an entertainment production district with a theater, and a permanent home for a local food co-op alongside commercial uses. Despite submitting the highest reported offer (about $115 million) and a plan meant to preserve historic community character, the group says the sale process favored larger, nonlocal developers; the current owner/brokerage selected an LA-based development firm with a track record of large mixed-use projects and financial backing from an international billionaire, a result that has renewed community fears about displacement and gentrification. The transaction is slated to close at the end of July unless further action intervenes." - Mona Holmes
"Formally known as Melanin Market, Nothin But BLK is a neighborhood flea market being held this Saturday, July 10th at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Outdoor Promenade. It runs from 10am-5pm and features Black-owned businesses, merchants, and local artists. When you get hungry, you can pop next door to the Crenshaw Farmers Market." - Brant Cox