Hawthorne city officials are fed up with the owners of long-vacant Hawthorne Plaza and have obtained a permanent court injunction requiring them to either redevelop or demolish it by August 2026. The ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

Graffiti is scrawled on the walls. Light fixtures have been torn out. The roof is partially collapsed and code violations abound – from plumbing to electrical. Welcome to Hawthorne Plaza, an ...

A judge ordered owners of the long- abandoned Hawthorne Plaza mall to secure the site and step up safety measures while devising a plan to either redevelop or demolish it. It's the latest in an ...

Editor’s note: Ron Sokol has been interested in the future of the long-abandoned Hawthorne Plaza. After reaching out to Robert Kim, Hawthorne’s city attorney, about the status of a lawsuit over the ...

The city of Hawthorne obtained a court order to pressure ownership of the long-languishing Hawthorne Plaza shopping center to get moving on their redevelopment plans or demolish the property within a ...

Hawthorne city leaders have obtained a court order against the owners of the long-vacant Hawthorne Plaza Shopping Center, which calls for movement on the mall's redevelopment or demolition within one ...