Inside Bella Terra in Huntington Beach, CA: wild reinvention from indoor mall to open-air hub

Bella Terra starts as Huntington Center

Cars turned off Edinger Avenue into wide parking lanes, and the air changed as soon as the doors shut behind you.

Huntington Center opened in November 1966 as Orange County’s first enclosed, all-weather mall, built as a small indoor town, a ten-minute drive from the beach.

Planning began in 1962 as a joint venture between the Huntington Beach Company and Gordon L. McDonald Corp…

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