The entrance of the shuttered Westminster Mall was demolished on Wednesday during an official ceremony kicking off months of work that will level the structures to make way for a new development.
If approved, the plan is to turn the land into a mix of housing and retail space, with a proposal that includes a hotel, a food hall and a two-acre park.
“It’s absolutely exciting,” Westminster City Manager Christine Cordon said. “The city is only about 10 square miles, and that site is about 100 acres, which is probably one of the largest developable pieces of land in the area for a mixed-use development. As you’ve known, Westminster Mall has been in our community for a little over 50 years, and times have changed. People’s expectations have changed.”…