Westfield Fashion Square sits on the block between Riverside Drive and the Ventura Freeway in Sherman Oaks, California. It’s an enclosed two-level mall with a parking deck on top.
It opened in 1962 as Bullock’s Fashion Square, a set of separate buildings with outdoor walks between them. A rebuild finished in 1990 put a roof over the old mall and hung a second floor of shops underneath it.
The pedestrian entrance from Riverside Drive came out during that work. A $200 million plan to enlarge the mall was drawn up in 2007 and never got built…