Third Street Promenade’s occupancy map tracks all…
A Santa Monica product designer is placing laborious numbers to what locals have long recognized in their bones: almost three in 10 storefronts on the Third Street Promenade sit empty.
The designer constructed an interactive map monitoring occupancy along the hall, and the numbers aren’t fairly — 28.5% of storefronts are vacant, a bleak snapshot of a once-buzzing beachside purchasing strip that has been hollowing out for years. He didn’t reply to The Post’s requests for an interview.
The out of doors Santa Monica Mall, two blocks from the seashore, used to be bustling with customers, but online purchasing and homelessness in town modified all that.
A screengrab from the Third Street Occupancy web site — gray dots show empty storefronts, inexperienced dots show energetic leases and yellow dots are for companies that are coming soon. thirdstreetoccupancy.com
A Santa Monica product designer is placing laborious numbers to what locals have long recognized in their bones: almost three in 10 storefronts on the Third Street Promenade sit empty. Photo Copyright John Chapple / instagram: @JohnChapple
The data has been revealed by The Post just days after yet another blow to the strip: The Misfit Bar and Restaurant, a softly-lit gastropub inside town’s historic Clock Tower building, announced it’s going to shutter this weekend after 15 years. You can view the map right here.
Elsewhere in Santa Monica, on Thursday The Britannia pub also announced it will close in the future to make method for a Taco Bell Cantina, a lot to the dismay of locals.
Owner LGO Hospitality opted not to renew the lease, citing ongoing frustrations with the property — including inconsistent building possession — as properly as a decline in foot visitors and total situations.
The data has been revealed by The Post just days after yet another blow to the strip. CA Post/Corey Moss
Big retailers like Old Navy, Gap, H&M and AMC have already fled the world, additional eroding the foot visitors. Photo Copyright John Chapple / instagram: @JohnChapple
Big retailers like Old Navy, Gap, H&M and AMC have already fled the world, additional eroding the foot visitors that once made the promenade one of LA’s most standard purchasing locations.
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City officers have scrambled to reverse the slide. Santa Monica lately voted to broaden an out of doors Entertainment Zone — or a mini Bourbon Street — permitting adults to drink outside along the promenade, and allotted $3 million in financial development funds to help restaurant attraction incentives and business recruitment.
A large music competition deliberate for September is also in the works, with organizers hoping to draw between 30,000 and 35,000 attendees.
But for locals watching storefronts go darkish one by one, the temper is grim.
“I hate this so much,” one Redditor posted about the Misfit closure. “My fave bar in Santa Monica. Absolutely insane, there’s nothing left downtown.”
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