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    In a sign of the times, O.C. malls will be places to live as well as shop

    Growing up in Orange County, California, in the late 1970s, KL DeHart often wandered the Westminster Mall with her mother, checking out the latest fashions and seeing what movies were playing. As a teenager, she spent many weekends there with friends playing pinball and skeeball at the arcade and shopping for trendy Chemin De Fer jeans. Now, the mall is pocked with empty storefronts. At the ...
    by Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times Feb 28, 2023 5 minutes
    Shoppers at Westminster Mall in Westminster, California, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023.

    Growing up in Orange County, California, in the late 1970s, KL DeHart often wandered the Westminster Mall with her mother, checking out the latest fashions and seeing what movies were playing.

    As a teenager, she spent many weekends there with friends playing pinball and skeeball at the arcade and shopping for trendy Chemin De Fer jeans.

    Now, the mall is pocked with empty storefronts. At the remaining businesses, employees eagerly jump to help the few customers passing through.

    What may rise in its place, if developers and city officials have their way, is a new kind of mall, one that will include lawns, walking trails and thousands of apartments.

    "It was the hip place to be, and it's really faded out, but it's just sad to see it go," said DeHart, a 55-year-old massage therapist who still lives near the mall, in the

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