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The Grove is a retail and entertainment complex in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
, built by the real estate firm Caruso Affiliated
Caruso Affiliated

Caruso Affiliated is a Real-estate developer company in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.. It is headed by Rick Caruso and was founded by his father, Henry Caruso, the founder of Dollar Rent A Car., Northwood University, Accessed January 14, 2008....
 on parts of the historic Farmers Market
Farmers Market (Los Angeles)

The Farmers Market is a heavily trafficked area of food stalls, sit-down eateries, prepared food vendors, and produce markets. It's also a historic Los Angeles landmark and tourist attraction, first opened in 1934....
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complex fills space previously occupied by an orchard and nursery
Nursery (horticulture)

A nursery is a place where plants are plant propagation and grown to usable size. There are retail nurseries which sell to the general public, wholesale nurseries which sell only to...
 (the last remains of a dairy farm owned by A.F.






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The Grove is a retail and entertainment complex in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
, built by the real estate firm Caruso Affiliated
Caruso Affiliated

Caruso Affiliated is a Real-estate developer company in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.. It is headed by Rick Caruso and was founded by his father, Henry Caruso, the founder of Dollar Rent A Car., Northwood University, Accessed January 14, 2008....
 on parts of the historic Farmers Market
Farmers Market (Los Angeles)

The Farmers Market is a heavily trafficked area of food stalls, sit-down eateries, prepared food vendors, and produce markets. It's also a historic Los Angeles landmark and tourist attraction, first opened in 1934....
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History

The complex fills space previously occupied by an orchard and nursery
Nursery (horticulture)

A nursery is a place where plants are plant propagation and grown to usable size. There are retail nurseries which sell to the general public, wholesale nurseries which sell only to...
 (the last remains of a dairy farm owned by A.F. Gilmore in the latter part of the 19th century). In spite of controversy over potentially increased traffic in a neighborhood that already offered several other shopping venues, including the Beverly Center, the developers began demolition of an antique alley and other older buildings on Third Street behind CBS Television City
CBS Television City

CBS Television City is a television studio located in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles at 7800 Beverly Boulevard, at the corner of Beverly and Fairfax avenues....
, and broke ground for the new mall in 1999. The Grove opened in 2002 and, by all press accounts, has been a busy and popular destination since that date.

Design

The 575,000-square-foot (53,000-m²) outdoor marketplace
Marketplace

A marketplace is the space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates. The term is also used in a trademark law context to denote the actual consumer environment, ie....
 is located in Los Angeles' Fairfax District
Fairfax District, Los Angeles, California

The Fairfax District is an area of neighborhoods in the Mid-City West area of Los Angeles, California....
. Caruso Affiliated claims to have modeled its architectural designs on indigenous Los Angeles buildings, influenced by classic historic districts with shopping alleys, broad plazas, and intimate courtyards. However, the design is a series of Art Deco
Art Deco

Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design, and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts and film....
-style false fronts with boxy interiors similar to other contemporary stores.

Attractions

The Grove features a large center park with an animated fountain by WET
WET (WET Design)

WET , also known as WET Design, is a water feature design firm based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 1983 by former Disney Imagineers Mark Fuller , Melanie Simon, and Alan Robinson....
. Its music-fountain show plays every half hour, though the feature has a non-musical program in between shows. The water's choreography is reminiscent of the Fountains of Bellagio
Bellagio (hotel and casino)

Bellagio is an American Automobile Association Five-Diamond, Mobil Five-Star rated luxury hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in the Paradise, Nevada area of unincorporated area Clark County, Nevada, Nevada, United States....
 in Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, Nevada, and an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and entertainment....
—also designed by WET—but on a smaller scale. There is also The Spirit of Los Angeles statue. An internal transit system uses electric-powered trolley cars to link The Grove and the adjacent Farmers Market. The Grove is anchored by the department store Nordstrom
Nordstrom

Nordstrom, Inc. is an upscale department store chain in the United States, founded by John W. Nordstrom. Initially a shoe retailer, the company today also sells clothing, accessories, handbags, jewelry, cosmetics, fragrances, and in some locations, home furnishings....
, as well as Banana Republic
Banana Republic

Banana Republic is a chain of mainly United States based clothes stores founded by Mel Ziegler and Patricia Ziegler in 1978 as a travel-themed clothing company....
, Michael Kors
Michael Kors

Michael Kors is an American fashion designer. "Michael Kors" also refers to his brands of apparel and fragrances....
, The Gap, J.Crew
J.Crew

J.Crew Group Inc. is an United States clothing and accessories retailer based in New York City, New York. Founded in 1983 with the launch of its mail order catalog, the company expanded into brick and mortar business retailing in 1989 with its first store at the South Street Seaport in New York City....
, Nike
Nike, Inc.

Nike, Inc. is a major Public company sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, near the Portland metropolitan area of Oregon....
, the West Coast flagship Abercrombie & Fitch
Abercrombie & Fitch

Abercrombie & Fitch is an United States clothing retailer encompassing five brands: The namesake flagship Abercrombie & Fitch, abercrombie kids, Hollister Co., RUEHL No.925 , and Gilly Hicks....
, and Pacific Sunwear
Pacific Sunwear

Pacific Sunwear of California Inc is a shopping mall retail store that sells surfing, snowboarding, Motocross, and skateboarding clothing and accessories for teenagers and young adults....
 and specialty outlets including Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble, Inc. is the largest book retailing in the United States, operating mainly through its Barnes & Noble Booksellers chain of bookstores headquartered in lower Fifth Avenue in Manhattan....
, Crate & Barrel, Barney's New York Co-op, Los Angeles flagship Apple Store
Apple Store (retail)

The Apple Store is a chain of retailer owned and operated by Apple Inc., dealing in computers and consumer electronics. As of February 2009, Apple has opened 251 stores; 208 in 41 United States states, 20 in the United Kingdom , nine in Canada, seven in Japan, three in Australia, two in Switzerland and one in Italy, Germany and China....
, and American Girl Place
American Girl (company)

American Girl is a line of dolls and accessories based on pre-teen girl characters from various periods of American history. Pleasant Rowland began selling them by mail order in 1986....
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The Grove's many restaurants include Maggiano's Little Italy
Maggiano's Little Italy

Maggiano's Little Italy is an Italian cuisine-style chain of casual dining restaurants with locations throughout the United States, Mexico, Canada, and Northern Ireland....
, Wood Ranch BBQ and Grill, Morels French Steakhouse, The Whisper Lounge, The Farm of Beverly Hills, La Piazza and The Cheesecake Factory
The Cheesecake Factory

The Cheesecake Factory, Inc. is a restaurant company in the United States. The company currently operates 146 dining restaurants under The Cheesecake Factory name is in 34 states and the District of Colombia....
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The main entertainment venue is a 14-screen movie theater complex
Multiplex

Multiplex may refer to:...
 owned by Pacific Theatres
Pacific Theatres

Pacific Theatres is a chain of movie theaters in the Los Angeles area of California. Pacific Theatres is owned by Decurion Corporation which also owns ArcLight Cinema Company ....
.

During the wintertime, fake snow
Snow

Snow is a type of precipitation in the form of crystalline water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes that fall from clouds. The process of this precipitation is called snowfall....
 falls periodically during the night.

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