The Grove at Farmers Market
The animated fountains at The Grove
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| Location | Los Angeles, California |
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| Coordinates | 34°04′19″N 118°21′27″W / 34.071964°N 118.357515°WCoordinates: 34°04′19″N 118°21′27″W / 34.071964°N 118.357515°W |
| Address | 189 The Grove Drive Los Angeles, CA 90036 |
| Opening date | February 2002 |
| Developer | Caruso Affiliated |
| Owner | Caruso Affiliated |
| Architect | David Williams Elkus Manfredi |
| No. of anchor tenants | 1 |
| Total retail floor area | 600,000 sq ft (56,000 m2) |
| No. of floors | 2 |
| Website | www.thegrovela.com |
The Grove is a retail and entertainment complex in Los Angeles, California, built, owned, and operated by Rick J. Caruso and his company Caruso Affiliated on parts of the historical Farmers Market.
The complex fills space previously occupied by an orchard and nursery (the last remains of a dairy farm owned by A.F. Gilmore in the latter part of the 19th century). The developers began demolition of an antiques alley and other older buildings on Third Street behind CBS Television City, and broke ground for the new mall in 1999. There was some controversy over potentially increasing traffic in a busy Los Angeles neighborhood that already offered several other shopping venues, including the Beverly Center. The Grove opened in 2002 and has been an extremely popular outdoor mall ever since.
The Warner Bros. tabloid television news program Extra was also taped in the complex, and it was usually on their lawn area.
The history behind the development of the A.F. Gilmore property that eventually became The Grove was not without controversy. In 1984, A.F. Gilmore and neighboring CBS Television City hired Olympia & York California Equities Corp. to look into the possibility of creating a major business and entertainment complex that would have been twice as large as Universal City but would have required the demolition of all existing structures at both Farmers Market and CBS in the process. That plan was not well received by the City of Los Angeles or by its neighbors and the plan was later shelved. Two years later A.F. Gilmore and CBS hired Urban Investment & Development Co. of Chicago to create another development plan.
In 1989, A.F. Gilmore announced that it was going to build a $300 million mall adjacent to the existing Farmers Market and that the new project would be managed by JMB/Urban Development of Chicago. The proposed mall was going to be anchored by May Company California (180,000 sq ft), Nordstrom, and J. W. Robinson's (150,000 sq ft) along with over 100 other stores. Later, the project was scaled down to 2 anchors.
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