Carmel Plaza is a self-described "upscale, outdoor lifestyle shopping center" in

Carmel-by-the-Sea, California Carmel-by-the-Sea (), often simply called Carmel, is a city in Monterey County, California, United States, founded in 1902 and incorporated on October 31, 1916. Situated on the Monterey Peninsula, Carmel is known for its natural scenery and ric ...

in the block bounded by Ocean, Junipero, Mission and 7th streets. It is currently anchored by

Sur la Table Sur La Table, Inc. is a privately held retail company based in Seattle, Washington, that sells kitchenware including cookware, cutlery, cooks' tools, small electrics, tabletop and linens, bakeware, glassware and bar, housewares, food, and outdoo ...

, and

Anthropologie Anthropologie is an American clothing retailer with approximately 200 stores across the U.S., Canada, and the UK that offers an assortment of clothing, jewelry, home furniture, decoration, beauty products, and gifts. Anthropologie is part of ...

and is home to luxury goods retailers such as Tiffany. Three stories of shops surround an open-air courtyard. Despite its small size, the center has been host to small branches of three department stores. At opening on August 18, 1960,"Finding Aid to the I. Magnin & Co. Records 1893-1998 (bulk 1930-1994) SFH 2", Online Archive of California
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I. Magnin I. Magnin & Company was a San Francisco, California-based high fashion and specialty goods luxury department store. Over the course of its existence, it expanded across the West into Southern California and the adjoining states of Arizona, Oregon, ...

opened a store here. Both the store and the center were designed by architect Olof Dahlstrand.

Joseph Magnin The Joseph Magnin Company was a high-end specialty department store founded in San Francisco, California, by Joseph Magnin, 4th son of Isaac Magnin founder of the I. Magnin department store. Joseph Magnin Co. and I. Magnin Co. were rivals. Histo ...

opened in 1974. After the Joseph Magnin chain closed in 1984,

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opened on May 31, 1986. The shopping mall was built in 1960 by Gerson Bakar and Steve Jacobs. It was sold to

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in 1998, and again to the O'Connor Group in 2012.

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