Paseo Nuevo is an open-air shopping center in downtown

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. It is integrated into the street grid on and around lower State Street, both in terms of its

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, but also in that its pedestrian promenades, are similarly positioned mid-block at right angles to the surrounding streets, as are the traditional alleyways of the city's downtown. The center opened in 1990, was anchored by

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and a

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department store. The mall was built by the Santa Barbara City Redevelopment Agency, and John Field was the architect. The Broadway was converted to

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, which closed in 2017. That building is, as of mid-2020, still empty, and is now referred to as the Ortega Building. The Nordstrom closed in 2020 during the

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. Plans were put forward in 2019 for the center's renovation and repositioning."A Classic Reinvented: Paseo Nuevo Renovations Underway: Renovation of Paseo Nuevo Plans Revealed" (Press Release), Paseo Nuevo website
/ref> With the closing of Nordstrom, plans were presented to convert that space to housing and a hotel.

References

{{Shopping malls in California Shopping malls in Santa Barbara County, California">"Management of Paseo Nuevo in Santa Barbara Considering Housing, Hotel for Nordstrom Building: Longtime anchor store in the shopping center is closing this summer", Joshua Molina, ''Noozhawk'' Santa Barbara, June 17, 2020

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