Grossmont Center

Grossmont Center is an outdoor shopping mall in La Mesa, California, a suburb in East County, San Diego.

The store design featured 3,200 feet (980 m) of moldings, gold leaf lettering, murals painted by five artists, and a Gothic-style canopy over its entry.

[2] Fifty thousand people attended the mall's opening ceremonies on October 5, 1961 – 20,000 more than the population of La Mesa at the time.

[8] The former Buffum's became Oshman's SuperSports USA (later bought out by Sports Authority) in 1991,[9] while Target opened in the vacated Bullock's store in 1995.

A new updated location 15 minutes from the Grossmont Center CEC in the nearby city of Santee opened on September 18, 2023.

[15] In 2021 Federal Realty, a publicly traded real estate investment trust, purchased a majority interest in the center, which had been owned and operated for decades by one family.