Several businesses surround the mall property, including 24 Hour Fitness, Albertsons, Best Buy, Burlington, and The Home Depot.

At 2,069,000 square feet (192,200 m2), the Lakewood Center is ranked among the largest retail shopping malls by gross leasable area in the United States.

The 1970s brought another department store to the property, with a two-level, 155,000 square-foot Montgomery Ward opening in 1975 in place of the former Butler Bros., which shuttered the previous year.

A new wing anchored by a two-level, 80,000 square-foot Mervyn's was constructed on the eastern side of the center in 1982, adding a second corridor to the mall's barbell shape.

The southern Pacific Theatres complex expanded into the former Buffums in 1992, adding six more screens in the process, while the former Bullock's was demolished to accommodate The Home Depot, which opened in 1995.

Months later, a member of legendary Hip-Hop artist Tupac Shakur "Death Row" entourage noticed Orlando Anderson on September 7, 1996 in an MGM in Las Vegas after a Tyson-Sheldon.

The original Pacific Theatres four-screen complex was shuttered in 1998 for a dramatic expansion and renovation, and reopened in 1999 as a modern sixteen-screen multiplex.