[5] The renovation replaced the 1980s-era food court and movie theater with an alfresco Dining Terrace and a flagship 15-screen AMC cinema.
The renovation also brought a new two-level retail building housing a Borders bookstore and a Container Store on the top level and numerous retailers on the bottom, a reskin of the existing Bloomingdale's store, the addition of a restaurant row facing Santa Monica Boulevard, and a general remodeling of the center.
[6] Ten stories were eliminated from the proposed building at the behest of Century City residents.
A planned residential tower was removed from the project to make way for additional retail, which now numbered more than 1.3 million square feet.
[9] The final piece of the $1 billion project, Italian food marketplace Eataly, opened on November 3, 2017.