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July 11, 2023
By The Epoch Times
New apartments and townhomes are coming to Buena Park after city councilors voted unanimously June 27 to approve a new multifaceted housing project during a lengthy public hearing.
June 29, 2023
By Globe St.
The 25-acre redevelopment by San Diego-based Merlone Geier Partners will replace an anchor store which closed in 2020—when Sears announced it was closing 100 stores—at Buena Park Downtown, a mall located on 8150 La Palma Avenue in Buena Park.
June 28, 2023
By The Orange County Register
A 25-acre housing project — that will include about 1,300 homes in a complex consisting of buildings up to seven stories high — will be constructed in Buena Park near the Downtown Mall over the next four years. The Village at Buena Park, as the project is called, will include 1,302 units, 176 of which are designated for affordable housing.
June 28, 2023
By Voice of OC
Buena Park City Council members unanimously approved plans to build 1,300 units from one to three bedrooms, as well as studios and three-story townhomes, at the Buena Park Mall’s old Sears property on the corner of La Palma and Stanton Avenues.
June 26, 2023
By Orange County Business Journal
Buena Park’s largest mall is poised to receive a mixed-use facelift, via a nearly $650 million project that could add 1,302 homes in the largest housing project the city has seen in decades.
June 26, 2023
By The Real Deal
Merlone Geier Partners wants to replace a defunct Sears at the Buena Park Downtown Mall with 1,300 homes.
June 26, 2023
By The Orange County Register
A proposed mixed-use project, estimated to develop some 1,300 residential units on about 25 acres, is before the Buena Park City Council on Tuesday, June 27.
June 1, 2023
By Spectrum News 1
BUENA PARK, Calif. — On a recent day, Jamas Gwilliam stood in front of Buena Park Downtown Mall's former Sears building and imagined the site's possibilities.