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Background and History <br />MainPlace has undergone several renovations since its construction. <br />In the late 1950s, the mall was designed as an open-air shopping <br />center, Santa Ana Fashion Square. Fashion Square was built around <br />the largest existing tenant at the time, Bullock's department store, <br />which predated the mall by four years. In 1983, the project was <br />redeveloped from an open-air mall to allow for an enclosed mall with <br />office and hotel development allowed in addition to the retail uses. <br />At that time, an Environmental Impact Report was prepared and <br />certified for the full build -out of that entitlement (see Table 1-1 on <br />the following page). <br />The existing mall is broken into eight parcels based on recorded <br />Parcel Map 99-152. In 2000, a Vesting Parcel Map was approved <br />which further modified the approvals. The proposed project would <br />modify these past, more intense approvals, reducing the total retail, <br />office, and hotel intensities and adding residential uses. The vesting <br />parcel map approved in 2000 provided for up to 1,509,255 square <br />feet of retail, cinema and restaurant uses, 1,500,000 square feet of <br />office, and 400 hotel rooms. <br />The present mall includes 1,130,000 square feet of retail uses within <br />an enclosed mall building, three parking structures, and surface <br />parking. Most recently, MainPlace began to diversify the types of <br />uses on -site by adding a gym, furniture home store, restaurants, and <br />additional retail in the location of the previous Macy's Men's and <br />Home stores that were consolidated into the main store. <br />TTT <br />INTRODUCTION 1 1 <br />Historical imagery of MainPlace Mall area (formerly Fashion Square). <br />MAINPLACE SPECIFIC PLAN 1 1-13 <br />