2000s and Beyond: Building for the Future

The new Luxury Wing at the Del Amo Fashion Center, above, includes a Nordstrom store as well as many new stores and restaurants. It opened in 2015.

In the early part of the new decade, then owner of Del Amo Fashion Center, Mills Corporation, redeveloped the area at the northeast section of the center by demolishing the Montgomery Ward building as well as a wing of the mall to create the outdoor, Lifestyle Wing.

The wing, with a new movie theater, restaurants, specialty shops and a promenade feel, opened in 2006.

In 2007, Simon Property Group took over management at the mall, and in 2010 announced plans to revamp more of the aging facility. The plans hinged on getting a well-known, major retailer for the mall.

And that came to fruition when Nordstrom announced it would move into a brand new store at the northern end of the mall, serving as the anchor store for a wing of high-end fashion retailers and a slate of new restaurants along Hawthorne Boulevard.

Dubbed the Luxury Wing, this portion of the shopping center opened in October, 2015.

More changes were taking place around this time, as the City broke began work at the site of the Torrance Transit Park and Ride Regional Terminal. This new facility will serve as a regional transit hub for the South Bay, with the possibility of a light rail station coming to the area in the future.

While much has changed in Torrance, and with much more in store, Torrance has remained largely stable.

With a mix of residential, commercial and industrial interests, Torrance continues to be a balanced City.