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By Angelina, @AngelinaOnAir Apr 25, 2021 End of an era! The Hilltop Mall in Richmond closed its doors for good yesterday (Friday, April 23). The mall has a new owner that has plans to redevelop the area in the near future. “At one time, Hilltop mall was a big generator of sales tax revenue for the city. It was a very busy place. And, along with most malls in America, it died out,” Mayor Tom Butt said.  Did you grow up going to Hilltop Mall? Let us know @WiLD949! Photo: GettyImages.

By Angelina, @AngelinaOnAir Apr 25, 2021 End of an era! The Hilltop Mall in Richmond closed its doors for good yesterday (Friday, April 23). The mall has a new owner that has plans to redevelop the area in the near future. “At one time, Hilltop mall was a big generator of sales tax revenue for the city. It was a very busy place. And, along with most malls in America, it died out,” Mayor Tom Butt said.  Did you grow up going to Hilltop Mall? Let us know @WiLD949! Photo: GettyImages.

By Angelina, @AngelinaOnAir Apr 25, 2021 End of an era! The Hilltop Mall in Richmond closed its doors for good yesterday (Friday, April 23). The mall has a new owner that has plans to redevelop the area in the near future. “At one time, Hilltop mall was a big generator of sales tax revenue for the city. It was a very busy place. And, along with most malls in America, it died out,” Mayor Tom Butt said.  Did you grow up going to Hilltop Mall? Let us know @WiLD949! Photo: GettyImages.

By Kathy Chouteau Prologis, a logistics company, announced that it closed on its acquisition of Richmond’s Hilltop Mall today. According to Gergana Pomerantz, senior manager, public relations, Americas at Prologis, the following statement addresses the company’s vision for the site:   “The acquisition of the Hilltop Mall marks the beginning of our efforts to pursue a mixed use development that includes residential, retail, and modern logistics facilities, which will spur further reinvest...

Struggling East Bay mall to become mixed-use site for housing, retail FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Richmond’s Hilltop Mall, shown in March 2020, has been sold and will be redeveloped as a multiuse site for housing, retail and a logistics center.Justin Sullivan / Getty Images 2020Show MoreShow Less 2of2 An old Hilltop Mall sign in Richmond. The struggling mall was purchased by Prologis.Scott Strazzante / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less The world’s largest industrial landlord has purchased strug...

Hilltop Mall is dead: Whats up next for the East Bay property? FacebookTwitterEmail The parking lot at Hilltop Mall sits empty on March 17, 2020 in Richmond, California. Seven San Francisco Bay Area counties have ordered residents to shelter in place in an effort to reduce social interaction and slow the spread of COVID-19. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Hilltop Mall in Richmond, Calif., is dead. The shopping palace — once home to a Macys, an ice-skating r...

By Kathy Chouteau A proposed plan by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to divert flights off existing paths in the Oakland hills to fly over Richmond, El Cerrito, Albany and Berkeley has been abandoned, much to the pleasure of locals who advocated against it. The news was announced by an FAA official Wed., April 21 at the Oakland Airport Community Noise Forum, according to reports by Richmond Mayor Tom Butt and Berkleyside. The FAA plan would have seen a westward shift of airplane fligh...

Emails Raise Questions About Chevron’s Bay Area Oil Spill Response Aaron Cantu, Capital & Main Capital & Main This article was produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main. It is co-published here with permission. The morning after a quarter-inch hole in a pipeline owned by Chevron leaked petroleum fluids into the San Francisco Bay on February 9, Richmond Mayor Tom Butt struck an optimistic tone about the incident at the oil giant’s refinery. “I think in the big pictu...

By Kathy Chouteau Richmond’s pirates have stolen the hearts of the masses, judging by their rave reviews and the long line of patrons waiting outside their door. Black Star Pirate BBQ, the city’s newest foodie sensation located at Point San Pablo Harbor, celebrated its grand opening in early October 2020 and has already garnered media accolades and a 4.5 star rating on Yelp during its short existence. As the Standard’s Mike Kinney first reported, Black Star is the brainchild of Tony Carr...

Biden Picks Openly Gay Former Richmond PD Chief to Run Customs and Immigration Known for toting a “Black Lives Matter” sign and being an openly gay and married police chief, former Richmond chief of police Chris Magnus has been nominated as Biden’s commissioner of Customs and Border Protection. “Openly gay police chief” is not a phrase that one is used to hearing much, but that phrase arrived in the Bay Area in 2006 when Fargo, North Dakota chief of police Chris Magnus took the same ...