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Richmond sued over plan to develop site laden with pollutants FacebookTwitterEmail 1of4 Sherry Padgett, a member of the Richmond Shoreline Alliance, visits the site of a proposed residential development project in Richmond last month. Padgett has fought for a thorough cleanup of the soil since she was diagnosed with cancers in her ribs and thyroid in 2003 and 2004. The cancers are now in remission.Paul Chinn / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of4 A lawsuit has been filed over the plan to develop the 86-acre Zeneca site in south Richmond because of the pollutants there.Paul Kuroda / Special to...

Hilltop Mall situation grows worse as Macy's closes permanently FacebookTwitterEmail Richmond's Hilltop Mall, already a ghost town, is about to get even emptier. Mayor Tom Butt announced Tuesday that Macy's will be closing permanently. It's part of a 45-store closure across the nation for the struggling department store chain. Butt shared part of the letter the city and county received from Macy's, which indicated the store will permanently shutter sometime between March 14-27. Its 133 employees will be laid off, although the company said it would help transfer some employees to other Bay Are...

Hilltop Mall is located at 2200 Hilltop Mall Road in Richmond, Calif. Macy’s at Hilltop Mall will permanently close and 133 employees will be laid off unless some transfer to other stores, Richmond Mayor Tom Butt announced in his e-forum newsletter. The mayor shared an email sent today from a Macy’s executive announcing the store’s closure. The email, sent to both city and county officials, notes that job eliminations are expected to occur between March 14 and March 27.  Macy’s is “shuttering 45 more locations this year, as part of its 3-year closure plan,” according to CNBC. It�...

'The mall is dead': Macy's to close store at Hilltop in Richmond FacebookTwitterEmail Macy’s plans to close its store at Hilltop Mall in Richmond.Dreamstime / TNS After 44 years, Macy’s is closing its store at Hilltop mall in Richmond, leaving the mall with one major retail tenant — Walmart — and leading the mayor to declare, “The mall is dead.” Macy’s said Tuesday it would close 45 stores by this summer, part of a previously outlined strategy to shutter 125 locations and cut about 2,000 corporate jobs across the country. The Hilltop store is the only Bay Area Macy’s in the cl...

Many in Richmond blame the decision to approve the mall, which opened in September 1976 on land owned by the Chevron refinery at the city's northern end for the decline of downtown, including the relocation of Macy's and JC Penney, which were joined at the new center by an Emporium-Capwell store.  "A feasibility study showed that a more urban style mall could succeed in downtown, but the City Council rejected that economic development strategy in favor of Chevron and Hilltop," Butt wrote in an email message about the closure.  Hilltop nonetheless thrived for many years, but was hurt as larg...