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Officials with the Westfield Valencia Town Center announced Monday that they are no longer moving forward with the construction of a brand new Costco in Valencia.
The much anticipated construction of a brand new Costco, as part of the Patios Connection Development Project, is no longer coming to the Valencia Town Center, in a statement released Monday by Westfield officials.
“Like so many businesses, 2020 was a year like no other in Westfield’s history,” said a Westfield spokesperson. “Westfield moved quickly to adapt to the realities created by a global pandemic and the accelerated consumer trends for the retail industry.”
While development plans for the Patios Connection Plan at the Valencia Town Center, which included a Costco, have come to a close, officials with Westfield believe that their “commitment to the Valencia Town Center continues.”
Part of Westfield’s continued evolution for the Valencia Town Center is set to actively involve the City of Santa Clarita to continue their efforts on the creation of a Specific Plan for the City Center area, officials said.
This area is set to have a focus on creating new mixed-use development opportunities for Santa Clarita residents.
“We believe an investment in time and resources towards the City Center Specific Plan process will help provide a forward-thinking and long-term vision that will continue to help elevate and diversify the Valencia Town Center,” Westfield officials said.
Westfield is reportedly committed to continue partnering with the City on a new Specific Plan process to work towards the future growth and evolution of Santa Clarita.
Westfield anticipates that the City’s new Specific Plan process may begin as early as summer 2021.
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What a shame! The only good thing coming to our mall is costco!please reconsider
I think it’s a good thing honestly. Imagine the traffic, and worse with the congestion of how many accidents there will be to to further impede on traffic. Added to the fact that it will be in the center of our city. I’m sure everyone, including me is heartbroken we won’t have one, but I much rather get from point A to point B safely and before my Ice Cream melts.
Thank gosh! Imagine the traffic there would be! I already wait 10mins at the light in Valencia! Stop building houses!
Now THAT is the right idea! Why don’t we cancel one of the mega-developments and put a new Costco there instead? The one behind Magic Mountain comes to mind.
The City Council keeps saying they want 25,000 new residents of SC in the next few years. Why? How does that possibly benefit the people already living here? If anybody _wants_ overcrowding, they can move to the SFV or LA. We all came here to get away from the metropolis.
Good idea TAP, we need a Costco in the West SCV!! In view of the horrible, life threatening, world destroying man made drought caused by Global Warming and never before Climate change, after waiting in traffic one hour from the 5/170/405 fwys. to the126, we could buy more cases of water to combat the man made/ignored drought! Why didn’t the caveman build more reservoirs/canals during the melting of the ice age that occurred before industrialization?!
An entire article about Costco…and not a single word from Costco. Typical “reporting” by this joke of a website.
And yet you keep coming to this website!!
Why would costco need a statement? It’s Westfields decision to pull out of the deal, not costco’s.
Absolutely the best news I’ve heard in SCV in a long time!!
TAP has put SCV into perspective. City Council doesnt care about traffic, over crowding and the fact the mountains are razed in a day where it took mega years to create. Thanks to this City Council, SCV is becoming the 2nd SFV. Protecting ‘natural’ open space? What a joke! Im appaled with 126 development. Down right ugly! Keep killing mountains. Money is the forefront of these housing developments. Destroying what used to identify SCV, the hills and mountains within.
Not too smart of Westfield to pull out of the deal at a time when large retail space is almost impossible to rent. The site will probably sit empty for years to come.