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Monday, March 3, 2025

Revamped Broxton Plaza

From the UCLA Newsroom: On Saturday, Feb. 22, hundreds of Bruins, local business owners, policymakers, and residents and their families gathered for a street party and ribbon-cutting ceremony trumpeting the opening of Broxton Plaza, the 14,000-square-foot, car-free commercial stretch in the heart of the neighborhood that features al fresco dining, live music, movies, street markets and other events.

During an afternoon of speeches and performances by the UCLA Marching Band and Spirit Squad, guests posed for selfies with Joe and Josie Bruin and sampled fare and wares from Broxton Plaza restaurants and shops while children played games, roller-skated, painted pottery and zipped up and down the street on scooters...

“Community building is more important than ever after the fires,” said [LA City councilmember Katy] Yaroslavsky, whose city council district includes Westwood. She called Broxton Plaza “a tangible hint of what’s to come” for the neighborhood as Westwood and UCLA prepare to welcome the Metro Purple line extension and the 2028 Olympic Village...

Full news release at https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ucla-brings-bruin-spirit-to-opening-of-westwood-broxton-plaza.

Note: This still leaves Westwood Blvd. with its vacancies. And, at the northern end of Broxton Plaza, the fate of one of the two movie theaters is uncertain.

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