Manhattan Village is a 300,000 square foot lifestyle center in Manhattan Beach, one of the highest-income beach cities in the Los Angeles South Bay. The property underwent a comprehensive $250 million renovation and expansion, adding an open-air lifestyle wing to the existing Macy’s-anchored structure and repositioning the center for the Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach household demographic. Macy’s remains the property’s department store foundation, having operated through the full renovation cycle, while the new open-air component introduces a premium dining, fitness, personal services, and selective lifestyle retail layer that the enclosed format alone did not serve.
The renovated format targets the affluent South Bay household for lifestyle occasion shopping, premium dining, and personal services alongside the department store comparison shopping that Macy’s provides. The beach-adjacent location and open-air component reward tenants with strong street presence and visual merchandising, consistent with the walkable, design-conscious neighborhood identity that Manhattan Beach maintains. The dining and services component serves both the daytime resident and the evening occasion customer, extending visit hours and supporting the property’s function as a full-day lifestyle destination rather than a single-purpose shopping trip.
Manhattan Village provides the premium lifestyle format serving Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach directly. The competitive context includes Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance for scale and comparison shopping, but Manhattan Village occupies a distinct category: the Macy’s anchor provides department store depth that pure lifestyle formats lack, while the open-air renovation delivers the curated environment that enclosed regionals cannot match. The combination positions the property as the resident-serving retail destination for one of the wealthiest coastal trade areas in Los Angeles County.
