The Beverly center build in 1981 was designed to b...

The Beverly center build in 1981 was designed to be the modern day high fashion place to shop, dine and see exculsive new theatrical film releases. It was built at a time indoor malls were popular. That has dramatically changed with competing shopping entertainment complexes like the Grove the many times changing Century City mall which has recently also gone through a multi million dollar upgrade. The Beverly center once a mecca for the place be see and be seen has a hard time staying fresh with the competing shopping bonanzas but still hold up. For awhile the giant building began looking more like a prison when they installed fencing around the parking structure. From a distance if you didn't know better resembled a correction facility or prison. A major paint job with new resturants on the outside the giant indoor mall has softened up it's appearance greatly.