On December 11, 2008, the Planning Commission approved a Trader Joe’s Market and upgrades to the Golden Cove Center.  The approved project includes demolishing the existing Golden Lotus restaurant building and constructing a new 11,000 square foot Trader Joe’s grocery store building measuring 24’-6” in overall height.  Other aspects include the sale of beer and wine for off-site consumption; restriping and reconfiguring the existing parking lot to increase the overall number of parking spaces in the shopping center from 280 spaces to 296 spaces; providing two-way drive aisles with 90˚ parking stalls; a courtyard area along the front of an existing two-story building; closure of the enter-only driveway along Palos Verdes Drive West to provide additional common space to the area adjacent to Starbuck’s Coffee; relocation of the existing trash enclosure; a new pedestrian entry feature leading to the restaurants along the western portion of the site; a walk-up ATM; and a pedestrian access gap in the wall between the shopping center and the adjacent vacant property to the south. 

Construction on the project began in early summer 2009 in order to minimize conflicts between construction vehicles/activities and the existing Montessori school.  The Trader Joe’s market is expected to open in early 2010.

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- Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration