Side Entrance of the Quad
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| Location | Whittier, California, USA |
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| Coordinates | 33°57′39″N 118°1′56″W / 33.96083°N 118.03222°W / 33.96083; -118.03222 |
| Address | Cnr SEC Whittier Blvd. & Painter Avenue |
| Opening date | 1953 |
| Owner | Terramar Retail Centers |
| No. of anchor tenants | 7 |
| Total retail floor area | 432,596 sq ft |
| Website | The Quad at Whittier |
The Quad at Whittier is a shopping mallinWhittier, California.
It was built in 1953[1] and expanded in 1965 with the addition of a 3-story, 248,000-square-foot May Company California department store.[2] Arcadia-based Hinshaw's and Pasadena-based Nash's were other major tenants.[3]
After the center was destroyed by the 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake, its owners began renovating it as a strip mall.[4][5] Hinshaw's, the only store not affected by the earthquake, closed in 1992.[6]
The current shopping center includes Burlington Coat Factory (which opened in 1999[7] in the old Hinshaw's), Michael's, Old Navy, Rubi's, Ross Dress for Less, Staples, Rite Aid (formerly Thrifty Drugs), Vallarta Supermarkets (formerly Ralphs), Olive Garden, Chili's, and TJ Maxx.[8]
Just a few years after the earthquake, the remains of the popular May.Co. were transferred to Whittier Boulevard which runs on the north side, and Ocean View Avenune north-south, on the southeastern corner to become a popular medical plaza.
