LOS ANGELES—Once a popular shopping mall in West Los Angeles after opening in 1985, the former Westside Pavilion was acquired in a $700 million deal for use as the UCLA Research Park, which will house an immunology center aimed at developing new treatments for cancer and other health ailments, said university officials on Jan. 3.
“We will remake the empty former mall into a state-of-the-art hub of research and innovation that will bring scholars from different higher education institutions, corporate partners, government agencies and startups together to explore new areas of inquiry and achieve breakthroughs that will serve our global society,” UCLA Chancellor Gene Block said in a statement.
