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Hawthorne city officials are fed up with the owners of long-vacant Hawthorne Mall and have obtained a permanent court injunction requiring them to either redevelop or demolish it by August 2026.

The sprawling mall, once the pride of the South Bay city in Los Angeles County, has been empty for two decades. It is so decrepit that it has served as a post-apocalyptic setting for music videos by stars such as Drake, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift.

Its derelict presence has long been a source of complaints among residents, and last week the city acted by securing the injunction. It follows a nuisance abatement action brought by the town “after years of inaction by the property’s owners, the Ch

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