LOS ANGELES, CA, July 22, 2009
/24-7PressRelease/ -- Transfiguration Elementary School takes home the first place prize in Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza's (BHCP) "Shop To Help Your School" program. Transfiguration students and family members turned in the most receipts from shopping trips at BHCP, during a six month long competition among eight other area elementary schools enrolled in the BHCP Kids program, the mall's education and health initiative.
As the first place prize winners, Transfiguration was awarded a check for $2,500. Transfiguration plans to use the winnings toward renovating their library. In second place, St. Bernadette's Catholic School will be awarded $1,500; they will use this money for new teaching supplies. Tom Bradley Elementary School came into third place and will collect a check for $1000. The school plans to use the prize money from BHCP to purchase new projection equipment.
"In these tough economic times, Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza through the BHCP Kids program is always looking for different ways to partner with local schools," said Ben Richardson, General Manager of BHCP. "The 'Shop to Help Your School' program has been a big hit over the last three years, but the real proof of success is the fact that our schools have been able to use their winnings to improve things within the classroom."
Through the "Shop to Help Your School" program, Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza has awarded $16,000 to area schools in the past three years.
Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, located at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. and Crenshaw Boulevards is home of Macy's, Wal-Mart, Sears, Magic Johnson Theaters, TJ Maxx and over 115 stores and restaurants. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.crenshawplaza.com.
About Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza
Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, the oldest regional shopping center in America, opened in November 1947 in Los Angeles, California as the Broadway-Crenshaw Center with 550,000 square feet and 13 acres of parking. Back in 1947 the mall was anchored by a Broadway department store, Woolworth variety store, and Von's supermarket. In 1988 BHCP received a facelift increasing in size to 850,000 square feet.
The Festival Companies, which manages BHCP, is a full-service commercial real estate firm and a leading shopping center developer based in Los Angeles, California. Festival has an extensive track record in redevelopment that has spurred revitalization and economic development in many communities. It has developed retail projects in 14 states comprising of over 20 million square feet. For more information on The Festival Companies, please call (310) 665-9600 or visit the company's Web site at http://www.festivalcos.com.
About BHCP Kids
BHCP Kids is Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza's education and health initiative sponsoring over ten
events during the school year for our nine participating elementary schools. The program has donated
over $16,000 to local elementary schools through the Shop to Help Your School program, plus provided services such as free dental check-ups and free fingerprinting programs.
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