Porter Ranch Towne Center

After riding out a sluggish economy and enduring community opposition, the developer of Porter Ranch Towne Center is getting ready to open its new retail complex to shoppers, but without the swanky outlets that neighbors had once hoped for. Best Buy is set to open Friday, followed by Toys R Us on Saturday at the shopping center tucked in the foothills of the Santa Susana Mountains in the northwest San Fernando Valley.

After riding out a sluggish economy and enduring community opposition, the developer of Porter Ranch Towne Center is getting ready to open its new retail complex to shoppers, but without the swanky outlets that neighbors had once hoped for. Best Buy is set to open Friday, followed by Toys R Us on Saturday at the shopping center tucked in the foothills of the Santa Susana Mountains in the northwest San Fernando Valley.

Billed seven years ago as one of the largest residential and retail development projects in the city, the Porter Ranch project is finally underway after long delays. In April, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved a scaled-down version of the planned community. The first phase of the massive development project is the Porter Ranch Towne Center, a 660,000 square-foot retail shopping center north of the Reagan Freeway on Rinaldi Street between Corbin Avenue and Winnetka Avenue.

Love, it is said, makes the world go round. But something less than love has its place, too. Does not the yin of happy contentment need the yang of sullen anger? Consider the feelings in the foothills of the Santa Susana Mountains, north of the Ronald Reagan Freeway, where some folks are mad as hell, et cetera. Time was when we worried about the Commies. Now in the gated communities of Porter Ranch, people are fretting and fuming about the capitalists.