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Safeway store was built behind the original Safeway store. In the mid-1970s, a movie theater called Cole Square Cinemas was built on the corner of Converse Avenue and E Pershing Blvd, featuring two screens. A restaurant was built just north of the new Safeway building in 1976, most recently known as Crossroads. The newly built Safeway building received an expansion to the north in the late 1970s, along with the addition of a mezzanine on the front of the building. Around the turn of the 1980s, an additional screen was added to the south edge of the movie theater.
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Shopping Center with plans to build a new store and renovate the property starting in 2014. This would be the third time a brand new Safeway store would be built on the land except that it never happened. In 2015, the merger
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