Twin sisters Celina and Carolyn Nguyen, 24, of Santa Ana, perform underneath the dinosaur topiaries on the Third Street Promenade on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014. (Patrick T. Fallon / For the Times) 2 / 4 ...

Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade once hosted with multitudes of shoppers, people watchers and patrons of street performers a couple of blocks from the beach. Though an estimated 10 million ...

DOWNTOWN — It’s a long-time fixture on the Third Street Promenade, a crowd-drawing line-up of diverse entertainment acts, from crooners to break-dancers to acrobats, all accessible over three ...

DOWNTOWN — The Santa Monica Pier isn’t the only local icon to celebrate a landmark anniversary recently. A week after the world-famous pier turned 100, the Third Street Promenade marked its ...

Wow. We don't dislike the promenade. ... We just don't get why it is so loved by visitors. As time has passed, 3rd street has found itself with fewer and fewer unique ...

After it opened in 1989, Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade became one of the most popular shopping destinations in the world. The three-block stretch was closed to cars, and visitors flocked to ...

Now, in 2019, enter the Third Street Promenade, 3.0. Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. conducted a survey with Gehl, an urban research center, to determine why foot traffic in the district seems to peak ...

Santa Monica’s once-bustling Third Street Promenade is dotted with empty storefronts. An indoor pickleball club could point to creative ways for filling them. Sept. 10, 2023 ...

“The Third Street Promenade is really the heart of our downtown,” said Andrew Thomas, chief executive of Downtown Santa Monica Inc., a nonprofit committed to upkeeping and bettering its city.