{"id":212566,"date":"2026-03-10T03:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/212566\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T03:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:16:06","slug":"construction-begins-on-city-lights-at-former-east-hills-mall-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/212566\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction begins on City Lights at former East Hills Mall site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Construction is now underway on City Lights, a 350,000-square-foot open-air shopping center planned for the former East Hills Mall site in Northeast Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>Developers announced Monday that ground has been broken on the project at 3000 Mall View Road. The center is scheduled to open in the spring of 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Confirmed tenants include Boot Barn, Sprouts, Ross, Ulta, Skechers, Marshalls, Burlington, PetSmart, Hobby Lobby, Bath &amp; Body Works, Tilly&#8217;s and Five Below.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Construction is now underway on City Lights, a 350,000-square-foot open-air shopping center planned for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,152,97671,97672,162,97673],"class_list":["post-212566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-city-lights-bakersfield","tag-east-hills-mall-redevelopment","tag-kern-county-news","tag-northeast-bakersfield-retail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}