Costa Mesa was incorporated ion June 16, 1953. The Segerstrom property that would eventually be developed into South Coast Plaza was annexed to Costa Mesa in 1957. By the 1960s the Segerstrom family was convinced that the newly incorporated City of Costa Mesa would be in need of increasing tax revenues in order to expand community development and services. With this in mind, the Segerstroms reasoned that the city would be supportive of a major Segerstrom retail development.
City officials and real estate experts advised against this reasoning, warning that such a development would never succeed because the proposed site it did not have enough of a residential population base within a five mile radius to support it. If a retail center was to be built in Costa Mesa, Henry Segerstrom knew that its success would ultimately depend on Interstate 405 and where it would be located as it passed through Orange County on its way to San Diego.
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Transportation
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