And then there was more of it. "Four blocks to a multi-million dollar shopping center."

They don't say which direction!  Don't worry, they'll point you south to the El Cerrito Plaza, a typical low-slung open post-war mall.  Wikipedia:

El Cerrito Plaza originally opened in 1958 as a 350,000-square-foot regional mall, centered on a Capwell's department store . . . El Cerrito Plaza began to decline with the 1976 opening of Hilltop Mall.

In 2002, El Cerrito Plaza was partly demolished, remodeled, and reopened in its present form. The San Francisco Chronicle panned the newly reconstructed Plaza, calling it "in a nutshell, dysfunctional and dull" and an example that "[i]f a city doesn't insist on good development and then stick to its guns, things can go from bad to worse."