The new Costco Wholesale store opened at Lakewood Center in the first quarter of 2009. Lakewood Business Forecast luncheon attendees cheered when they heard the news at their annual annual business forecast luncheon hosted by the Greater Lakewood Chamber of Commerce and the Lakewood Redevelopment Agency.

Jack Gonsalves, director of the Lakewood Community Development Department, noted that the new 160,000-square-foot Costco brings the convenience of shopping at the nation's most successful membership store to one of the largest shopping centers in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. “Costco’s move to a traditional mall is a first in Southern California,” Click for related information on Costco and photo gallery