page_title: Palos Verdes Peninsula
section_title: Commerce
hierarchical_section_title: Palos Verdes Peninsula / Commerce
caption_attribution_description: English: Malaga Cove Plaza — in Palos Verdes Estates. On the Palos Verdes Peninsula, Southern California. Photo by gyrofrog, July 1991.
context_page_description: The Palos Verdes Peninsula is a landform and a geographic sub-region of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, within southwestern Los Angeles County in the U.S. state of California. Located in the South Bay region, the peninsula contains a group of affluent cities in the Palos Verdes Hills, including Palos Verdes Estates, Rancho Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills and Rolling Hills Estates. The South Bay city of Torrance borders the peninsula on the north, the Pacific Ocean is on the west and south, and the Port of Los Angeles is east. As of the 2010 Census, the population of the Palos Verdes Peninsula is 65,008.
  The hill cities on the peninsula are known for dramatic ocean and city views, distinguished schools, extensive horse trails,
  and high value homes.
context_section_description: Areas of commerce include historic Mediterranean Revival style Malaga Cove Plaza and the Promenade on the Peninsula. Smaller shopping centers include the Peninsula Center, Lunada Bay Plaza, and Golden Cove Plaza.
  The largest peninsula commercial district is in Rolling Hills Estates, with many shopping centers including The Promenade on the Peninsula with a megaplex movie theater and an ice rink.
  The Palos Verdes area has ocean views, coastline views and city light views.
  The Peninsula is home to the Promenade on the Peninsula mall, originally an enclosed regional mall with two department store anchors, May Company California and Bullocks Wilshire, as well as the Peninsula Center, which originally had a Buffums department store.
caption: The historic Mediterranean Revival style Malaga Cove Plaza, in Palos Verdes Estates
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