The Grove

This guide to The Grove in Los Angeles opens with Rick Caruso, whose father once swept floors at the historic Farmers Market next door, deciding decades later to build a retail district beside it that would feel like it had always belonged. It traces the lengths he went to for that illusion, borrowing the streets of Charleston and Savannah for his design and stripping a real 1950s Boston streetcar down to its undercarriage to build The Grove's trolley. Listen for its bell and watch the fountain choreograph water to music on the hour as you walk Main Street.