Editing Pasadena, California (section)

==Economy==
[[File:Union Street, Old Pasadena, Pasadena, California (14516704652).jpg|thumb|right|Shops in [[Old Pasadena]]]]
[[Old Town Pasadena]] spans 21 blocks downtown. It boasts shops and a wide variety of restaurants, nightclubs, outdoor cafés, pubs, and comedy clubs. "One Colorado" features renovated historic architecture that attracted the new retail stores and restaurants. This development filled vacant buildings and was the impetus of the revitalization of Old Town on [[Colorado Boulevard]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.onecolorado.com/facts.html |title=One Colorado |publisher=One Colorado |access-date=January 8, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120908215947/http://www.onecolorado.com/facts.html |archive-date=September 8, 2012 }}</ref>

[[Paseo Colorado]] is an open-air mall that covers three city blocks, anchored on the west end by upscale grocery store Gelson's (recently closed), on the east end by Macy's (also closed) and Regal Cinemas centers the middle portion of the mall. Another shopping district is located in the [[South Lake, Pasadena, California|South Lake Avenue]] neighborhood. On Lake Avenue, a [[Macy's]] department store and furniture gallery is in a registered California historical landmark. The building was originally designed and built as the fourth [[Bullock's]] department store in the mid-1950s (the last freestanding store they constructed).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cityofpasadena.net/planninganddevelopment/CentralArea/SouthLake.asp |title=South Lake Business District |publisher=www.cityofpasadena.net |date=September 28, 2010 |access-date=January 8, 2012 |archive-date=September 7, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907225501/http://cityofpasadena.net/planninganddevelopment/CentralArea/SouthLake.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The Rose Bowl Flea Market is a large [[swap meet]] that involves thousands of dealers and tens of thousands of visitors in and around the grounds of the Rose Bowl. The merchandise on display ranges from old world antiques to [[California pottery]] to vintage clothing. The flea market has been held every second Sunday of the month since 1967.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pasadena.com/biz/rosebowlfleamarket/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107045046/http://www.pasadena.com/biz/rosebowlfleamarket/ |title=Rose Bowl Flea Market |archive-date=January 7, 2010 }}</ref>

===Top employers===
According to the City's 2023 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 30, 2023 |title=City of Pasadena Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for fiscal year ended June 30, 2023 |url=https://www.cityofpasadena.net/finance/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/FY-2023-Annual-Comprehensive-Financial-Report.pdf?v=1736014278706 |access-date= |website=City of Pasadena }}</ref> the top employers in the city are:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Employer
! # of employees
|-
|1
|[[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]]
|6,709
|-
|2
|[[Kaiser Permanente]]
|6,525
|-
|3
|[[California Institute of Technology]]
|3,815
|-
|4
|[[Huntington Hospital|Huntington Memorial Hospital]]
|3,620
|-
|5
|[[Pasadena City College]]
|2,821
|-
|6
|[[Pasadena Unified School District]]
|2,478
|-
|7
|City of Pasadena
|2,335
|-
|8
|[[ArtCenter College of Design|Art Center College of Design]]
|1,060
|-
|9
|Hathaway-Sycamores
|600
|-
|10
|Pacific Clinics Administration
|272
|}

Other companies based in Pasadena include Idealab, [[Inter-Con Security]], [[Green Dot Corporation]], [[Tetra Tech]], [[Wesco Financial]], [[OpenX (company)|OpenX]], Stark Spirits Distillery, and [[Wetzel's Pretzels]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pasadena-Based International Brand Wetzel's Preztels Experiences Historic Growth – Pasadena Now |url=https://www.pasadenanow.com/main/pasadena-based-international-brand-wetzels-preztels-experiences-historic-growth |access-date=April 11, 2024 |website=www.pasadenanow.com }}</ref> The Los Angeles office of [[China Eastern Airlines]] is also located in Pasadena.<ref>"[http://hk.ceair.com/muovc/main/en_HK/Static_pages/ServiceLocation.html Service Location] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016021442/http://hk.ceair.com/muovc/main/en_HK/Static_pages/ServiceLocation.html |date=October 16, 2012 }}." [[China Eastern Airlines]]. Retrieved on October 20, 2012. "Los Angeles 55 South Lake Avenue, Suite 120, Passadena{{sic}}, CA 91101 U.S.A"</ref>