Editing Richmond, California (section)

===Post-war decline and rebound===
When the war ended the shipyard workers were no longer needed, and a decades-long population decline ensued. The census listed 99,545 residents in 1950. By 1960 much of the temporary housing built for the shipyard workers was torn down, and the population dropped to about 71,800.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/Richmond50.htm |title=City of Richmond, Contra Costa County |website=Bay Area Census |access-date=March 15, 2023}}</ref>

Just before his April 1968 [[assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.|assassination]], [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] had been working on plans for the [[Poor People's Campaign]], including a multi-city tour of the U.S. with a stop in Richmond.<ref name=KingIII>{{cite news |url=https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2007/05/01/son-of-king-shining-light-on-poor/ |title=Son of King shining light on poor |first=John |last=Geluardi |newspaper=[[East Bay Times]] |date=May 1, 2007 |access-date=May 25, 2007}}</ref> His son, [[Martin Luther King III]], completed the Poverty in America Tour in 2007, stopping in Richmond.<ref name=KingIII/> Unrest in late June 1968, sparked by the police shooting of a 15-year-old boy, damaged businesses in downtown along Macdonald Avenue.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19680627.1.1 |title=Richmond Has Second Night Of Disturbances |agency=AP |date=June 27, 1968 |newspaper=Santa Cruz Sentinel |access-date=March 15, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://richmondconfidential.org/2014/12/21/long-neglected-richmonds-downtown-is-being-slowly-reborn/ |title=Long neglected, Richmond's downtown is being slowly reborn |author=Schmidt-Hopper, Elly |date=December 21, 2014 |work=Richmond Confidential |access-date=March 15, 2023}}</ref> Most notably, the Travalini Furniture Store was destroyed by fire, which was assumed to be the result of the violent protests, but according to Fraser Felter, who was a reporter for the ''Richmond Independent'', police sources told him the fire was set to avoid a debt instead by destroying store records.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://richmondmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Winter10Final.pdf |title=The Travalini Furniture Store Fire: The Rest of the Story |author=Bastin, Donalsd |date=Winter 2010 |work=The Mirror |volume=58 |number=3 |publisher=The Richmond Museum Association |access-date=March 15, 2023}}</ref>

[[File:Hilltop Mall entrance IMG 4272 (32288340296).jpg|thumb|right|Entrance to [[Hilltop Horizon|Hilltop Mall]]]]
In the 1970s, the Hilltop area was developed in Richmond's northern suburbs, further depressing the downtown area as it drew retail clients and tenants away to the large indoor Hilltop Mall, which opened in 1976. The shopping mall, last named [[Hilltop Horizon]], was opened under [[Taubman Centers]], and has been sold since then to GM Pension Trust (1998), [[Simon Property Group]] (2007), [[JLL (company)|Jones Lang LaSalle]] (2012),<ref>{{cite news |url=https://richmondconfidential.org/2014/10/21/once-full-of-shoppers-and-hopes-hilltop-mall-faces-foreclosure-and-an-uncertain-future/|title=Once full of shoppers, and hopes, Hilltop Mall faces an uncertain future |author=Fei, Fan |date=October 21, 2014 |work=Richmond Confidential |access-date=March 15, 2023}}</ref> LBG Real Estate (2017), and [[Prologis]] (2021), who announced plans to close and demolish the building, reusing the land for a mixed-use development including residential, retail, and logistics facilities.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/2021-04-Richmond-mall-closed-Prologis-development-16124623.php |title=Hilltop Mall is dead: What's up next for the East Bay property? |author=Graff, Amy |date=April 23, 2021 |work=SFGate |access-date=March 15, 2023}}</ref>

In the late 1990s the [[Richmond Parkway (California)|Richmond Parkway]] was built along Richmond's western industrial and northwestern parkland, connecting Interstates 80 and 580. Construction of the Parkway, which follows the alignment of [[California State Route 93|SR&nbsp;93]] as proposed in 1958, started in 1990 and completed in 1996 at a cost of $193&nbsp;million. However, [[California Department of Transportation|Caltrans]] issued a letter in 1998 saying it would not take over responsibility for the road unless it was brought up to expressway standards; as it was cost-prohibitive to convert it, the road remains the responsibility of the city and county.{{cn|date=October 2024}}

In 2006, the city celebrated its centennial. This coincided with the repaving and streetscaping project of [[Macdonald Avenue]]. The city's old rundown commercial district along Macdonald has been designated the city's "Main Street District" by the state of California. This has led to funding of improvements in the form of state grants.<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://goliath.ecnext.com/premium/0199/0199-853061.html |title=TTCA Welcomes the City of Richmond Into the California Main Street Program. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071121045342/http://goliath.ecnext.com/premium/0199/0199-853061.html |archive-date=November 21, 2007 |publisher=Business Wire |date=December 13, 2007 |access-date=May 24, 2007}}</ref>