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First Macy’s Opening in Los Angeles Scheduled: The conversion of the Los Angeles-based Broadway Stores chain into Macy’s will begin at a April 29 ceremony at which the downtown Broadway Plaza shopping center will be renamed Macy’s Plaza. The Broadway store at the plaza will begin to operate as a Macy’s store after the ceremony. The remaining 47 stores in the Broadway chain--including the 25 locations in Southern California--will be converted to Macy’s by May 31. New York-based R.H. Macy & Co. and Southern California’s Bullock’s chain are owned by Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores. Federated will also begin to change its Bullock’s stores into Macy’s on April 29. The company plans to complete the Bullock’s conversions by May 1.