The Central City Plaza was the first Black shopping center in Milwaukee, designed by Wisconsin's first Black licensed architect, Alonzo Robinson.

Wisconsin's first licensed Black architect, Alonzo Robinson, opened the center in 1973 when Milwaukee's racism ran rampant.

After Surrey RCMP received a report about a robbery at the Chatr Mobile store in Surrey’s Central City Shopping Centre on October 27, police made an appeal for help from the public for information.