Terry Pierson / The Press-Enterprise
Z Gallerie is a business at The Promenade Shops at Dos Lagos that opened in October. It's part of a retail residential development.
The Promenade Shops at Dos Lagos, in Corona, opened in October, adding name brands such as Coach, Coldwater Creek and Bath & Body Works. Most of the outdoor center's 350,000-square-foot first phase opened, to be followed in 2008 by another 200,000 square feet of stores and restaurants.
The outdoor center, built amid a planned golf course and hundreds of homes, was a draw for retailers eager to capitalize on the pocketbooks of Inland newcomers, many of them Orange County transplants.
Twenty miles north, also just off Interstate 15, Victoria Gardens continued to expand. Among the stores added to the 2-year-old outdoor mall: Anthropologie, Crate & Barrel, Lucky Brand Jeans, See's Candies, West Elm and TGI Friday's.
More restaurants are expected in 2007, including Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar and Japanese restaurant Gyu-Kaku. Bass Pro Shops -- a giant sportswear store that at some locations includes a restaurant, rock climbing wall and golf driving range -- is scheduled for a June opening.
The Galleria at Tyler also grew, with the addition of a P.F. Chang's and Cheesecake Factory in 2006 and a Yard House, movie theater and more retail expected in 2007. Like the new stores and restaurants in Corona and Rancho Cucamonga, the Galleria's extra offerings are outdoors, highlighting a nationwide trend to put dining and shopping in pedestrian-friendly, main street-like settings.
The fate of stores left vacant after Federated Department Stores' 2005 purchase of Robinsons-May's parent company could be decided in 2007. Federated vacated spaces in five Inland malls, with no word yet on what will go in their place at the Galleria at Tyler, Inland Center or Montclair Plaza.
Malls in Temecula and Rancho Cucamonga are home to two Macy's stores and in Palm Desert, a former Macy's is to become a Nordstrom in 2009. The owners of Montclair Plaza and Inland Center purchased the empty stores but have yet to announce what will be done with them.
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