Robinsons-May to Anchor Chino Hills Center
Robinsons-May has signed a letter of intent to anchor The Shoppes at Chino Hills, a new open-air lifestyle shopping center under development in Southern California’s Inland Empire.
The retailer will occupy 140,000 square feet of the 1-million-square-foot mixed-use center, which includes a 550,000-square-foot mall, housing, a park and a civic center. The city of Chino Hills and the Opus West division of Minnesota real estate firm Opus Corp. are co-developing the project.
The store will be the seventh in the Inland Empire for Robinsons-May, which currently has 58 units in Southern California, Arizona and Nevada. The Shoppes will be located along Peyton Drive with frontage facing the Chino Valley Freeway (state Route 71). Chino Hills is about 40 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
The center is expected to break ground by the end of the year and open in mid-2007. With Robinsons-May making its entry official, Opus executives said they expect a number of other retailers to commit to the project over the next 90 days. A spokesperson for the developer said the impending merger with Federated Department stores should not affect the project.
—Robert McAllister
