SCOTTSDALE – Developers of the Scottsdale Quarter, opening in the spring, have lined up restaurants, lounges, fashion and furnishings retailers, plus a gourmet grocery and a reserved-seat movie theater.
Glimcher Realty Trust announced Tuesday that it has signed two home furnishings stores, Williams-Sonoma and West Elm, and the Oakville Grocery, a fixture in California’s Napa Valley for more than a century.
H&M, a trendy Swedish fashion retailer, is also among the shops set to open in the first phase.
The $270 million Scottsdale Quarter is an outdoor shopping district similar to Kierland Commons, its neighbor on the Phoenix side of Scottsdale Road at Greenway Parkway.
Shops and restaurants will line narrow streets with buildings rising to four stories. A plaza studded with palm trees will include a water feature and a sculpture replicating the McDowell Mountains.
Tutta La Casa, the latest Mediterranean food concept from Sam Fox, will have outdoor dining on the plaza.
Parking will be in two 1,500-space garages flanking the restaurants and shops.
“We’re going for an urban, city-type feel,” said Glimcher, adding that it will be more like New York’s Soho neighborhood or Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles rather than Rodeo Drive luxury.
“We don’t want to be Prada and Gucci and Louis Vuitton,” he said.
Scottsdale Quarter retailers will emphasize “the great denim, purses and sunglasses” that are such a part of the Scottsdale lifestyle, Glimcher said.
A second phase of Scottsdale Quarter, opening in March 2010, will include Gold Class Cinema. It will show films in a theater with 40 reclining leather seats and premium food and wine options, Glimcher said.
“For people who don’t have time for dinner and a movie they can do both,” he added.
Glimcher has also lined up an iconic national retailer that it has not identified.
The Columbus, Ohio-based company is developing the 28-acre Scottsdale Quarter with Vanguard City Home and the Wolff Co.
It will include about 273,000 square feet of retail, 102,000 square feet of restaurants and 200,000 square feet of offices.
A hotel and condominiums are planned on the eastern side of the property, which still has the Dial Corp. research center on it.
That building will be torn down next year after Dial moves to its new headquarters at Loop 101 and Scottsdale Road.
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