On July 23rd, the RSMA Board and concerned neighbors met with the Regency Management to hear a presentation about our shopping center, the Fresh & Easy space, and future changes. RSMA neighbors listened, had suggestions and voice concerns about noise, crime, and construction impacts on their homes. Please see the recap below:
- Regency is pushing for a grocery store, or drug store as a distant second, but nowhere near a confirmed tenet.
- Could rework the existing tenants to create more square footage for grocery space.
- They are looking at redoing the food court area within the next year.
- Potentially giving the whole center a face lift within the next 5 years.
- The current tenants all do good business, so no anticipated departures.
- Regency is exploring alternate grocery store ideas: Market Hall concept, Fish monger, Produce, etc.
- Prospective Tenants for the F&E space and response by Regency
Fresh & Easy will be paying rent until the end of their lease. Potentially till the end of September. - Walmart Express – rather have the Rite Aid.
- Rite Aid – Interested, but seeing how grocer turns out first.
- Restaurant – Prefer a grocer, but open to it.
- Hardware – Would take business from Encina Grande.
- Auto Parts – Not happening.
- Diablo Foods – They have not spoken, not likely but open to it.
- Lunardi’s – They have spoken, no word.
- New Leaf – They have spoken, no word.
- Sprouts – Not interested.
- (as suggested/asked about by RSM neighbors)Trader Joe’s – Not interested.
- Neighborhood Requests:
- Request to limit construction hours for stores that are remodeling.
- Ask Kinders and Peets employees to not smoke behind their respective stores (Potential fire hazard.)
- Change garage collection hours.
- Encina Grande:
- Current phase should be done in the fall.
- Safeway lease up at the end of September.
- Will begin Whole Foods phase once Safeway is out.
- Business is doing well for current tenants, despite construction.
- RSMA to do’s:
- Meeting with the City Manager – ideas for agenda?
- Current crime issues in RSM.
- Code violations by the shopping center.
- Update on intersection rebuild.