"City Center is not your typical Bay Area mall. At night, the modern glass and steel structure in the Tri-Valley surburb of San Ramon looks like it's glowing from within. Designed by world-famous architect Renzo Piano, best known around here for San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences, the outdoor shopping and dining complex within the corporate park and residential community of Bishop Ranch cost $300 million to build and is relatively new."
"In less than eight years, City Center has become yet another Bay Area retail destination to draw A-list chefs and hallmark mini chains from San Francisco - in particular, Italian eatery Delarosa, Mediterranean hot spot Alora, salad stalwart Mixt and anchor tenant the Slanted Door. Retail tenants include an Equinox fitness, 10-theater cineplex the Lot (with its own restaurant) and about 30 boutiques, from Anthropologie and Williams Sonoma to luxury jeweler Heller."
"Now, another wave of eateries is descending on the four-block, 300,000-square-foot center: Oakland's Rico Rico Taco and Palo Alto Turkish sensation Meyhouse are planning their second locations inside City Center. San Francisco-born smoothie empire Palmetto Superfoods will unveil a shop by early next year after cutting ribbons a block from Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills this month (it is also slated to open an outpost in SF's Stonestown Galleria by year's end)."
City Center in San Ramon is a four-block, 300,000-square-foot outdoor shopping and dining complex designed by Renzo Piano and opened in 2018. The development cost $300 million and sits within the Bishop Ranch corporate park and residential community. The center attracted A-list chefs and hallmark San Francisco mini-chains, including Delarosa, Alora, Mixt and anchor tenant the Slanted Door, alongside retail tenants like Equinox, the Lot cineplex, Anthropologie, Williams Sonoma and jeweler Heller. New entrants include Rico Rico Taco, Meyhouse and Palmetto Superfoods, which plans a shop by early next year. The center draws workers and residents with relative affordability and strong schools.
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