The city is set to explode with jobs, commerce and customers in just a few months, and the party that is bringing them in offered a sneak peek last week of the latest offerings.

The Beachcliff Market Square redevelopment, a 100,000 square-foot project off of Detroit Road, kicked off in 2005 with several tenants already on board.

Madison Marquette, an affiliate of international investment firm Capital Guidance Corporation, is creating the shopping center and announced even more retailers May 23.

San Francisco Oven, Francesca’s Collection, The Pub, Moe’s Southwest Grill, and Liberty Books and News have all signed on as tenants in the open-air shopping district.

According to spokeswoman Beth Kretschmar, two Ohio natives created the San Francisco Oven restaurant concept. The upscale eatery will feature brick oven made-to-order pizzas and hot and cold sandwiches. The nationally recognized chain also has locations across Ohio, including in Hudson, Medina, Willoughby and Columbus.

Francesca’s Collection will feature “fine apparel” and accessories, The Pub, an English-style eatery hails from the Cincinnati area, Moe’s Southwest Grill is also a nationally recognized restaurant chain with several locations throughout Ohio, Liberty Books and News, the market’s anchor store, is a “neighborhood bookstore with a great family atmosphere,” operated by the same family that started the Little Professor bookstore, Kretschmar said.

The stores will join Ann Taylor Loft, White House/Black Market, Chico’s, First Watch, Brown Aveda Institute and JoS. A. Bank.

Kory Koran, economic development director for Rocky River, said the project is “breathing new life” into the city’s eastern end.

“There were some vacancies,” he said of the old shopping center. “It was kind of passé.”

Westlake’s Crocker Park shopping center opened in 2004 and created another drain on business at Beachcliff.

Koran said he expects the rebuild will help all of the businesses in that area. An added bonus for area businesses is a “streetscape” project at portions of Lake and Detroit roads to add paved and tree-lined sidewalks and benches for foot traffic.

At Lake, the sidewalk project will connect the Rocky River Bridge to Battersea Boulevard, and a wall will be constructed near the off-ramp to Detroit where the Rocky River welcome sign is. It will resemble the old Beachcliff estates wall across from Bearden’s restaurant. Detroit’s sidewalk facelift, from Smith Court to the Rocky River Bridge, will include stamped concrete crosswalks, and a retaining wall near the Detroit Road Salmon Dave’s Pacific Grille will be covered with a stone façade.

Currently curbs, aprons and pavement on Detroit are also being replaced as part of a separate project.

“It’s going to be kind of a new downtown area,” Koran said.

Construction of the new Beachcliff facilities is slated to wrap up in August, and stores are scheduled to open in September. Madison Marquette plans a grand re-opening of the center for Nov. 17-19, while the first new store, JoS. A Banks, will hold its grand opening June 30.

Mayor William Knoble recently took a tour of a new garage added to the complex.

“I think it fits very, very nicely into the design of the whole area,” Knoble said.

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