Anchors in the center's first phase will include a 115,000-sf Home Depot store with a 30,000-sf garden center and a 55,000-sf Vons grocery store. In addition, Lewis plans to sign at least seven other anchors at the center, a 250,000-sf first phase that is slated to open in January. Lewis tentatively plans to have the balance of the center completed and open for business about a year after the first phase delivers.

The Eastvale center was designed by Nadel Architects of Los Angeles, with leasing handled by James Clarkson and Nelson Wheeler of Strategic Retail Advisors in Newport Beach. The shopping center is next to Homecoming at Eastvale, a 732-unit townhouse-style apartment development where some of the first tenants began moving in recently.

The Eastvale shopping center is one of half a dozen retail developments either under way or planned by Lewis in the Inland Empire. Its line-up includes Victoria Gardens, a 1.3-million-sf, open-air, super regional lifestyle and retail center in Rancho Cucamonga being developed in partnership with Cleveland-based Forest City Enterprises. Victoria Gardens is due to open in October 2004 will include a 20-acre site devoted to multifamily development. Lewis Apartment Communities plans a number of multifamily developments under the Homecoming brand as part of $600-million project roster to be built in California and Nevada over the next three years.