The development site is near the I-10 Freeway, at the southeast corner of Sunrise Way and Vista Chino Drive, where the existing 87,400-sf Palm Springs Marketplace neighborhood center has stood since 1994. The existing center is anchored by Stater Bros. supermarket, Hollywood Video and a McDonald's restaurant.

Phase II, which will be built immediately adjacent the existing center, will consist of 62,000 sf and will be anchored by a variety of neighborhood retail uses to meet the demand of the surrounding growing community, says George Arce Jr., president of Centers Dynamic. The family trust, which owns the parcel adjacent to the Palm Springs Marketplace, has been a client of Centers Dynamic since 1990 and had approached Centers Dynamic's brokerage company to sell the land, Arce says. Rather than sell the property, Arce explains, Centers Dynamic and the trust decided they could better capitalize on the prime location of the site by developing it. He says the residential growth in the area has increased sufficiently to support more retail services, explaining that more than 77,000 people with household incomes in excess of $57,000 live within the shopping center's trade area.

The 62,000 sf that will be developed for Phase II, will include inline shop space and two pads available with drive-through approvals. The developers expect to break ground by summer 2004 and open in the fall of 2004. The architect is Alan Sanborn of Sanbron and Associates Architects. David Catlin of CB Richard Ellis Retail Services in Ontario is handling the marketing and leasing of the project.