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VISALIA, CA-Kornwasser Shopping Center Properties of Phoenix plans a $25 million, 203,000-sf community shopping center anchored by a WinCo Foods supermarket on a 24-acre site that the developer acquired recently. Kornwasser has already broken ground on the project, which is at the southwest corner of Caldwell Avenue and Demaree Street.

The project will be called Visalia Pavilion and the WinCo will be the first in the Visalia area for the Boise, ID-based grocery chain. WinCo is an employee-owned company that competes against warehouse stores on price but does not require membership and is open 24 hours a day. It has been expanding in California, having opened its first Southern California store in Temecula in 2004.

Other tenants at Visalia Pavilion will include Starbucks, Subway, Sonic, Great Clips and a mix of national retailers, restaurants and local businesses, according to Gordon Keig, VP of Kornwasser. The company expects to have the center ready to open in the fourth quarter.

The shopping center was designed by Perkowitz+Ruth Architects, with Fresno-based Quiring General as general contractor. Leasing agents are John Sechser, Ted Fellner and Brian Mirkovich of Colliers International.

Kornwasser is a 28-year-old firm that has developed more than 60 power and community shopping centers throughout the US. It is under way on a number of additional centers in California, Arizona and New Mexico.

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Phoenix Developer Plans $25M, 203,000-SF Community Center

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