Carmel Valley shoppers are being asked what stores they’d like in the expansion of Del Mar Highlands Town Center at the corner of Del Mar Heights Road and El Camino Real.
Donahue Schriber, the development firm, has launched this online survey.
Townsgate Drive. Image courtesy Donahue Schriber
The feedback will be used to help determine what services, amenities and retailers the community would like to see added to the 20-year-old shopping center, said a spokeswoman.
“The survey will help shape retail offerings at the shopping center and help us best serve our customers,” Schreiber said.
Survey responses will be collected until May 31.
Renovations starting with a new parking structure, theater expansion and KinderCare relocation will begin later this year.
Construction of the new retail will begin in late 2015 and be complete in mid‐2017, the developer said, adding: “The center will remain open during construction and Donahue Schriber will work diligently to minimize impacts to customers.”
Originally approved in the mid-1980s, plans for the Del Mar Highlands Town Center were to include 425,000 square feet of retail and a parking structure. The center currently consists of 283,000 square feet of retail.
Donahue Schriber’s new plans will add a parking structure and about 80,000 square feet of additional retail space including a three‐screen expansion of the center’s Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas and a new KinderCare building.
The three-level parking structure will be located along Townsgate Drive, expanding the existing parking field behind the center between Pell and Kelsford Places. Taking advantage of the natural land grade, the top level of the structure will be three feet below Townsgate Drive at the north end and only five feet above at the south end, allowing enhanced vehicular and pedestrian access to the center from the street.
Plans for the structure will include landscaped trellises, inviting walkways and three pedestrian entries. The parking structure will add about 600 new parking stalls.
