The retaining walls that motorists see from nearby Vista Boulevard are specially made European stones.
The walkways inside the shopping center will be created from tumbled European pavers.
Plaster will be created in a way that creates an aged Old-World appearance.
Mike Perry, whose company is developing D'Andrea Ranch Marketplace, loves the challenges.
Wall Street Property Co.
expects to complete the center at Vista Boulevard and North D'Andrea Ranch Parkway on schedule this spring.
Anchor tenants in the 116,000-square-foot center are Safeway and Longs Drug.
Perry, the managing general partner of Wall Street Property Co., said the company based on La Jolla, Calif., designed the center with a Northern Italian look to complement the nearby D'Andrea Ranch development.
The Tuscan style lots of hill stone in exteriors as well as tile roofs created a challenge for the designers and architects of D'Andrea Ranch Marketplace, Perry said last week.
But he noted that Wall Street Property tends to build projects for its own portfolio and doesn't look to sell them quickly.
A well-designed project, he said, is more likely to attract tenants, win community acceptance and build value for Wall Street Property.
Kelly Bland, a retail broker with Colliers International, said that less than 10,000 square feet of the center remains unleased.
Along with the two anchor stores, tenants include Starbuck's, McDonalds, Jalapeno Joe's, Supercuts, Hair It Is and More, Papa Murphy's Pizza, Subway, Bobby Page Cleaners and Bully's Sports Bar.
The Safeway store in the center will include a gas station.
Bland said the market for the center will extend far northward up Vista Boulevard and is expected to draw from the Red Hawk and Spanish Springs neighborhood.
The center, he noted, is on the righthand side of Vista Boulevard for motorists headed northward a location that strongly increases the likelihood that it will be used by shoppers heading home.
