A huge Whole Foods Market and Barnes & Noble bookstore will be among the anchor tenants of the soon-to-be transformed Southglenn Mall in Centennial.

The three-decades-old shopping center at Arapahoe Road and South University Boulevard is scheduled to become The Streets at Southglenn, an upscale suburban city. Construction is expected to begin this year.

Most of the mall already has been razed.

Greenwood Village-based Alberta Development Partners LLC announced that American Screenworks, Best Buy and Dick's Sporting Goods also will be among the key outlets at Southglenn. They join Sears and Macy's, which remain open during the demolition of the other parts of the property.

"The Streets at SouthGlenn continues to attract the leading national and local retailers and restaurants, which will allow us to create a destination," Alberta Development's Don Provost said in a statement.

The roughly $360 million project will include 300 condominium units above shops and restaurants.

The development will replace an enclosed shopping center built in 1974 by longtime Denver mall developer Jordon Perlmutter & Co. By the time Southglenn closed last year, only about half its space was occupied.

Collectively, the tenants will take up 228,000 square feet in the new Streets development. The remaining available retail space is being negotiated, and national and local retailers and restaurants will be announced in the near future.

Alberta characterized the planned Whole Foods as the retailer's "Denver flagship location with more than 58,000 square feet."

The American Screenworks Cinema will be a 14-screen theater with stadium seating and expanded concessions offering food, beer and wine.

Barnes & Noble's store will be more than 37,000 square feet, including an expanded children's books section. It also will become the bookseller's flagship Denver outlet, Alberta said.

The Streets at SouthGlenn also will feature sidewalk cafés, gourmet bistros and women's and men's apparel retailers. The new retail center also will be home to the Commons, a one-city-block-long park.

New tenants at redeveloped mall

ANNOUNCED MONDAY

• American Screenworks Cinema: 14-screen theater with stadium seating

• Barnes & Noble: flagship store in Denver area with more than 37,000 square feet

• Best Buy: 31,000-square-foot store

• Dick's Sporting Goods: 50,000-square-foot store

• Whole Foods Market: flagship store in Denver area with more than 58,000 square feet

EXISTING TENANTS

• Macy's

• Sears

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