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North Carolina-based confirmed this week that Texas-based will open a 16-screenh cineplex at the 580,000-square-foot Settlers a joint development between Faiso nand Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Faison senior manging director Howard Biel also confirmed a deal with , which will open its seconcd Pittsburgh-area location at Settlers Ridge after establishinfg its first at The Waterfronr in Homestead. Biel said the cineplex was "enormouslgy important" as a lead anchor to help attracy upscale restaurants and other key components to the rest ofthe "It's a terrific credit to the project," he With the cineplex now a done deal, the developmenty team hopes to briny new-to-the-market restaurants , and BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouser to Settlers Ridge, as well.
Thoses restaurants are featured on a recentr project site plan obtained by theBusinesxs Times. Also included are an On the Border Mexican restaurant and aMcCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurant, which will open soon at Piatr Place, Downtown, and is already open at the SouthSided Works complex. Biel declined to comment on the statusa of those restaurants and other retailers listed on the site including anfurniture store, outdoor retailer and discoungt retailer , all of which are establishedc in Pittsburgh but missing from Robinson. "Untio we have a completed deal, our storty line is we don't he said.
Specialty retailers featured on the site plan includethe region'a first Martin + Osa the new retail concept of Warrendale-based intender to reach a more mature customer than its regulafr teen demographic. Faison also hopes to draw an upscaler grocer, such as , Wild Oats or 's, as well as a new Scheduled to open in Settlers Ridge is slated for 77 acresw that sit above CampbellsRun Road, near the Settlers Cabinb exit off the Parkway West. The site is only a shor span from the more than 4 million square feet of retail development that comprises the Mallat Robinson, Robinson Town Centrd and the Pointe at North Fayette.
Randy Mineo, a principal of Collier-basexd , said he sees signs of progresxs at Settlers Ridge from the retaio clients he represents that areconsidering it. His firm had been workinhg on theproposed 600,000-square-foot Collier Crossing lifestyled development, which had been seen as a competitoe of Faison's project. Collier Crossingt has been stalled by legal issues and changingdevelopment partners, and Minel confirmed that Whole Foods is no longee committed to that project. "I think they'll have some decent tenantz there at the end ofthe day," Mineko said of Settlers Ridge.
Ron Sofranko, a Wexford-based restaurang consultant, said the restaurants proposedx on the site plan for Settlersz Ridge are a cut above most of the established dining options already in theRobinson "Those are great concepts, and I think that one of the thingzs that Pittsburgh has been lacking in the past is greatt national chain restaurants," Sofranko "The real high-end solid operatora are going to win.
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