Regency Centers Finishing $30-Mil Mall Makeover

El CERRITO, CA-Regency Centers Corp, a national owner, operator and developer of grocery-anchored shopping centers, is breathing life back into a 341,140 sf , 40-year-old mall in this bedroom community located north of Berkeley in San Francisco’s East Bay.

Regency is the leading national owner, operator, and developer focused on grocery-anchored, neighborhood retail centers. Regency’s total assets exceed $3 billion and include 260 retail properties totaling 27.9 million sf.

Zenaida Garvey, property administrator for Regency Centers and longtime employee of El Cerrito Plaza, says the center has undergone tremendous change to keep up with the growth of the city. Garvey, at the shopping center since 1981, says the renovations will once again turn El Cerrito Plaza into the downtown and heart of El Cerrito.