Four Tenants Sign On at El Camino North

OCEANSIDE, CA-The owners of the El Camino North Shopping Center have announced the signing of four national chains to leases totaling 60,447 sf.

Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Michaels Arts & Crafts, Chili’s Grill & Bar and Macaroni Grill have signed leases with Center Trust Inc. of Manhattan Beach, whose officials said last month at a city Planning Commission meeting they would bring top-tier tenants to the site. But they said then that they wouldn’t sign leases until the commission decided whether to approve their plan to demolish the old center and rebuild it 1 1/2 times the size of the original. Commissioners unanimously approved the plan July 22.

The center, on the southwest corner of Vista Way and El Camino Real, is one of the city’s oldest, built in 1980. One of the buildings demolished was a multiplex Mann Theatre.