(Ian Ritter is national online editor for GlobeSt.com/RETAIL.)

LEHI, UT-Forest City Enterprises is planning a one-million-sf open-air center here modeled after Victoria Gardens, a project the Cleveland-based REIT opened in Rancho Cucamonga, CA last year. Company executives say they expect the Terrace at Traverse Mountain to cost $180 million to build with ground breaking in early 2008 and an opening in the spring of 2009.

The center, off Interstate 15, between Salt Lake City and Provo, is part of a four-million-sf Traverse Mountain master-planned community. Already near the site is a 150,000-sf Cabela's outdoor superstore.

Traverse Mountain will have two department stores, a movie theater and about 400,000 sf of restaurant and small-shop space. Forest City is also trying to secure plans to build a community arts center at the site, similar to the one at Victoria Gardens. Other anchors at that 1.2-million-sf center include J.C. Penney, Macy's and Robinsons-May.