LAGUNA HILLS, CA-The Hodgdon Group has started construction on the renovation and expansion of a former Circuit City building to make way for a 51,000-square-foot retail building to include an Ashley Furniture HomeStore and a 4,000-square-foot Chick-fil-A restaurant with drive-through on an outparcel. Hodgdon Group is serving as the fee developer, contractor and master leasing broker for the redevelopment project, which is at 24001 El Toro Rd.

Hodgdon Group also negotiated the site acquisition for the project, which it describes as among the larger retail redevelopment projects in Orange County. It is expected to be completed in March 2012.

"To make sure we had the absolute best leasing team, the Hodgdon Group partnered with Scott Kaplan of CBRE national retail practice and local market experts Tim and Justin McMahon of CBRE's Newport Beach office," said Aaron Hodgdon, president of the Hodgdon Group. John Rootlieb of Main & Main of Santa Monica represented Chick-fil-A.