California Gold — the development firm behind the proposed Marketplace at Main on the southwest corner of Main Street and Atherton Drive — is ready to break ground.
Representatives told the Manteca City Council Tuesday work will start in the coming weeks on the center that has secured a major supermarket as one of its main anchor tenants.
California Gold is one of three developers with projects on the intersection that have agreed to be part of an area of benefit that will allow South Main from the 120 Bypass to Woodward Avenue be widened to six lanes all at once instead of a piecemeal fashion as each property along the stretch of the road develops.
Meanwhile, the city is working with developers obligated to install traffic signals at Main Street and Woodward Avenue to do that work concurrently.
“The idea is it will seem like one project to minimize disruption,” Mayor Gary Singh said.
The shopping center was first approved in 2020.
The space for the supermarket is 40,000 square feet.
The junior anchor building is larger at 45,000 square feet.
The 18.4 acre Marketplace at Main Street project also has 25,000 square feet in additional retail and dining space.
It includes three freestanding fast food-style restaurants with drive-thru lanes, a car wash, and two separate areas for small retail stores.
If all goes according to plan, construction could be underway on two new supermarkets before the end of the year.
The other is also located on Atherton Drive two miles to the west in the Manteca Crossing development on the southwest corner of Atherton and Airport Way where Manteca’s second Chick-Fil-A recently opened.
The market at that location will be the city’s second Food-4-Less location.
To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com