At Rosedale, Becker is rearranging the…
At Rosedale, Becker is rearranging the furniture, along with other changes
Digby's restaurant and bar, touting specialty pizza and burgers with a twist, opened in the old California Pizza Kitchen spot at Rosedale Center. (Courtesy photo)
By Pioneer Press | news@pioneerpress.com
PUBLISHED: April 8, 2014 at 11:01 p.m. | UPDATED: November 3, 2015 at 7:50 a.m.
A shuffle is underway at Rosedale Center, where Becker Furniture is upgrading to larger digs, a local restaurant has opened near the movie theaters and smaller shops are on the move.
Digby's restaurant and bar, touting specialty pizza and burgers with a twist, has opened in the old California Pizza Kitchen spot. The remodeled space now includes garage doors that open in nice weather, seating for 150 and a menu that mixes old favorites and the more daring.
Digby's menu is the creation of chef Jeff Anderson, who opened the Eat, Shop Kitchen & Bar restaurant in Plymouth in 2012.
Other changes are still in motion at the Roseville mall. Becker's Furniture World is upgrading from its current location to a new and larger permanent space in the J.C. Penney wing, said Liz Ostrander, a Rosedale spokeswoman.
Becker's current location is about 30,000 square feet, Ostrander said. Its new site — about 38,000 square feet in all — will include a two-floor furniture store and with a separate mattress shop across the J.C. Penney courtyard. And unlike Becker's existing location at Rosedale, the new location will be permanent.
Construction for the move is already underway, with the grand opening in "probably late summer, early fall," Ostrander said. "It's a big project."
The size of Becker Furniture's new space is putting some other tenants in motion.
Len is in the process of relocating from its lower-level spot to a second-floor spot on Herberger's Lane, across from Forever 21, Ostrander said. Payless Shoes also has relocated to Herberger's Lane. Creative Hair is moving, as well.
Ostrander said Rosedale has nothing to announce for the current Becker's space, which earlier housed a two-story Border's bookstore, and before that department stores.
And as usual for a major mall, tenants are regularly coming and going. Teen clothing store Hollister closed up shop in January, and its prime spot will be taken over by the Buckle, which is moving within Rosedale to the larger space in late spring or early summer, Ostrander said.
The Frederick's of Hollywood store is gone. But Rosedale is preparing room for Athleta, a women's active-wear store set to open in late spring near Macy's.
Rosedale Center remains the east metro's dominant shopping center, drawing some 12 million visitors a year.
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