City Center Bishop Ranch, San Ramon
The French-chain cosmetics store Sephora will be opening this summer at City Center Bishop Ranch in San Ramon. Check out their online shop and the brands they carry here.
City Center Bishop Ranch, San Ramon
The French-chain cosmetics store Sephora will be opening this summer at City Center Bishop Ranch in San Ramon. Check out their online shop and the brands they carry here.
City Center Bishop Ranch, San Ramon
The San Francisco-based menswear shop Unionmade is opening their fourth location and first in the East Bay in City Center Bishop Ranch in San Ramon this summer. Check out their online men’s selection here. Note that the above photo is not necessarily where the store will be.
From their website:
Established in 2009 on the eastern edge of San Francisco’s Castro District, Unionmade has been offering some of the best-made, hard-to-find, wardrobe-elevating menswear on the market ever since. Proudly featuring brands from the US, Japan, Italy, France, Scandinavia and more, we take the utmost pride in our stock list, which is carefully curated to ensure that it reflects the values we hold most dear. And those values are the driving force behind every brand we carry.
City Center Bishop Ranch, San Ramon
The women’s clothing store Anthropologie at Blackhawk Plaza in Danville is relocating to City Center Bishop Ranch in San Ramon by the end of March. Check out their website here.
Blackhawk Plaza, Danville
City Center Bishop Ranch, San Ramon
Roam Artisan Burgers opened their sixth location today at the new City Center Bishop Ranch shopping plaza in San Ramon. Check out their menu here. Every time I go to their Lafayette restaurant I always get the Tejano burger. Count me in as a huge fan. With Boba Guys and Slanted Door also open in the plaza, this place keeps getting better and better in terms of the food options.
City Center Bishop Ranch, San Ramon
The eagerly anticipated opening of San Francisco-based Slanted Door has arrived as they open for dinner this evening in the new City Center Bishop Ranch shopping plaza in San Ramon. Lunch will be available at a future date. Check out their dinner menu here and drink menu here.
From their website:
Our space is one of the two glass boxes that visually “end” the plan of the Piazza. So on the one hand we had the challenge (and opportunity) to design in a space that is transparent on all sides. Restaurants usually hide a lot of program, but in this case we celebrated it. We also wanted to emphasize the transparency from the piazza side, so we used materials with a lot of tonal contrast (blacks and whites) to draw one’s eye without resorting to color, which we felt would have been less in keeping with Piano’s overall pallet.
City Center Bishop Ranch, San Ramon
Lafayette-based the piece. store, which features a “curated collection of luxury items for the woman, man, and home”, opened their second location in the recently opened City Center Bishop Ranch in San Ramon. Check out their online collection here.
From their website:
You’ll discover collections you won’t find in other stores, handpicked from New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, as well as fashion capitals across the globe. We carry gifts, weekend wear for men, and select stylish items for your home.
City Center Bishop Ranch, San Ramon
A new shopping center called City Center Bishop Ranch opened in San Ramon on Bollinger Canyon Rd, across from Shops at Bishop Ranch. There are currently 29 shops, restaurants and a gym listed on their directory, including Berkeley-based Fieldwork Brewing Company (which was PACKED), with Slanted Door and Roam Artisan Burgers opening later this year followed by Ramen Hiroshi, MIXT, Curry Up Now and more eateries opening next year. The place I most wanted to try, Boba Guys, is soft open on weekdays only until their grand opening December 1st. The LOT, a 10 screen movie theater and restaurant will be open in a couple of days, As for stores, West Elm, Pottery Barn, Williams Sonoma, Athleta, Candle Delirium and smaller boutiques are open now with Anthropologie opening next spring. The gym Equinox is scheduled to open by year end.
The two story rectangular shopping center features a plaza in the center with a grass play area for children (not dogs) with large building blocks, a patio with a water play area for children, and a separate area with seating where live music may be performed. Some interesting aspects of the mall are the food trucks stationed right outside, as well as the falcon to scare off problem birds. (See photos after the jump for a closer look). The parking garages are hidden inside which is a nice touch; just note the stores when you enter the mall so you’ll remember how to get back to your car!
How does City Center Bishop Ranch compare with recently built or remodeled local malls such as Broadway Plaza in Walnut Creek and The Veranda in Concord? There are quite a few similarities and differences among the malls but as I strolled down the second floor pathway looking at the stores on the other side on both levels it reminded me a bit of Sunvalley shopping center in Concord, only outdoors. Unlike Broadway Plaza where each store has its own look and feel, all the stores at City Center Bishop Ranch have huge windows with only the store signs having their own design. That will make it much easier as new stores get replaced, but far less interesting.
As you can see from the photo of the outside, some might see a volume “floating” over the street level, as noted by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop while others might view it as a monolithic monstrosity in a box. The inside fares better with the plaza at center, however it’s still quite monotonous throughout. Nevertheless, with numerous eateries, a movie theater, shops and boutiques, it will no doubt become a popular shopping destination. I know I’ll be back, if only for a Boba Guys drink.
More photos including the falcon, food trucks and stores after the jump…