75D - PH- MAIN PLACE TRANSFORMATION

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INTRODUCTION This Addendum to the Final EIR for the Fashion Square Commercial Center (now known as MainPlace) has been prepared for proposed modifications of 147,000 square feet to three areas of the existing MainPlace Regional Shopping Center, located in the City of Santa Ana, on a site surrounded by the Santa Ana Freeway (I.5), the Garden Grove Freeway (SR-22), and North Main Street. This addendum has been prepared in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) based on a previously certified EIR, The Final EIR for the City of Santa Ana Redevelopment Project: Fashion Square Commercial Center (Fashion Square EIR) prepared September 1983, and certified in 1983. The Fashion Square Center has subsequently been renamed MainPlace and is regarded as a regional shopping center. The Final Fashion Square EIR proposed the rehabilitation and redevelopment of the site as a mixed use commercial complex consisting of an ultimate intensity of 1,500,000 square feet of leasable office space, 1,600,000 square feet of gross leasable retail space, and 1,200 hotel guest rooms totaling 979,200 square feet. The project required the demolition of the then existing Main Street Center (163,403 square feet of leasable area) and the construction of new retail and/or office buildings in its place. The then existing Fashion Square Center comprised 521,725 square feet of leasable area which was incorporated into the renovation of the current MainPlace Regional Shopping Center. EXISTING AREA DESCRIPTION MainPlace is a regional shopping center located in the City of Santa Ana which serves all of central Orange County. There is currently 1,108,080 square feet of retail floor area in the center, including four anchor stores (Bullocks, Nordstrom, and two Robinson's-May). The property has three parking facilities, two of which are located in the northwest comer of the site adjacent to the I-5/SR-22/SR-57 interchange, and one between Main Street and Nordstrom. The Layout is shown in Figure 1. The remainder of the property is surface parking. The total available existing parking spaces is 4,987 spaces. The surrounding land uses include the Garden Grove Freeway (SR 22) on the north; the Santa Ana Freeway (I-5) on the west; commercial uses including the Fidelity Federal Tower and other office buildings to the south; and, Polly's Pies, vacant land slated for the Main Street Concourse, and the Town & Country Shopping Center located in the City of Orange to the east. Of note is that the existing square footage of 1,108,080 square feet is approximately 27 percent of the 4,079,200 square feet which was proposed and analyzed in the Fashion Square EIR. Atiendarn T m—for Main Piacelsanta Ana (GR96•63) April 4. Page a ® j 96 Project No. 96,066 75D-391