"This group strengthens what City Center offers the community and gives people more reasons to make visiting the center part of their routine." Jeff Dodd, senior vice president of retail at Sunset Development, said that to The Mercury News in June about a group of new tenants. None of them sells designer clothing.
When City Center opened in 2018, two of its defining storefronts were high-end clothing boutiques. As of this fall, both are gone, and the openings since spring have been a Turkish restaurant with live jazz, an Oakland taqueria, a fitness storefront that opened with a run club, a candy shop open until 10 p.m. and a bigger party room at the escape-room venue. Every one of them is a place people come back to weekly, and the change follows a plan for what Bishop Ranch is supposed to become.
The founding storefronts that closed this summer
M by Maggie Rizer and its men's counterpart, Trader, had shared adjacent ground-floor spaces since City Center opened in 2018. Both closed this summer, and in August Danville San Ramon described their exit as "the end of a fashion era." Dodd called it a shift "continuing the evolution of the retail lineup at City Center Bishop Ranch." The contemporary women's shop Aly's Grace is set to expand into the former storefronts. No move-in date has been announced.
The dining side lost a long-running tenant earlier in the year. LB Steak closed its City Center location in June after more than five years, when its parent company, Vine Hospitality, closed all seven of its restaurants, Danville San Ramon reported.
Here is the 2026 turnover side by side:
| Space or tenant | Through early 2026 | As of October 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Ground-floor boutiques | M by Maggie Rizer and Trader, open since 2018 | Closed this summer, with Aly's Grace set to expand in |
| Former Nike store | Nike | Lululemon one-year pop-up, officially opened Aug. 8 |
| Turkish dining and jazz | Not yet open | Meyhouse, 5,400 square feet, open since late April |
| Tacos | Not yet open | Rico Rico Taco, open since late July |
| Escapology | 4,800-square-foot site | Adding a 1,400-square-foot party space |
| LB Steak | Open for more than five years | Closed in June, no successor announced |
What filled in is built for a weeknight
Meyhouse came first. The Mercury News reports that the contemporary Turkish concept, which already has locations in Sunnyvale and Palo Alto, made its East Bay debut at City Center in late April. It leased 5,400 square feet and pairs dinner with jazz performances.
Rico Rico Taco opened in late July at 6000 Bollinger Canyon Road, Suite 1207, next to West Elm and Fieldwork Brewing. The Mercury News reports it is the owners' first expansion outside Oakland, serving handmade tortillas and carved al pastor. The opening took longer than planned. Bay Area Telegraph reported that a projected February opening slipped while permits and construction finished, leading to a late-July soft opening.
Lululemon took over the former Nike storefront. Bay Area Telegraph puts the space at about 5,448 square feet, while The Mercury News rounded it to 5,500. The store opened quietly in late July and held its official opening on Saturday, Aug. 8, with a run organized alongside the Unofficial Run Club. It is a one-year pop-up, so it has an end date built in.
lil sweet treat sells candy sourced from Sweden, Spain, France, Belgium and elsewhere. City Center's directory lists it as open daily from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., late enough to catch people leaving dinner.
Escapology is adding a 1,400-square-foot party space next to its existing 4,800-square-foot site, according to Sunset Development. That makes room for birthday parties and group bookings in addition to escape-room games.
September's restaurant week showed how much weight food now carries at the center. The Mercury News reported that more than a dozen food and beverage businesses joined the "Taste of City Center" promotion from Sept. 18 to 27. Offers included a four-course prix fixe with cocktails at Bamboo Sushi for $60, a three-course lunch at Delarosa Bishop Ranch for $20, and a pizza with two drinks at Fieldwork Brewing Co. for $35.
Why the mix is changing
This year's leasing makes more sense next to the scale of Sunset Development's plans. At an annual update in April, Sunset president Alex Mehran Jr. described a 585-acre district with 5 million square feet of office space, including 250,000 square feet of medical offices where John Muir Health has been expanding. The district also has 1 million square feet of retail, restaurant and entertainment space and hundreds of hotel rooms, according to The Mercury News.
The paper called housing "a major shift for Bishop Ranch." Plans call for 8,000 condominiums, row houses and apartments, and Mehran put total investment at an estimated $5 billion. His stated goal is "a 10-minute lifestyle," where everything sits within minutes of where people work or live.
That plan is moving forward. In July, Sunset announced that Lennar had acquired 25 acres at Bishop Ranch 8 for Canopy, an approved 255-home project, Danville San Ramon reported. Mehran described the project as part of tying homes to nearby parks, trails and amenities. On the office side, Cloud Software Group agreed this spring to lease 55,000 square feet at 2623 Camino Ramon, which Mehran said more than doubles its space.
A center serving thousands of nearby homes needs places people visit every week, such as dinner spots, a store with a running club and a candy shop open until 10. Destination fashion, by contrast, draws people a few times a year. The 2026 tenant changes match the residential plan Sunset has laid out.
The calendar now does the anchoring
The fall and holiday event schedule fills much of the role the boutiques once had. These are the remaining dates as of Oct. 12, from City Center's events calendar:
- Through Oct. 31: BARKADE at The Hub.
- Through Nov. 1: Salt & Straw's Halloween celebration.
- Oct. 17: A lululemon yoga event and the farmers market, with more market dates later in October and into November.
- Oct. 25: Howl-O-Ween.
- Nov. 6: Opening ceremony for the Kristi Yamaguchi Holiday Ice Rink, which runs through Jan. 3.
- Nov. 20: The Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony, with the Monte Vista Band, singers and Santa's arrival.
- Nov. 26: The Bishop Ranch Turkey Trot.
- Santa visits: Nov. 21–22, Nov. 27–29, Dec. 5–6, Dec. 12–13 and Dec. 19–20.
Youth sports add to the same weekend. The City of San Ramon's Oct. 1 update lists a Halloween-themed youth tennis tournament on Oct. 17 and 18 at California High School and Dougherty Valley High School, the same Saturday as the yoga event and farmers market at City Center.
What is still unsettled
Several pieces of the change have no confirmed dates yet.
- The LB Steak space. No local report through early October names a replacement. Palmetto Superfoods leased 1,035 square feet near LB Steak, the East Bay Times reported in October 2025, and City Center's directory still lists Palmetto as coming soon. It is a separate space and is not the steakhouse's successor.
- Aly's Grace. The expansion into the former M and Trader storefronts is confirmed, but there is no move-in date.
- Lululemon's lease term. The one-year pop-up runs on a fixed term, so the former Nike space could change hands again in 2027.
- Bartlett Pear Park. The city's 2026/27–2030/31 capital plan says construction on the two-acre park at Executive Parkway and Camino Ramon began in April 2025 and is expected to finish by fall 2026. The city's construction-projects page still lists it under design and pre-design, and no public opening date has been announced.
- The Iron Horse Trail crossing at Crow Canyon Road. The City Council approved a design contract for an overcrossing on Sept. 21. Bay Area Telegraph reports a tentative construction window of 2028 to 2030, depending on funding.
Changes are happening elsewhere along Crow Canyon too. Leslie's Pool Supplies closed its store at 3211 Crow Canyon Place in Crow Canyon Commons, and Danville San Ramon reported on Oct. 8 that the company's other three Tri-Valley stores remain open.
If you own a home within a few minutes of Bishop Ranch, these changes at City Center may matter to your property over time. Rochford Real Estate Company follows San Ramon's new downtown storefront by storefront. Request a complimentary market evaluation, and we will walk you through how the area around your home is changing.
