Revitalization plans for San Marcos Restaurant Row will include housing, business space NBC 7 San Diego [Video]

The redevelopment of San Marcos’ famed Restaurant Row has company next door. The building just to the west of Restaurant Row is being targeted for redevelopment.

The old Sears building at 1100 W. San Marcos Blvd. has been vacant for 15 years since the store closed in 2009. Lennar Homes of California has proposed a project with 71 residential townhome units and around 6,000 square feet of commercial space on the lot.

Lennar Homes is also the developer for the Restaurant Row project, which will include over 200 housing units, 10,000 square feet of commercial space, a park and a skate park.

While the Sears building project is technically separate from the Restaurant Row project, Sean del Solar, Senior Planner with the City of San Marcos, says Lennar Homes will be developing the Sears site in coordination with the adjacent project and will be architectural complementary.

“Their goal with that …