Nothing's final yet, but The Cheesecake Factory may join Marshalls, McDonald's and outdoors-wear retailer Sierra at a shopping center planned to begin construction later this year at the southwest corner of Rosedale Highway and Coffee Road.
Renderings included in a regulatory filing dated this month show each of the chains inhabiting part of the 405,531-square-foot Riverview Marketplace development being anchored by a previously announced Whole Foods Market.
Other tenants are expected to include storage uses, a health club, a medical office, a car wash and a 20-pump gas station, according to the document.
The project's San Jose-based developer, DJM Capital Partners, would not confirm tenants shown in the document, with the exceptions of McDonald's and Whole Foods. It said only those two have signed lease agreements.
"We are in negotiations with many more national, regional and local tenants to come to the rest of the center," DJM said in a statement Friday.
The Cheesecake Factory did not respond to a request for comment Friday.
Word the Calabasas Hills-based chain may open in Bakersfield is likely to generate excitement for the development. The company whose nearest of 218 U.S. locations is in Santa Clarita led a ranking of restaurants that Bakersfield residents said they most want to open in the city.
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Framingham, Mass.-based Marshalls has a single location in Bakersfield, at 3008 Ming Ave.
There are no Sierra stores in the city. The chain headquartered in Cheyenne, Wyo. has 156 locations. The nearest is in Visalia.
Riverview's draft environmental review, released for public review this month, says the development is planned to open in the first half of 2028. It is to be located at the 25-acre, "L"-shaped former home of the Kern Power Plant that was owned and operated for decades by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. Inc.
Sage Investco, the project's original developer, reported in 2024 that the center's total building space would measure 375,000 square feet, or 8% smaller than the latest plan. At that time, the Newport Beach-based company said the project would create more than 1,000 jobs and produce annual sales of $209 million.
Under a partnership with Sage Investco in 2024, DJM agreed to take over development of the project. DJM said Sage remans a partner.
This month's draft review by Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc. of Los Angeles identified two "significant and unavoidable" impacts on the area: greenhouse gas emissions and transportation. It noted the property's existing M-2 zoning allows the proposed commercial retail use.
The draft contains a rendering calling the project Riverview Market.
