Hotel, cinema, shops start to take shape

O&S Holdings LLC, developer of the 2-million-square-foot Bridge Street Town Centre in Cummings Research Park, plans a late September grand opening for the project's shops, restaurants and 14-screen Monaco Pictures cinema.

The latest list of tenants now includes nearly 40 shops, restaurants and entertainment venues.

"We're on target with construction," said Rachel Forman, vice president, corporate marketing for Santa Monica, Calif.-based O&S.

The $17 million Monaco Pictures theater will have 2,800 seats, including 240 VIP seats, all luxury reserved seating, on the upper level, said Todd Tickner, president and managing partner of Monaco Entertainment LLC. The cinema also will have a lobby bar, and the upper-level VIP section will have its own lounge.

Monaco Pictures will offer state-of-the-art digital theaters, with Real D 3-D technology, Tickner said.

"Monaco will be one of the most expensive and technically advanced entertainment destinations in that part of the country," he said. "We hired the best designers to create what we hope will be the crown jewel for Bridge Street."

O&S, developer of Monaco Pictures, recently named Chandon Clenard as its new director of food and beverage, and he will oversee the food and beverage operations for the company's properties. He now oversees development of the food and beverage operation for the 210-room Westin Huntsville, also part of Bridge Street, and Monaco Pictures.

Clenard was executive chef at Border Grill in Santa Monica before joining O&S. As senior sous chef at Spago, he studied under Wolfgang Puck.

The 210-room Westin is scheduled to open in Bridge Street in December, Forman said. The 11-story Westin also will have 74 residential condominiums.

The hotel rooms are on the first six floors - with hotel rooms and condos sharing the sixth floor - and the rest of the upper floors reserved for condos.

A six-story, 138,000-square-foot office building is scheduled to open in Bridge Street about two weeks after the retail establishments open, probably in mid-October, Forman said.

The Westin will have a full-service lobby bar, 24-hour room service and 10,000 square feet of conference space with catering capabilities. O&S is the franchisee of the Westin Huntsville and the Westin McKinney in Texas.

O&S and its affiliates own more than 80 properties in the United States, including the 550,000-square-foot Louisiana Boardwalk in Bossier City, La. The company is developing, in addition to Bridge Street in Huntsville, the 1-million-square-foot Bridge Street Town Center in McKinney and the 5-million-square-foot Bridge Street Town Center Chicagoland in Illinois.