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The Anaheim GardenWalk — a unique outdoor shopping, dining and entertainment center — is now open just steps from the Anaheim Convention Center and the Disneyland Resort.

This entertainment and lifestyle development encompasses approximately 440,000 square feet of retail, dining and entertainment areas amidst an environment of beautifully manicured and unique gardens. The gardens within this complex range from a peaceful Zen-style garden to colorful entertainment pavilions incorporating waterfalls, as well as distinctive landscaping features.

The first phase opened with six nationally known restaurants including such favorites as Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., California Pizza Kitchen, Cheesecake Factory, McCormick & Schmick’s Grille, P.F. Chang’s and Roy’s. Each restaurant includes spacious patio seating ideal for Southern California’s year-round sunny weather. The second phase of this innovative retail, dining and entertainment venue opened June 14. One of the Anaheim GardenWalk’s main features is “300 Anaheim Bowling & Entertainment Center” — an upscale bowling lounge complete with a concierge who, upon proper fitting, delivers guests’ bowling balls to their lanes. In addition, guests can enjoy personal lane-side service while dining on menu items created by the executive chef. Another highlight of the center includes “The Movie Experience 14″ — a 14-screen movie complex, including IMAX that features first-run, as well as vintage classic movies.

New to the OC scene is “Heat Ultra Lounge” — a 10,000-square-foot nightclub and special event venue complete with two distinctively different and luxurious areas for entertaining and exclusive VIP sections. The Anaheim GardenWalk also offers a wide selection of restaurants and retail stores including a few OC originals. Some of the eclectic offerings include: Bar Louie, Chico’s, Harley-Davidson of Anaheim, Hollister, O’Neill, Pop the Cork wine bar and Tommy Bahama.

“GardenWalk gives Anaheim’s visitors and locals alike a place to dine, shop and explore like no other in Orange County,” said Bill Stone, principal of Excel Realty Holdings, LLC.

Upon opening 300 Anaheim Bowling & Entertainment Center, Tristan Stone, general manager for 300 Anaheim said, “With the center’s private lanes — Club 300 — and its sophisticated dining capabilities, 300 Anaheim is sure to bring new meaning to bowling in Orange County and plenty of fun for GardenWalk visitors!”

“We are very excited to open the newest Tommy Bahama retail store at Anaheim GardenWalk,” says Doug Wood, President & COO, Tommy Bahama Group. “This center has generated a lot of excitement & we feel that it perfectly conveys the brand’s ‘life is one long weekend’ philosophy.”

The final phase of this project will include two hotels with a combined total of 866 hotel guestrooms, and a 400-unit timeshare property scheduled to open end of 2010. The hotel meeting and event space will include 36,000 square feet in one hotel and 14,000 square feet in the other hotel.

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