The addition of restaurants to a shopping center can add as much as 20 percent to the sales of other nearby stores, Seamon wrote, citing data from the International Council of Shopping Centers.

Brian Flad, vice president of management and leasing at Flad Development & Investment Corp. of Madison, which manages Prairie Towne Center, said his company is still working to formally secure retail and restaurant tenants for the space.

In addition, UBS also has the go-ahead from the city to reconfigure the 12,000-square-foot building that is home to a Lands’ End store into three smaller spaces, one of which would include a drive-thru, presumably for a restaurant or coffee shop. Lands’ End has made no announcements about moving, closing or downsizing the store that opened in 1997 but is in the midst of a push to add more brick-and-mortar stores to its portfolio, most of which are around 5,000-square-feet.

Last month, the Dodgeville-based company, known for its catalog sales, opened a store on Staten Island that is the third of four to six stores the company plans to open this year. Lands’ End, earlier this year, opened a new store in Kildeer, Illinois, and Burlington, Massachusetts, and now has 14-stand-alone stores in the U.S., according to the company’s website.