Redondo Beach will soon get a glimpse of what’s in store for the revamped South Bay Galleria, which has struggled to recover from the departure of Nordstrom a year-and-a-half ago and the generally flat performance of brick-and-mortar stores.

Forest City, the developer that owns the 30-acre indoor mall on Hawthorne Boulevard, will submit revised plans for a mixed-use expansion in the next few weeks, officials said at Tuesday’s City Council meeting.

The panel approved a $281,000 budget increase to cover the costs of preparing a fourth alternative for the project’s draft EIR. Forest City will reimburse Redondo Beach for the report’s overall price tag.

The company teased a release of the EIR in October, describing the makeover as “a unique and exciting gathering place that reinforces the vibrancy of Redondo’s coastal lifestyle and boosts this critical economic engine.”

But designers went back to the drawing board in response to feedback from nearby residents who were given a preview of the plans.

In addition to smaller alternatives, the EIR will study a project of up to 650 housing units and 224,464 square feet of net new retail development, including an apartment building on Kingsdale Avenue that has drawn backlash from neighbors who fear it could worsen traffic and cast shadows on their homes.

An outdoor retail and dining development with a courtyard, a new department store and a hotel could be built on the west side of the mall, sending parking underground.

According to presentations given to neighbors last year, Forest City intends to build 480 new housing units. Overall, the new development could push the mall’s retail space to more than 1 million square feet, said Community Development Director Aaron Jones.

Geoff Maleman, a representative for Forest City, said he could not share details of the new plans Tuesday, but he confirmed they will be submitted to the city in a matter of weeks. The company’s design team, he said, was making revisions as late as Friday.

“We received an enormous amount of feedback from all different parts of the community,” Maleman said. “We got feedback as well from our potential tenants, from our leasing folks, and we’ve taken all that, gone back to the drawing board, and we’re continuing to make changes.

“We have taken all the feedback we’ve gotten from the community related to traffic, to ingress and egress, to the types of land use, and we’re trying to put together a project that we’re very excited about, we think that the city will be very excited about and will be like nothing else in the South Bay,” Maleman said.

Earlier that night, officials said that since Nordstrom relocated to the Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance, the South Bay Galleria is performing at 50 to 60 percent of its peak.

After the EIR is released, possibly in the next few months, a public comment period will last 30 to 60 days, Jones said. Then, the design would go to the Planning Commission.