Drawings filed with the memo show a 15,500-square-foot store along the Eggert Road side of the plaza, but a note on the document cautions the final location of the building is subject to change.

WS Development is widely expected to tear down the two existing retail buildings on the plaza property and to construct new stores for any new tenants the company attracts to the plaza.

The first leases are the most difficult to get, DiPirro said, and the credibility of the two companies makes it that much easier for WS Development to attract other retailers.

"If we can get enough diversity of stores like that, it does become a destination," she said.

DiPirro said she'd like to see a variety of national and local stores and restaurants, and even mixed-use development, in the plaza. WS Development has had success with that model in some of its other properties nationally.

Stores such as Saks Off 5th, Neiman Marcus Last Call and Bloomingdale's Outlet often follow Whole Foods and L.L. Bean to the kind of high-end shopping center that WS Development is trying to build, said Burt P. Flickinger III, managing director of New York retail consulting firm Strategic Resource Group.