One day before the public gets a peek at a preliminary EIR for ambitious plans to redevelop the Redondo Beach waterfront, developer CenterCal Properties released a video Monday giving viewers a “virtual tour” of its $300 million project vision.

The nearly 12-minute-long video features sweeping views of the 35-acre site from Seaside Lagoon to the Redondo Beach pier, historical photos, movie-like renderings, and interviews with familiar waterfront faces, including Tony’s on the Pier co-owner Tony Trutanich Jr., Captain Kidd’s Fish Market owner Chris Bredesen, Kincaid’s General Manager Reggie Thomas, King Harbor Boating Foundation Chairman Julie Coll and others.

•Video: Take the virtual tour of CenterCal’s Redondo Beach waterfront proposal

Mayor Steve Aspel, former Mayor Mike Gin and former Councilman Pat Aust also are featured in the video, which includes animated, fly-over shots of a 20-foot-wide boardwalk, parks, a 120-room boutique hotel facing the pier, and an upscale movie theater overlooking Seaside Lagoon, which would opened to the ocean and transformed into a shallow beach with artificial reefs.

A pedestrian drawbridge would connect the pier to a harbor-side public market, where Naja’s Place and Quality Seafood would be relocated.

Overall, the project calls for the demolition of about 220,000 square feet of existing structures — including the crumbling pier parking structure — and the building and renovating of up to 523,000 square feet of retail, restaurant, creative office, movie theater and other space.

Business owners in Redondo Beach have long called for revitalization of the aging, neglected waterfront.

The video — which CenterCal will screen in the Bayside Ballroom of the Portofino Hotel at 3 p.m. Sunday — has been in the works for the past six months, according to CEO Fred Bruning.

“We really wanted to get it right,” Bruning said. “What you see in the video is actually exactly what we hope to build.”

Aspel, a project supporter, called the video “well done” and “marvelous.”

“It’s very self-explanatory about what the project’s going to be,” Aspel said, adding that at first, he mistook one of the high-definition aerial renderings for real footage.

The CenterCal proposal has received some criticism from residents worried about scale, density and traffic.

Todd Loewenstein, president of Redondo Residents for Responsible Revitalization, said the video did not give him an idea of the scale of the project.

“It’s a very nicely produced video that evokes a lot of emotion and that’s great, that’s what developers’ videos do, but I made it halfway through before they started to give any kind of details about what they’re going to do,” he said.

“It seemed that the video is very focused on dining and entertainment, and biking and everything else is kind of an afterthought.”

Bruning said he envisions many recreational and water activities, and that a range of offerings is key to the project’s viability.

The draft environmental impact report, which Redondo Beach officials are calling “without question the most complex and comprehensive EIR that the city has produced,” will go before the City Council on Tuesday and be posted on the city website at 6 p.m. Copies will be available for review at City Hall and both city libraries beginning Wednesday.

Feedback will be solicited at three community workshops:

• Nov. 21: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 300 N. Harbor Drive

• Dec. 9: 6-9 p.m. at the city’s Main Library, 403 N. Pacific Coast Highway

• Jan. 9: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 300 N. Harbor Drive

The public comment period for the draft EIR ends at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 19.