January 27, 2026
San Francisco Business Times
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Montgomery Village Shopping Center Strikes Five New Leases
Santa Rosa’s Montgomery Village shopping center is seeing more storefronts change over after the recent debuts of an Apple Store and Blue Bottle cafe.
Last year, the 280,000-square-foot retail hub an hour north of San Francisco announced 11 new store openings to round out 2025 and 2026 from brands including Anthropologie, Vuori, Free People and Fieldwork Brewing. The center has moved in a high-end direction since its 2021 acquisition by Massachusetts-based WS Development, with the latest debuts from Apple at 720 Farmers Ln. (between Vuori and Me Spa) on Jan. 23 and Blue Bottle Coffee at 701 Village Ct. on Jan. 26.
The latest news includes stores from five new leases debuting in 2026:
L’Occitane, the global French beauty brand, is opening its newest Bay Area store at Montgomery Village with a grand opening event Feb. 5. at 2360 Magowan Dr.
Kendra Scott, the women’s jewelry and lifestyle brand whose CEO you might recognize from reality business pitch show “Shark Tank.”
Rowan, a specialist providing ear piercings by licensed nurses only with hypoallergenic jewelry, in the company’s first expansion into California after opening roughly 100 stores around the country.
Olives and Agave, the first location of a new restaurant with Middle East and Spanish influences, will debut this year at 909 Village Ct.
Made Local Marketplace, a current tenant, is expanding into a new larger space next month, allowing the venue to introduce more new makers, host market pop-ups and community workshops.
Since 2021, L’Occitane has closed several San Francisco locations: inside the San Francisco Centre and Embarcadero Center and on Fillmore Street in Pacific Heights. But it retains a presence at Stonestown Galleria and five other Bay Area outposts including Montgomery Village.
Since October, Montgomery Village has also debuted new stores from Anthropologie, Sephora, Vuori, Free People, Sweetgreen, Bluemercury, Club Pilates and Fieldwork Brewing. Others expected in the spring are Face Foundrie and Beach by Everything but Water.
WS Development acquired the shopping center in 2021 for $93 million from the family that owned the property for more than seven decades. It has made recent improvements to the center’s 3,000 square feet of community spaces, adding fire pits, outdoor seating and string lighting to bolster a sense of place.
Longtime tenants Real Aesthetic Medicine & Skincare Science and Sea Thai Bistro expanded or refreshed their stores in 2025. Shake Shack also opened its 12th Bay Area outpost there in early 2024. Other new arrivals in recent years include Salt & Straw, Mendocino Farms and the activewear brand of Free People, FP Movement.
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