The owner of Cascade Village Shopping Center is looking to build more stores on land at the southeast corner of U.S. Highway 20 and Robal Road.

Sima Corp. of Santa Barbara, California, applied for permits in January to construct four retail buildings on the roughly 7-acre property, which is adjacent to Cascade Village. With the second phase, Cascade Village would fill out the entire triangle of land between U.S. Highways 20 and 97 with Robal Road as the northern boundary.

Cascade Village was formerly known as Mountain View Mall. Sima Corp. demolished part of the mall and converted it into an open-air shopping center, completing the renovation in 2005.

Around the same time, Sima prepared the expansion site for construction, and the city of Bend approved a development plan.

It’s not clear why Sima Corp. waited more than a decade to execute its plans, but the company’s marketing materials suggest business at Cascade Village is booming. Annual sales in the shopping center total more than $275 million, according to a company website, and sales are up 10 percent since 2012. Sima touts Cascade Village as a hub for consumers from Sisters, Redmond and Bend with exposure to 51,400 cars a day on U.S. Highways 20 and 97.

Representatives of Sima did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Sima won’t see its building-permit applications approved without making some changes, said Heidi Kennedy, senior city planner.

Although the city approved the company’s development plan for the phase-two site in 2002, information in the permit applications doesn’t align with that plan, she said. So the company can either file new applications, or file a development plan that’s consistent with the permit applications, she said.

Those applications indicate Sima wants to build more retail space than called for in previous plans. The company is looking to build a total of 66,789 square feet of new retail space, according to the permit applications.

All of the company’s building-permit applications are for single-story “retail shell” buildings. The largest would be 42,000 square feet, which is just less than an acre, and cost $3.2 million, according to the application.

The other three buildings would be 10,000 square feet, 8,780 square feet, and 6,000 square feet and cost $1.9 million, according to the permit applications.

Sima bought the Mountain View Mall in 1998 and the expansion site in 2004, according to Deschutes County’s property database.

Mountain View was anchored by Kmart, Regal Cinemas and Emporium, a Northwest chain of department stores, according to The Bulletin’s archives. All three filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Kmart closed in 2000, and a few years later Sima Corp. demolished the north wing of the mall that Kmart had anchored, according to The Bulletin’s archives. The enclosed mall was replaced by an open-air plaza with J.C. Penney as the anchor. Cascade Village now lists 22 tenants and includes several free-standing buildings along Robal Road that are occupied by Bed, Bath & Beyond, Petsmart and Best Buy.

— Reporter: 541-617-7860, kmclaughlin@bendbulletin.com