Shopping-center demolition starts for new Ralphs
A strip mall on South El Camino Real in San Clemente, formerly housing a cleaner, surf shop, restaurant, and other businesses, is being demolished this week to make way for a larger Ralphs grocery store. The 19,500 square-foot store will become a 28,322 square-foot Ralphs Fresh Fare with expanded foods and a deli. The former mall space becomes additional parking, and the store will reopen around June 30 with a copper dome, fountain, and three tile murals facing El Camino Real.