Construction is expected to be completed in February on the last remaining retail spaces at the Mountain Meadows Plaza shopping center in Moorpark.

Planet Construction Co. is putting the finishing touches on the buildings on three lots in the shopping center. The 11.79-acre shopping center is across the street from Moorpark High School on Tierra Rejada Road.

Several retail and commercial businesses are already in the center, including restaurants and a hair and nail salon. The center is anchored by Vons supermarket.

Xavier Franco, broker for Remax Commercial Development, which is representing the site, said negotiations are still in the works with possible new tenants. Because leases were still being negotiated, Franco said, he couldn't reveal the names of the potential tenants but did say they are national, publicly traded companies. He added that retail space is still available at the site.

Franco said he has talked to representatives of a frozen yogurt franchise, a video game store, a sporting goods store, a fast-food chain restaurant and a bank.

He said two possible tenants are looking to split an existing property that was once occupied by Sav-On drugstore, an original tenant of the center, which was built in 1996.

One of the new buildings at the front of the center will feature a courtyard with a covered area where customers can sit and eat.

Franco said a fitness center will move into the rear building, which will be within 100 feet of homes. The Moorpark City Council approved the building for that use at a special meeting in 2005. At that meeting, the council also limited operating hours for all existing and future stores at the center from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Franco said all the potential tenants he spoke to said the center appealed to them because of the vicinity of the high school.

"Having the students as customers of the center was an obvious selling point," he said.

Moorpark resident MaryAnn Carpenter, who lives on a street near the center, said she is looking forward to seeing new stores there.

"It will be nice to stay and shop at the center, which is closer to our homes instead of having to drive on congested Los Angeles (Avenue) to do a lot of our shopping," Carpenter said. "It will also be nice to see something fill the old vacant Sav-On spot, which has been an eyesore in this community for some time now."