BURLINGTON COAT Factory in Bella Terra (Tribune photo).

More changes are coming to the Bella Terra center in Huntington Beach, including new retail tenants and the addition of hundreds of new housing units.

According to developer DJM, plans for the project at Edinger Avenue and Beach Boulevard include the demolition of the existing 149,000-square foot Burlington Coat Factory – along with an adjacent 33,000-square foot retail building – to be replaced with a low-rise 25,000-square foot retail and restaurant building on the ground floor topped by five stories of residential units – 300 in all. 

The center opened in the mid-60s as Huntington Center. The building to be demolished was originally a two-story JC Penney department store.

Anchored at that time also by Montgomery Ward and Broadway department stores, it was enclosed in the 1970s, then redone as an open air center in the 1990s as Bella Terra.

The latest new tenant is Madison Reed, a “prestige beauty brand” specializing in women’s hair coloring.