El Dorado Hills’ largest shopping center, the dream of Tony Mansour, is nearly complete.

With almost all the pieces of El Dorado Hills’ Town Center in place, just two parcels remain open for development.

Helping close in on the final build-out are the four story, plus towers, 130-unit boutique Chateau du Lac hotel on five acres. It will include retail shops and a Mikuni’s Japanese restaurant, plus the three-story “New Orleans” building planned for retail, restaurants and a nightclub on the first floor.

Called the New Orleans because of its wrought iron décor, the building has 600 square feet of office space and a 9,000-square-foot penthouse area ready for lease.

These projects will bring the 100-acre Town Center to about 80 percent of its eventual total build-out of more than one million square feet.

The only remaining empty spaces are at the corner of White Rock and Vine streets, planned for a 45,000-square-foot office building that could wind up as medical/health center and a four-acre lot bounded by the northern lake, Town Center Boulevard, Vine Street and Mercedes Lane.

It’s planned for a 20,000-square-foot retail parcel, part of an entire block owned by the Affinito family of Sacramento, which owns Chateau du Lac, as well as hotel and restaurant properties in the capital city.

Set to open Thanksgiving weekend in the food court next to and below the Regal El Dorado Hills Theater plaza is Fireside Burgers, operated by the owners of Famous Burgers in Sacramento. It will fill 2,250 square feet in the lower court, a space held open for two years while the company sought just the right burger business.

Tony Mansour, CEO of The Mansour Co., whose president is his son Louis, said space similarly was reserved until the “right” pizza store and Mexican eatery could be found to fill what are now Pete’s Pizza and Brewhouse and Pueblo Chico.

“We wanted pizza, Mexican and burger restaurants and we held out until we got them,” he explained. “Pizza, Mexican food and hamburgers are staples for people who want to go to a family or casual restaurant. These are anchors of our food pavilion,” which also includes Chili’s, Cold Stone Creamery ice cream, Maui Taco, Sizzling Mongolian Barbecue and Subway shops. Town Center’s main anchors are Nugget supermarket, Target and the theater.

The restaurants, which match Mansour’s devotion to independent owner/operators, feed into serving movie customers, the Regal on a good weekend selling 10,000, tickets. Together Town Center’s eateries ring up $1.35 million in food sales per month.

Also scheduled to open soon is a Verizon store. About half a dozen tenant spaces are in the final lease-signing stages and Chateau du Lac has pre-leased the 4,500-square-foot Mikuni restaurant. The hotel also includes a 4,250-square-foot, first floor banquet facility with a capacity of 250, plus three smaller boardrooms. Also on the property will be 13,000 square feet of small retail stores and restaurants.

Though approaching completion, Town Center continues evolving with every new phase, said Mansour. The reason? “We know this market. We’ve been in it 30 years,” he noted. “We don’t use outside studies. We don’t believe in them. We’d rather work with people in the area.”

It took a long time coming, but Tony Mansour’s dream of an El Dorado Hills “downtown” is now visible and viable, but at age 71 he’s not ready to call it a career or quits. He’ll retire, he said, “when they carry me off.”