City Center Bishop Ranch Ice Rink 2026: Dates, Prices & New Shops
October 22, 2026
October 22, 2026
On Friday, Nov. 6, City Center Bishop Ranch will open the Kristi Yamaguchi Holiday Ice Rink again, light its tree two weeks later and set Santa up in Alexander Square. The stores you walk past between skating sessions are different. Since July, the two boutiques that had been there since the center opened have closed. A family-owned Bay Area shop has expanded into their spaces, and a global athletic brand has moved into the old Nike storefront on a one-year term.
From opening night through mid-December, City Center's calendar looks like this:
The rink closes for the season on Jan. 3, 2027.
Standard admission is $23 for a 90-minute session, skate rental included. Weekday Value pricing drops that to $16, a 30 percent discount. It applies all day Monday and Tuesday, and to the 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. sessions on Wednesday and Thursday.
That discount is not offered during holiday weeks. Those are the same weeks the rink opens early. From Nov. 23 to 27 and from Dec. 21 to Jan. 3, it runs daily starting at 11 a.m. It is closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas. So the weeks when school is out and the rink has the most sessions are also the weeks when every ticket costs $23.
The regular schedule outside those weeks:
On paper, the cheapest skating of the season is a Monday or Tuesday in the first half of November or the first three weeks of December. A $16 Wednesday matinee at 1 or 3 p.m. works too. The ticketing page recommends buying in advance and notes that hours and schedules can change.
A 90-minute session leaves time to walk the center, and several storefronts on that walk have new tenants since summer.
M by Maggie Rizer and the men's boutique next door, Trader, closed this summer. Both had been at City Center since it opened in 2018. As Bay Area Telegraph reported, the stores were founded by model Maggie Rizer and her husband, Alex Mehran Jr., who is CEO of Sunset Development. When the closure was first reported in August, it came without a final trading date or a reason.
By October, the next tenant was already in. Alys Grace, a women's boutique that already had a City Center store, moved into the adjacent ground-floor spaces the two stores left. Bay Area Telegraph visited and found the store in its new space, with a large grand-opening sign outside.
Alys Grace is a Bay Area company. Husband-and-wife owners Phil and Tiger Bachler opened in Menlo Park in 2008 and have since added stores in Los Altos, San Francisco and San Ramon, for four in all. The name combines Phil's late mother's name with their daughter's middle name. The store carries contemporary womenswear, including Mother, Moussy, Ulla Johnson, ATM and Vince. City Center's directory says it stocks more than 100 brands. Listed hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, at 925-659-3900. If you plan to shop after a skate, note that it closes before the 7 p.m. sessions end.
The center's two founding fashion storefronts now belong to an existing tenant that chose to grow in San Ramon, not to a new brand from outside the area.
The largest new arrival is lululemon. It has about 5,448 square feet in Suite 1400, the former Nike storefront. It opened quietly in late July and held its official opening on Saturday, Aug. 8, with a morning run organized by the Unofficial Run Club.
Bay Area Telegraph reported that the store is technically a pop-up and that City Center had announced it signed on for a full year. Before this, the closest lululemon stores for Tri-Valley shoppers were at Stoneridge Shopping Center in Pleasanton, the San Francisco Premium Outlets in Livermore and Broadway Plaza in Walnut Creek. It joins Athleta and Equinox, which already lean the center toward fitness. On a one-year term, this holiday season is the only one the store is signed for so far.
Rico Rico Taco, an Oakland-born taqueria, opened in late July in Suite 1207. As the Mercury News described it, it serves handmade tortillas and carved al pastor. As of mid-August, Bay Area Telegraph also listed Meyhouse, a contemporary Turkish restaurant and jazz club, as recently opened at the center, and international candy shop Lil Sweet Treat as announced.
One familiar name left Bishop Ranch but stayed in town. Erik's DeliCafe moved instead of closing, and is now at 159 Market Place in San Ramon. The Mercury News reported in September that it is open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and until 7 p.m. on Sunday.
Not everything on the December calendar happens at City Center. The city's Forest Home Farms Historic Park lists a Holiday on the Farm on Dec. 12, with Santa visits, ornament making, a puppet show, entertainment and refreshments. The city's farm events page gives the date without a year, so check it before you plan around it.
Back at City Center, the order of the season is set. The rink opens Nov. 6. The tree is lit Nov. 20. Santa arrives in Alexander Square the next day. $16 weekday tickets are available until the holiday weeks start. Once the rink is open, the new storefronts sit right beside it: Alys Grace in the two former founding boutiques, lululemon in the old Nike space for its first holiday season, and Rico Rico Taco for a meal after skating.
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