Redevelopment around Paradise Valley Mall is moving forward about nine months after mall officials announced a multimillion-dollar renovation of the area.

Facade and landscaping improvements to part of the mall at Tatum Boulevard and Cactus Road and its surrounding six smaller shopping centers was dubbed "Come Back to Your Mall."

Work is to begin in about two weeks on changes at Village Plaza, the center that houses a Sprouts Farmers Market and the Breadcrafters Bakery & Cafe. The center will have new landscaping, parking lot improvements, new stucco and new overhangs.

Westcor, which developed the mall in 1979, plans the first of three phases to change the look and feel of the mall and the smaller centers that surround it. The goal is to create more of a resort feel at the mall and its centers, said Amy Malloy, a development manager at Westcor's Phoenix corporate office.

Landscape changes at the mall are expected to begin later this month. As part of the plan, some of the pine trees will be taken out and replaced with palm trees or other vegetation. Malloy said efforts with the city of Phoenix are being made to salvage any pines that could survive being transplanted.