94: THE YEAR IN REVIEW : Valley arts and entertainment rebound after a shaky start : In With the New : CityWalk Gets Ready to Rock

Arecent flurry of additions to CityWalk appears to be slowing, but the Universal City mall has saved the biggest addition for last.

Next month, workers will begin construction of a Hard Rock Cafe at the eastern end of the hilltop promenade. The two-story, 18,000-square-foot restaurant will be the largest in the well-known chain.

“It’s not going to look like any other Hard Rock,” said Jeff Wagner, vice president of marketing. “The architect calls it ‘Jeffersonian traditionalism,’ whatever that means. I can tell you that the complex has an 85-foot domed ceiling. It has a balcony and a patio, too.”

The trademark Cadillac bar has not been forsaken. Nor have the autographed guitars that line the walls. At CityWalk, such memorabilia will come mainly from current bands like Pearl Jam.

The cafe, scheduled to open by Nov. 1, will take its place among two other musical newcomers. The Country Star Hollywood restaurant opened at the opposite end of the promenade in August, followed closely B. B. King’s Blues Club.

Wagner hopes that the newest Hard Rock Cafe will attract CityWalk’s steady clientele of tourists as well as those closer to home.

“A lot of Valley residents just don’t make it into the city to go to the Hard Rock,” he said. “We want to give them the chance.”