A retail complex on a gritty stretch of Glendale Boulevard in Echo Park is prepping for a makeover. Dubbed Echo Park Village by owner Veneto Capital Management, the roughly 23,000-square-foot site near Echo Park Lake is slated to bring in a mix of new food and retail tenants once its rehab is completed in the summer.

Beverly Grove-based South Park Group Inc. is taking the lead in recruiting tenants, and has so far landed Clark Street Bread, a bakery that sells loaves at downtown’s Grand Central Market. The new location will give Clark Street a production facility along with a storefront café to sell coffee and baked goods.

South Park Senior Vice President Steven Ravan said the project also is in lease negotiations with a yoga concept and a restaurant group. The next step would be to scout for a bar, juicery, and ice-cream shop. The idea is to create a community retail center to serve the neighbors.

“Right now, there’s not much more than Sunset Boulevard in Echo Park, but I think there’s room to branch into side streets,” he said.

Echo Park Village in recent years was best known as the home of Haitian chicken eatery TiGeorges’, owned by George Laguerre. The restaurant closed in April. In May, Beverly Hills-based Veneto purchased the building for $3.4 million from Monryheng Inc. It soon began stripping away the aging facades and interiors, leaving brick walls and vaulted bow-truss ceilings. Although a long-standing Thai restaurant plans to remain, most of the other tenants have already cleared out.