The owner of Boston’s South Bay Center is proposing to build a mixed-use "town center" including a hotel, cinema, retail and housing on an adjacent 10-acre site.

Edens wants to build the transit-oriented project on six parcels currently occupied by a concrete plant, office buildings and retail and parking lots. The site is located along Boston and Enterprise streets directly south of the existing shopping plaza, which is anchored by Best Buy and Marshalls.

Edens has owned the South Bay Center along I-93 since 1998 and expanded the outdoor shopping plaza to its current 540,000 square feet in 2005.

The proposal calls for construction of several six-story buildings including 115,000 square feet of commercial and retail space, a 65,000-square-foot movie theater, a 150- to 200-room hotel, up to 500 multifamily housing units and two parking garages. In a filing with the Boston Redevelopment Authority, land-use consultants Fort Point Assoc. said Edens will submit a detailed application within 60 days.

Edens, which has a regional office in Boston, owns approximately 100 shopping centers on the East Coast.