DaybyDay
Posts:221
 | | 04/21/2008 5:35 PM |
 Alert | Okay, my husband spoke to the city planner a few minutes ago. An annoucement re: McDonalds is supposed to come in a few days. Walmart is scheduled for the first quarter of 2009 and a movie theatre is to go in on the same site. I guess Walmart was a little upset because Maricopians were saying we wanted a Target instead of Walmart. While this may be true for some, any shopping will be welcome! Ruby Tuesday is still slated to open. While Moutainside Fitness (as we know) as bowed out until a later date. She said to go to http://www.maricopamatters.com/ and complete the survey. That they are looking to this online survey as a source for community needs. | | | |
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DaybyDay
Posts:221
| | 04/21/2008 5:48 PM |
Alert | | I forgot to say that the bridge on Honeycutt is up for bid right now. The bids end on April 30 and then (hopefully0 sometime after that, construction should begin. | | | |
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Colgate
Posts:586
| | 04/22/2008 6:20 PM |
Alert | Yeah I am pumped for Ruby Tuesdays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Would love an Outback Steakhouse or Bone Fish!!!!!!!!! Would love to see a MiMi's Apple Bee's or when the mall comes a Cheesecake Factory!! YUM
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hendersona
Posts:385
| | 04/23/2008 11:07 AM |
Alert | | can't wait for wal-mart | | | |
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maricopamoon
Posts:39
| | 04/23/2008 12:56 PM |
Alert | Posted By DaybyDay on 04/21/2008 5:35 PM Walmart is scheduled for the first quarter of 2009 and a movie theatre is to go in on the same site. I guess Walmart was a little upset because Maricopians were saying we wanted a Target instead of Walmart. While this may be true for some, any shopping will be welcome! I sure wish that Target had paid more attention to the Maricopians saying they preferred a Target...maybe we could have secured one? Oh well, some shopping is better than no shopping I guess. | | | |
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OldTownCopa
Posts:40
| | 04/23/2008 2:40 PM |
Alert | A movie theatre??? Oh, praise all that is holy! Please, please, please build here!! Driving to Ahwatukee every weekend just gets so... old.
It'll end up being Harkins, probably a 12 or 14-plex. | | | |
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WHAT?
Posts:46
| | 04/23/2008 8:40 PM |
Alert | I cant remember the last time I went to the movies. That would be great... | | | |
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drummer72
Posts:2930
| | 04/24/2008 12:01 AM |
Alert | I'll believe it when I see it.
Am I the only one tired of getting our hopes up? | |
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DaybyDay
Posts:221
| | 04/24/2008 10:59 AM |
Alert | | I will believe it when I see it as well...however, this is what we were told on Monday. So, I guess we will see. | | | |
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WAgirl33
Posts:12
| | 04/24/2008 4:19 PM |
Alert | | I want Wal-mart to open so that I don't have to spend 2 hours at Fry's picking up a few things. The more people that go to Wal-mart the nicer it will be at all the other stores in town. | |
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Deftones
Posts:27
| | 04/25/2008 6:29 PM |
Alert | Not going to be a Harkins. It's from an out of town company looking to get into the metro Phoenix market. They have about 6 other theaters planned over the next few years. I can't give the name of the company, but I know who they are as my friend did all the land deals. As for when, it's defintely 2009, shooting for the first half of the year. | | | |
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OldTownCopa
Posts:40
| | 04/25/2008 10:03 PM |
Alert | Not a Harkins? Maricopa is not the right city to use as a test market for a small theatre chain trying to get their foot in the door. The small chains in Arizona either went out of business (Madstone) or got bought out by another company (United Artists). The only small chains that have had relatively small success are the dollar theatres, but even those change ownership every couple of years.
Do they have 6 other theatres planned overall, or just in the metro Phoenix area? Harkins has the majority foothold in the Phoenix market (consistently growing stronger), with AMC bringing up a distant second. Even AMC has conceded the market to Harkins, and will no longer build theatres here. Westgate doesn't really count, since it was going to be a Loews which turned into an AMC when AMC bought them out.
So unless this out of town company is actually another large chain from out of state, I really don't think they know what they're getting into. Phoenix is a very tough market to compete in. | | | |
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eddie
Posts:62
| | 04/25/2008 10:21 PM |
Alert | | I'm voting for AMC! | | | |
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RichTig
Posts:1191
| | 04/26/2008 8:42 AM |
Alert | Its not a AMC. Its a REGAL theatre. | | | |
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Red95King
Posts:6
| | 04/26/2008 3:29 PM |
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RichTig
Posts:1191
| | 04/27/2008 7:32 AM |
Alert | The NW corner will have Home Depot/WalMart and the nE corner will have the Movies/car wash and 8 restaurants. | | | |
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twostep23
Posts:1680
| | 04/27/2008 11:21 AM |
Alert | It's really hard to believe anyone now a days. Kind of like the little boy who cried wolf story. The ones that come on here with BS information has made it really difficult to believe anything anymore. Guess they live off of the reaction that they can get from people. So the "I'll believe it when I see it" attitude unfortunately is very true now. I like it before when we didn't have that and information that was given was correct. Guess those days are gone.    | |
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RichTig
Posts:1191
| | 04/27/2008 11:35 AM |
Alert | I have seen the developer plans as we were looking for business space. Thanks for your input. | | | |
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TonkHunter
Posts:16
| | 04/27/2008 2:29 PM |
Alert | My brother is the head of Training for Harkins theaters...as of last week when I brought it up to him he had heard nothing of any plans for Harkins to open in Maricopa. Harkins is always looking to expand in the valley and they do look at all locations, they are very strategic in their locations so dont rule out Maricopa being a choice for them in the future. I'll keep asking him to keep an ear open. | | | |
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AzSandSlinger
Posts:456
| | 04/27/2008 5:46 PM |
Alert | a Regal Cinema would be great..
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