Gilbert, AZ guide
Macy's, Dillard's, a 16-screen Harkins theater and 1.2 million square feet of retail — SanTan Village opened in 2007 and became the retail anchor of a much larger planned development. Here's the real story and what it means for the neighborhoods around it.
SanTan Village is an open-air "lifestyle center" that opened on October 26, 2007, with 1.2 million square feet of gross leasable retail area — the anchor of a much larger planned development covering roughly 500 acres and, eventually, some 3 million square feet of mixed-use space. It opened right at the edge of the 2007–2008 national financial downturn, which makes its long-term staying power in Gilbert's retail landscape all the more notable.
SanTan Village's anchor tenants include Macy's, Dillard's, DICK'S Sporting Goods and Best Buy, along with a 16-screen Harkins Theatres — a genuinely full-scale regional retail and entertainment lineup, not a smaller neighborhood strip center.
SanTan Village was developed by Westcor — notably, its final mall project before the company's later transition — and is now owned by Macerich, one of the larger publicly traded mall and retail-center operators in the country.
Having opened in 2007, SanTan Village has now anchored Gilbert's retail core for close to two decades — long enough that an entire generation of Gilbert homeowners has never known the surrounding area without it. That kind of longevity matters for a retail anchor: it's shaped where nearby residential and commercial development has clustered ever since, from restaurants and smaller retail filling in around the original anchors to residential growth in the surrounding neighborhoods drawn by the convenience of a major shopping and dining district nearby.
A mature, still-expanding retail center like SanTan Village generates its own steady renovation and remodel cycle — individual storefronts refresh, restaurants change hands and rebuild interiors, and outparcel buildings around the center's edges get added or renovated as demand shifts. For business owners and commercial property managers in and around the SanTan Village corridor, that means construction and remodel debris is a near-constant, if rotating, presence in the area, distinct from the one-time building boom of a brand-new development.
The area surrounding SanTan Village has grown alongside Gilbert's broader population boom, and homes in the surrounding neighborhoods regularly go through their own renovation and remodel cycles as they change hands or get updated by long-time owners. Proximity to a major retail and dining district is a genuine draw for both new buyers and existing owners investing in updates, which keeps residential renovation debris a steady presence in the neighborhoods immediately around the center, not just inside it.
Delivering to a commercial site in or near SanTan Village comes with its own logistics — parking-lot traffic, loading-dock access, and coordination with a property manager or neighboring tenants who still need normal customer and delivery access during your project. We plan around all of that as a matter of course. Whether you're renovating a storefront inside the center, working on an outparcel building nearby, or renovating a home in one of the surrounding neighborhoods, call and describe the site and we'll work out access and placement before delivery day.
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October 26, 2007, with 1.2 million square feet of gross leasable retail area as the anchor of a planned roughly 500-acre, eventual 3-million-square-foot mixed-use development.
Macy's, Dillard's, DICK'S Sporting Goods and Best Buy, along with a 16-screen Harkins Theatres.
Macerich currently owns the property. It was originally developed by Westcor, as that company's final mall project before its later transition.
Yes — call (480) 400-6148 and describe the site, including any parking-lot or loading-dock access considerations, and we'll plan delivery and placement around it.
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