Wholesale giant Costco will replace the nearly empty wing at Paradise Valley Mall.

A prominent national retail development company said Friday it is planning a major shopping-dining-entertainment mecca for far east Mesa, the company’s first foray into Arizona.

A prominent national retail development company said Friday it is planning a major shopping-dining-entertainment mecca for far east Mesa, the company’s first foray into Arizona.

LAS VEGAS - Valley-based mall giant Westcor has landed another first-to-the-market retailer.

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January and February always mean changes in the retail scenario. Robinsons-May stores at Fiesta Mall in Mesa and Paradise Valley Mall in east Phoenix have begun massive clearance sales — the beginning of their upcoming end.

Pete Rose, baseball’s all-time hit king best known from the Cincinnati Reds’ “Big Red Machine” days and banned from baseball in 1989 for gambling on baseball including the Reds when he managed them, was scheduled to sign autographs for $70 a pop for a sports memorabilia shop at the Paradise Valley mall on Saturday.

Seven years after selling its minority interest and management of Metrocenter to Simon Property Group, Westcor is back in charge of west Phoenix’s regional mall.

Santa Monica, Calif.-based Macerich Co. is buying Fiesta Mall in Mesa for $135 million, giving its Phoenix-based Westcor division ownership of every traditional regional mall in the East Valley.

Long lines. No parking. Crabby shoppers and whiny kids. The busiest shopping day of the year seems best suited for black belts, Zen masters and anyone with a bottle of ibuprofen.

When plans soured for a shopping center in Apache Junction, it left many people feeling as though they had become victims of fraud.

Paradise Valley Mall, at Cactus Road and Tatum Boulevard, has a few new retailers on board.

Negotiators could announce a deal as soon as today for Fiesta Mall in Mesa.

Shopping center giant Westcor said Thursday it has landed Dillard's as the first anchor store for its long-anticipated 1 million-square-foot regional shopping mall planned for the Paradise Ridge area in northeast Phoenix

Famous Footwear and a wing-full of neighboring stores at Paradise Valley Mall may be making way for famous actors.

The music stopped playing last week at Bookstar in Mesa when the sound system and intercom were disconnected. On Thursday, the store at 1457 W. Southern Ave., was silent even as sales were rung up, and then it closed for good.

The malls of the future are coming to the East Valley. And for some people, they’ll become home — literally. Local developers are building malls in Gilbert that have condos and lofts, and may add them to older malls.

Security and police officers kicked out hordes of teenagers from Desert Ridge Marketplace in northeast Phoenix on Friday, the first night of a policy cracking down on teens who loiter at the popular outdoor mall.

Scottsdale Fashion Square, Mesa’s Fiesta Mall and Paradise Valley Mall will each lose a department store anchor when the Robinsons-May chain is dumped in 2006.

August 12, 2004