Editor’s Pick: Park Central can thrive again


Park Central was once a retail jewel in the desert, and it’s poised to become one again.

Granted it won’t be a retail mecca. Midtown Phoenix seems to have surpassed the need for a shopping mall, and the retail industry as a whole is not rallying around the idea of more brick-and-mortar shops.

Instead the Plaza Cos. and Holualoa Cos. are about halfway through a $57 million project to revitalize the property at Central Avenue and Earll Drive. The idea is to transform it into a mixed-use project…

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