The Shops at Lake Havasu, Wolford Development, Inc. will bring approximately 740,000 square feet of fashion, food and fun to its 105-acre site on the north end of town.
"The Shops at Lake Havasu will offer customers a unique shopping environment. The shopping complex will have a warm, inviting open-air environment with landscaping and a variety of eye-catching architectural elements. In addition to the lifestyle center, the 105-acre site will provide seven outparcels for development by individual businesses as well as an 18-acre site for future development.
New to Lake Havasu is Dillard???s measuring approximately 100,000 square feet. Dillard???s Inc. ranks among the nation???s largest fashion apparel and home furnishings retailers with annual revenues exceeding $7.7 billion. Also J.C. Penney is now at the Shops at Lake Havasu and tripling the size of its current store in the market. The new store, at more than 102,000 square feet, will incorporate J.C. Penney???s latest format and design features to create an easy and exciting place for customers to experience the store???s outstanding selection of high-quality, fashion-right merchandise at smart prices.
The final anchor position is filled by a new 201,821 square foot Wal-Mart Supercenter.
The new Supercenter features such as wider aisles, stained concrete flooring throughout most of the store, faux wood flooring in the apparel areas, neutral colors and skylights as well as the expanded merchandise selection. As a one-stop shopping experience, the Supercenter offers 36 general merchandise departments as well as a full line of groceries including a bakery, a delicatessen, a frozen food section and meat, dairy and fresh produce sections."
Bucky Wolford, president and CEO, said, ???The Lake Havasu ??? Kingman market is extremely under served and we???re pleased to finally be bringing this project to this retail parched market. There is not another project of this magnitude and with this type of regional drawing power within 150 miles. The commitment of our anchors alone proves out the pent-up demand and untapped retail sales which are now migrating outside the area.???
When completed, The Shops at Lake Havasu will contain over 70 retailers and restaurants in a ???Main Street??? town-center setting which will redefine the shopping pattern of Arizona???s ???west coast.??? Roughly a 2 ??-3-hour drive between Las Vegas and Phoenix, The Shops at Lake Havasu will be the only regional center in the area.