Retail pet store giant Petco, which submitted pre-application documents to the city to explore a 12,500 square foot store in the Edison Pointe center in May 2021, is still mulling its decision on whether to enter the Maricopa market.
According to Petco spokesperson Yvonne Tarrab, the city remains on Petco’s radar.
“Everything is still in the very early planning stages,” she said, while confirming that the company is still considering entering this market. “If something happens, we would not be open until sometime in 2023.”
The plans submitted with the pre-application for the center also show five retail pads, each with more than 2,000 square feet in the center, located at the northeast corner of Edison Road and John Wayne Parkway. These spaces could house commercial, retail, or service tenants permitted in the CB-2, or general business zoning.
According to Nathan Steele, the city’s Chief Economic Development Officer, no news is, well, no news.
“The city has not received any further applications from them since that time, so unfortunately I don’t have anything to share regarding their plans,” Steele said.
In an interview in May, Steele cautioned about this kind of delay.
“Because it is a pre-application, it is still very early in the process,” he said at the time. “Sometimes the users or tenants of the spaces are determined before construction, but often the individual spaces get filled during the actual construction process. We’ll know more as this project develops.”
Petco is the nation’s second-largest pet retailer, with more than 1,500 stores across the United States, Mexico and Puerto Rico including 48 in Arizona.
