By Ken Sain | Arizonan
The City of Chandler is selling a valuable downtown location that it hopes will end up being one of the first “food halls” in Arizona, if not the first.
The developer said a food hall is not a food court, but will have some similarities.
Once built, the two-story structure would house between six and 12 different restaurants. The building would be open-air on two sides.
The property the city is selling is .36 acres at the southwest corner of Chicago and Oregon streets for $200,000 to JEMBJACD, LLC, the proposed developer.
The sides that are open would face Chicago and Oregon while the two closed sides would face residential areas to the south and west.
So what is a food hall and how is it different from a food court?
“It’s not what you’d see in a typical mall,” said Kim Moyers, the city’s cultural development director. “It is going to be six to 12 different restaurants, but they’ll be very unique and local” and “would be more appropriate for the downtown.”
