A view inside the Aztec Theatre in San Antonio, Texas. Melchor and Pedro Marques plan to replicate some of the popular Latino-themed venue’s features at a new entertainment center in Phoenix, Arizona. (Facebook Photo/The Aztec Theatre)
By Kevin Stone | KTAR
The owners of a Spanish-language Valley radio station unveiled ambitious plans to convert a shuttered Sears department store in west Phoenix into a Latino entertainment center.
Brothers Melchor and Pedro Marques purchased the vacant Desert Sky Mall anchor building for $7.13 million, real estate agency NAI Horizon, which represented the buyers, announced Wednesday.
Sears closed up shop at the 120,000-foot space near Thomas Road and 75th Avenue in 2018.