Retail center set for debut in Summerlin

The Summerlin master-planned community will soon have a new retail center.

Construction on Center Pointe Plaza in Summerlin Centre, the community's emerging town center, is well under way. The shopping center's first anchor tenant, Albertson's, is set to open for business in August with the balance of shops to open later this year.

The plaza is the third retail center to be developed in the community.

A joint venture of The Howard Hughes Corp., developer of Summerlin, and Centerpoint Management L.L.C., the 145,000-square-foot shopping center features a Sav-On, as well as a food court with at least six restaurants, a gas station, and as many as 30 other tenants.

"Center Pointe Plaza is located in the geographic center of Summerlin," said Stew Gibbons, an executive vice president with Hughes Corp.

"It will immediately become a convenient shopping alternative for residents located in the central and southern parts of Summerlin," he added.

The development partners in the center also collaborated on the community's last major retail center, The Trails Village Center.

"Like The Trails Village Center, the shops of Center Pointe Plaza will face inward, the parking lot will be divided by islands of palm trees and the outside of the retail center will be heavily landscaped," Gibbons said. "These and other design guidelines will ensure Center Pointe Plaza will be an attractive addition to the Summerlin community."

The shopping center is 90 percent leased. Confirmed tenants are: Blockbuster Video, Bank of America, Body Heat Tanning, Comfort Dental, Samurai Sam's Teriyaki Grill, Beauty Center Salon and Super Store, Tropical Smoothie Café, Port of Subs, McDonald's, Del Taco, Starbucks, Fazio Cleaners, Post Net, Great Clips, State Farm Insurance, GNC Nutrition Store, Best Buy Blinds, Community Federal Credit Union, Edward Jones Brokerage, and Allstate Insurance.

Being developed as a series of villages in the western valley, the community is home to two Tournament Players Club golf courses, Jack Nicklaus' Bear's Best golf course and five others.

It also features nearly 100 parks, more than 45 miles of trails, 16 schools, houses of worship, business parks, medical centers and nearly 150 model homes.

Single-family homes, townhomes and condominiums are priced from under $100,000 to more than $700,000.

Custom lots from one-quarter acre to three-quarters of an acre are priced from the mid-$100,000s to more than $1 million, and predesigned custom homes are priced from $500,000 to more than $1 million.

Apartments offer monthly rents starting from the $700s.

To visit the home finding center, travel west on Sahara Avenue, past Hualapai Way, to Town Center Drive.

Or, take Interstate 215 to the Sahara exit. The center is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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