Neighborhood
Several strip malls, office complexes (including the Bank of America building on the southeast corner of Alma School and Southern, which is Mesa's tallest building at 16 stories), free-standing bank branches, hotels (among them a 260-room Hilton), apartment complexes and power centers are in the immediate surrounding neighborhood, although many of the power centers date from the 1970s and 1980s and are showing signs of age. Several prominent national retailers have stores in these strip malls. A free-standing Target store is located just west of Fiesta Mall (at the southwest corner of Longmore and Southern), which replaced the now-defunct Montgomery Ward. A branch of the Florida-based Italian dining chain, Olive Garden, and a branch of the California-based casual dining chain Mimi's Cafe are located on Southern Avenue just off the main Fiesta Mall parking lot. An In-N-Out Burger restaurant opened in May 2009 and a Longhorn Steakhouse opened on December 11th, 2012 on Alma School Road. Conversely, a Bennigan's restaurant at the northwest corner of Alma School and Southern, across the street from Fiesta Mall, has sat vacant since at least 2005, and will likely never reopen as a Bennigan's after that restaurant chain's Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing in July 2008.
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Famous quotes containing the word neighborhood:
“Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)