One dusty lot near Walmart and Bahama Bucks is finally showing signs of life.
The gradual construction process started last week at the upcoming Legacy at Porter shopping center, 17571 N. Porter Road, after developers obtained a commercial on-site improvement permit. So far, crews have been seen putting up fencing and moving dirt.
The view has been good news for Senita entrepreneur Jason Martin, who will open Orlie’s Taproom at the shopping center.
“It’s great, it kind of seems more like a reality now,” he told InMaricopa. After spending years dreaming up the craft beer bar, he publicly announced the creation of Orlie’s last year.
The taproom will occupy roughly 1,500 square feet, with indoor and outdoor seating. Martin previously told InMaricopa he hopes to incorporate a commercial-style garage door to open onto the patio “on nice days.”
Developers told Martin construction on the building shells could take up to eight months, putting tenant buildouts on track for early to mid-2027 openings.
Martin said he is hoping to be serving up cold brews by this time next year.
“I’ve been working on this for three years now, so it’s exciting. There were a lot of times I felt like it may never happen,” he said.
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Congratulations, Jason! Looking forward to it!
Why another Goodwill? Is it because the area will be surrounded by apartments? Isn’t there a Goodwill in the city already?
Goodwill isn’t for “the poors” anymore, it’s for bored, greedy housewives who want to do a side hustle because they saw “haul” videos on TikTok and now they’ve driven prices up so people who actually NEED stuff from Goodwill can no longer afford it now.
And your belief that people who live in apartments are somehow poor, just know that renting an apartment costs several hundred dollars MORE per month as opposed to having a mortgage these days.
When I lived in Chandler ten years ago, rent for a one bedroom, 800sf apartment was $1600/mo. Bought a house here for $160k in 2017, the mortgage is around 800 bucks and I don’t have to deal with annual rent increases, noisy neighbors stomping upstairs, shoddy building management, etc.
The poors do live in apartments. Out here in Maricopa there is a lot of government assisted housing, aka poor people housing. Also your comparison from a Chandler apartment to a house way out in Maricopa doesn’t even make sense. I would guess apartments were even cheaper out in Maricopa at the time you move out here. A 160k house in 2017? Are you living in a box behind Circle K?
A 160k house in 2017 was the actually the average listing price around here, then it shot up to 400k in 2018/19, now prices are hovering around 300k-ish because nobody is buying or selling anything what with the economy being a giant question mark.
Also we didn’t have apartments in Maricopa in 2017, and if we did it still would’ve made more sense to buy a house rather than rent an apartment because it still would’ve been cheaper, especially with the Pathway to Purchase that was being offered at the time.
For the record, my house is around 2000sf, 3bed/2ba, nowhere near a Circle K. We should’ve shopped around more and gotten more land and less house tbh
love exploring the goodwill stores for my collectibles, snap-on tools and amazon open box items, couple more would be nice!
Same ol stuff being built here, Chipotle, Goodwill and Jersey Mike? Really? We have them already