The old Sears wing is gone. In its place, a 14,000-square-foot liquor store with a golf simulator has been serving neighbors for months. That single swap tells you what the Cactus and Tatum intersection has become, and what it is still becoming through the rest of 2026.
For Cactus Corridor homeowners, the practical story of the PV redevelopment is not the 400-unit apartment building or the office square footage. It is the fact that a walkable dining district is filling in across a 100-acre footprint you have been driving past your entire time in the neighborhood. The short version: eleven food and beverage tenants are already open, four more are landing this year, and RED Development is still hunting for a seafood house and a breakfast anchor to close the gaps.
Here is where things stand as of summer 2026, and what to actually expect from each new arrival.
Open now, worth a first (or second) look
Since the first tenants unlocked their doors in fall 2024, the pace has been steady rather than showy. The current lineup around Cactus Road and Tatum Boulevard reads like this:
| Concept | What it is | Why locals go |
|---|---|---|
| Whole Foods Market | Relocated Phoenix flagship, 50,000+ sq ft | Replaces the smaller Shea and Tatum store that stood for 22 years |
| Trevor's Liquor | 14,000 sq ft in the former Sears Auto Center | Boutique bottle shop with a full bar, pizzeria, golf simulator, cigar lounge, dog-friendly patio |
| Flower Child | Fast-casual healthy | Weeknight go-to when nobody wants to cook |
| Blanco Reserva Cocina + Cantina | Modern Mexican | Sit-down dinner without the Old Town parking |
| The Melt | Grilled cheese and comfort | Kid-friendly lunch stop |
| Velvet Taco (Old Town) | Precursor to the coming PV location | Global-inspired tacos, cubano and tikka masala among them |
The Whole Foods move deserves a longer look. The new store is more than double the old footprint and stocks upwards of 330 items grown or made in Arizona, including produce from Duncan Family Farms, milk from Danzeisen Dairy, and flour from Hayden Flour Mills. If you were making the drive to the Scottsdale location for local dairy and stone-milled flour, you can stop.
Trevor's is the tenant that has quietly rewired weekend habits along the corridor. It functions less like a liquor store and more like a lounge with retail attached. The golf simulator books up on Friday nights. The patio takes reservations. It is the kind of concept a neighborhood usually has to drive twenty minutes to reach, and it opened inside the shell of the building where you used to get an oil change.
The four new arrivals landing in 2026
This is the group that will change the calendar. Each is dated, each has a signed lease, and each brings something the corridor did not previously have inside a five-minute drive.
Cala is the second location of the Mediterranean concept that Clive Collective launched inside Senna House Hotel Scottsdale in 2022. The PV outpost is set for 4596 E. Cactus Road, Suite 105, opening in 2026. Cala runs at the upscale end of the mix here, and its arrival gives the development its first genuine date-night reservation.
The Vig is joining as its eighth valley location, and this build is the most design-forward of the group. Genuine Concepts brought in Artie A. Vigil III of AV3 design studio to reference the mall's 1978 origins through mid-century post-and-beam framing, adobe brick sourced from one of Arizona's last remaining adobe suppliers, dark woods, copper, and floor-to-ceiling glazing. Chef Jeremy Pacheco is running the menu. The plan is daily lunch and dinner service, weekend brunch, and a happy hour running 3 to 6 p.m. Opening is slated for 2026.
Too Sweet Cakes arrives in the second quarter of 2026 in a 1,700-square-foot space just north of Cala. Owner Shelbi Geyer opened the original bakery in Bend, Oregon, in 2017, then added a Gilbert shop and a Phoenix pick-up spot. The PV location has a walk-up window for coffee, an open decorating bench visible from the counter, and a menu that runs from breakfast sandwiches through cronuts that take three days and 100 layers of pastry to build.
Velvet Taco is opening a second Arizona location under 2,000 square feet after debuting in Old Town Scottsdale in November 2025.
Harry & Izzy's is the outlier. The upscale grill from Indianapolis is targeting summer 2026 for its first Arizona location, bringing steak, shrimp cocktail, and a supper-club register that the corridor has not had since Rita's Cantina moved.
What is still being hunted
RED Development's Mike Kallner has said publicly that the tenant mix is not finished. The team is actively pursuing a seafood-focused restaurant and a dedicated breakfast concept for the site. Neither has been announced.
If you are keeping mental score, that leaves two obvious slots open: an oyster and raw-bar concept, and a morning operator strong enough to replace the coffee-and-eggs trip most Cactus Corridor households currently make toward Shea. When those two land, the walkable radius around Cactus and Tatum will cover breakfast, lunch, coffee, cocktails, dinner, and a nightcap without leaving the development.
Why this matters for the corridor specifically
Zoom out from the tenant list. The point is not that PV has good restaurants coming. The point is where they are opening.
The Cactus Corridor has always been a residential-first pocket. Grocery runs went to Shea. Real dinners went to Old Town, Kierland, or the Biltmore. Coffee and pastries were a car trip. The redevelopment is collapsing that geography by concentrating retail, dining, and daily-goods density inside a single 100-acre parcel that most corridor residents already pass on their commute. Whole Foods, Trevor's, and Flower Child alone have already shifted the weekly errand loop. Cala, The Vig, and Harry & Izzy's will shift the weekend one.
Two consequences follow, and both are worth understanding if you own here.
The first is functional. Households that bought in the Cactus Corridor for lot size and quiet streets historically accepted a trade-off on walkability. That trade-off is narrowing block by block as PV builds out. The intersection now behaves more like a small town center than a mall replacement.
The second is what happens to homes in the closest half-mile ring. Proximity to a curated retail and dining node is one of the more durable location premiums in metro Phoenix, and it tends to show up in resale conversations rather than in list-price math. Buyers touring your street in 2027 will hear "walk to PV" as part of the address, in a way they could not have in 2023.
A weekend routine that did not exist two years ago
Try this as a mental test. Pick a Saturday next winter. Coffee and a cronut at Too Sweet Cakes. Grocery pass through Whole Foods, focused on the Arizona shelves. Lunch at Flower Child or The Melt depending on who is with you. Late-afternoon bourbon and a nine-hole simulator round at Trevor's. Dinner at Cala or The Vig, depending on whether you want Mediterranean or the design-forward tavern build. Nightcap at Blanco Reserva.
That is one intersection. That is your neighborhood. Two years ago, that same day required at least three separate drives and probably a valet ticket.
A quick note on what PV is and is not
PV, the development, sits inside the city of Phoenix at the northern edge of the corridor. The Town of Paradise Valley proper is a separate municipality south and west of Camelback. The naming can be confusing in listings and search results, so when you see "PV" tagged on a new opening this year, assume the reference is to the 100-acre redevelopment at Cactus and Tatum unless the address says Lincoln Drive.
The tenant announcements will keep coming. Whether the seafood house lands first or the breakfast operator does will shape which end of the corridor feels the change most. Either way, the intersection you have been driving through for years is now the reason people ask about the neighborhood.
If you are weighing what your Cactus Corridor home is worth as this district fills in, or eyeing a move into the ring closest to the new build-out, the team at Jonny West Real Estate tracks how these local shifts land in resale. Schedule a free consultation and we will walk you through what it means for your address specifically.
