Common Bond Development Group announced on August 13, 2026, that a Sprouts Farmers Market will anchor a new grocery-anchored shopping center at Estrella Parkway and North Lake in the Estrella master-planned community in Goodyear, Arizona. The project is a partnership with Harvard Investments, Estrella’s master developer, and the City of Goodyear, and was explicitly framed as a response to a retail void long experienced by the community’s residents.
Project by the Numbers: Phase 1, Phase 2, and the Full Vision
Phase 1 will total approximately 35,224 square feet. That breaks down to a 23,024 SF Sprouts Farmers Market, 9,200 SF of inline retail space designated as Shops A, and a 3,000 SF standalone pad. A future Phase 2 along the lake is planned to add between 16,000 and 20,000 SF of restaurant and retail space, bringing the full project to approximately 51,000 to 55,000 square feet. No tenants for the inline retail or pad space have been announced as of August 13, 2026, and no leasing broker has been publicly named. The project is currently in its initial leasing phase, targeting service-oriented tenants, local favorites, and regional brands.
Where It’s Going: Estrella Parkway at North Lake
The shopping center will sit at Estrella Parkway and North Lake, adjacent to the Yacht Club of Estrella and the Starpointe Residents’ Club. Estrella’s extensive path network — more than 65 miles of trails and paths threading through the community — means residents in nearby neighborhoods will have a genuine walkable or bikeable route to the store. That is not a common amenity in a Valley market built predominantly around the automobile.
The Retail Void Explained: Why Residents Have Waited
Estrella is a 20,000-acre master-planned community roughly 17 miles west of downtown Phoenix, home to more than 23,000 residents, 500-plus acres of parks, 72 acres of lakes, and a Nicklaus-design championship golf course. The community’s resort-level amenity profile has long outpaced its retail infrastructure. Roger Theis, Vice President of Communities at Harvard Investments, described the Sprouts project as “an important anchor of our long-term vision for North Lake.” The City of Goodyear’s announcement explicitly identified filling a retail void as a primary objective of the partnership.
For residents, the practical reality until this project opens is unchanged: specialty and organic groceries require a drive out of the community. The Q1 2027 groundbreaking target means that wait continues for at least another year to 18 months beyond announcement.
Sprouts Farmers Market stores lead with a produce-forward format designed around fresh and organic offerings. The Estrella location will span 23,024 square feet.
Who Is Building It: Common Bond Development Group
Common Bond Development Group was founded in 2014 by Brian Frakes, who began his development career at Westcor Partners in 1999. In 2002 he joined the Westcor senior partners to form WDP Partners, where he played an active role in identifying, acquiring, entitling, and managing more than eight million square feet of regional, neighborhood, specialty, and power shopping centers in Arizona. Common Bond’s completed Arizona portfolio includes the Global Ambassador hotel in Phoenix, The Park at 83 in Peoria, The Plant in Chandler — a Sprouts-anchored center completed in April 2016 — and the Ironwood shopping center in Queen Creek, completed in December 2018.
The Estrella announcement follows directly from Common Bond’s work at Eastmark in Mesa, where the firm broke ground on EastMarket — also Sprouts-anchored — with Sprouts expected to open there in Q4 2026. The Eastmark project serves as a working proof of concept for the Estrella timeline and delivery quality: Common Bond has built this exact product type before, with the same anchor tenant, in a comparable master-planned community setting.
For context on anchor sizing: The Plant in Chandler features a 28,800 SF Sprouts, making the Estrella store at 23,024 SF a smaller-format location — consistent with Sprouts’ continued expansion into neighborhood-scale centers rather than destination formats.
The Maritime Design: Sail Masts, Composite Wood, and a Lakeside Sense of Place
Suite 6 Architecture + Planning handled the project’s overall design concept and incorporated a maritime theme — composite wood cladding and vertical steel accents intended to evoke sail masts — appropriate to the lakeside location. Three additional firms round out the design team: Cuhaci Peterson is responsible for the Sprouts building design specifically, PHNX Design is handling Shops A, and GK Flanigan is the landscape architect.
What Sprouts Anchors Actually Attract — and What the Phase 2 Vision Signals
Goodyear Mayor Joe Pizzillo said the Sprouts store is “more than a new grocery store” and that it will help attract more restaurants and neighborhood services, creating new investment and job opportunities. That framing aligns with how grocery-anchored retail functions in practice: a committed anchor tenant de-risks the center for smaller service and dining tenants who need the traffic a grocer generates. The planned Phase 2 lakeside restaurant and retail component — 16,000 to 20,000 SF — is the mechanism by which the project could develop into something closer to a genuine town center node for North Lake.
Timeline: What Happens Next
Common Bond is targeting a Q1 2027 groundbreaking. No construction completion date or Sprouts opening date has been announced. The leasing process for inline retail and pad space is underway. Residents and prospective buyers watching this project should expect the groundbreaking announcement to be the next material milestone, followed by a Sprouts opening date disclosure closer to construction completion.