Yes, Sprouts Farmers Market is coming to Estrella. Common Bond Development Group announced on August 13, 2026, that it will build a Sprouts-anchored shopping center on Estrella Parkway at North Lake in Goodyear. Groundbreaking is targeted for the first quarter of 2027. No opening date has been announced yet.
If you live in Estrella, this is the errand you’ve been making every week
Right now, getting organic produce or specialty groceries from inside Estrella means getting in the car and leaving. The community has resort-level amenities — more than five hundred acres of parks, seventy-two acres of lakes, a championship golf course — but no nearby specialty grocer. For more than twenty-three thousand residents, that gap is a real, weekly inconvenience.
Estrella also has more than sixty-five miles of paths. The new Sprouts will sit on Estrella Parkway at North Lake, next to the Yacht Club of Estrella and the Starpointe Residents’ Club. For many households, that is bikeable or walkable distance. That matters in a community built for it.
Goodyear Mayor Joe Pizzillo said the store is “more than a new grocery store” and that it will help attract restaurants and neighborhood services, creating jobs and new investment. Harvard Investments Vice President Roger Theis called it “an important anchor of our long-term vision for North Lake.” The partnership behind the project — Common Bond, the City of Goodyear, and Harvard Investments — explicitly described the project as built to fill a retail void. That is not promotional language. It is an acknowledgment of something residents have lived with for years.
For homeowners, grocery-anchored retail inside a master-planned community is a well-established value signal. It tells buyers the community is maturing and that daily errands do not require leaving. That kind of convenience compounds over time.
Project by the numbers: Phase 1, Phase 2, and the full vision
Phase 1 totals about 35,224 square feet. That breaks down into a 23,024-square-foot Sprouts Farmers Market, 9,200 square feet of inline retail space called Shops A, and a 3,000-square-foot standalone pad.
A second phase is planned along the lake. It would add another 16,000 to 20,000 square feet of restaurant and retail space. That brings the full project to roughly 51,000 to 55,000 square feet when complete.
No tenants for the inline shops or the pad have been announced as of August 13, 2026. Common Bond says it is targeting a mix of service-oriented tenants, local favorites, and regional brands. No leasing broker has been publicly named for the project.
A Sprouts Farmers Market interior. The Estrella store will span 23,024 square feet. (InsideTheValley)
The maritime design: sail masts, wood cladding, and a sense of place
Suite 6 Architecture + Planning completed the initial design. The theme is maritime. The buildings use composite wood cladding and vertical steel accents shaped to mimic sail masts — a deliberate nod to the North Lake setting next door.
Three other firms round out the design team. Cuhaci Peterson is handling the Sprouts building design. PHNX Design is responsible for Shops A. GK Flanigan is the landscape architect. The result is a center designed to feel like it belongs to a lakeside community rather than a standard strip center dropped in anywhere.
Who is Common Bond, and why does the Eastmark project matter here
Common Bond Development Group was founded in 2014 by Brian Frakes. Before starting Common Bond, Frakes spent years at Westcor Partners beginning in 1999. In 2002 he joined Westcor senior partners to form WDP Partners, where he worked on more than eight million square feet of retail centers across Arizona.
Common Bond’s portfolio includes the Global Ambassador hotel in Phoenix, The Park at 83 in Peoria, and The Plant in Chandler — a Sprouts-anchored center at Gilbert Road and Ocotillo Road completed in April 2016. The Plant features a 28,800-square-foot Sprouts, making the Estrella store a smaller-format location by comparison. Common Bond also completed the Ironwood shopping center in Queen Creek in December 2018, anchored by a 63,000-square-foot Safeway.
The most useful precedent for Estrella is EastMarket at Eastmark in Mesa. Common Bond broke ground on that Sprouts-anchored center and has Sprouts opening there in Q4 2026. Estrella is a direct follow-on project. That means Common Bond has already worked through the approvals, the design process, and the construction logistics for this exact format. Estrella residents are not waiting on a first-time developer to figure things out.
Common Bond also has The Shops at Halo Vista under development in North Phoenix. InsideTheValley covered the Halo Vista groundbreaking in the TSMC corridor earlier this year.
What Sprouts-anchored centers actually attract
A grocery anchor does more than sell produce. It drives foot traffic that makes the surrounding shops viable. Service tenants — salons, fitness studios, urgent care — follow a grocer because the grocer brings daily visits. Dining pads follow the same traffic logic.
The Phase 2 lakeside restaurant and retail space signals that Common Bond and Harvard Investments are planning for exactly that layering effect. A center that starts with Sprouts and ends with lakeside dining is a town-center outcome, not just a grocery run.
For the broader West Valley, the project adds to a commercial growth corridor that validates continued residential absorption in Goodyear, one of Arizona’s fastest-growing cities.
Q1 2027 groundbreaking — what comes next
Construction is targeted to start in the first quarter of 2027. That is the only confirmed milestone. No opening date for the Sprouts or any other tenant has been announced. Given that Common Bond’s Eastmark Sprouts is opening in Q4 2026 under the same developer and a similar format, the construction timeline for Estrella will likely be clearer once the Eastmark store opens and any lessons from that build are applied here.
Leasing for the inline shops and the pad is ongoing. When tenants are announced, the picture of what daily life at the center looks like will sharpen considerably. Until then, the groundbreaking date is the number to watch.
