Construction crews have broken ground on a Wal-Mart SuperCenter, which will become part of Gilbert’s expansive retail corridor along San Tan segment of Loop 202 now being built across the south East Valley.

Visit Berge Ford at US60 and Mesa Drive for a look at the American icon, the Shelby GT Mustang, or have your Ford truck "lifted" and experience the Berge Ford difference. And coming soon is the state-of-the-art SanTan Motorplex near the San Tan Freeway and Val Vista in Gilbert.

Follow the future San Tan Freeway’s path from U.S. 60 as it makes its way across the south East Valley and a spine of commerce begins to take shape among expanses of desert, farmland, grazing sheep and dairies.

The arrival of Ulta, Designer Shoe Warehouse and Circuit City are just the beginning of SanTan Village, an expansive shopping area and outdoor regional mall that will ultimately rival Chandler Fashion Center.

The arrival of Ulta, Designer Shoe Warehouse and Circuit City are just the beginning of SanTan Village, an expansive shopping area and outdoor regional mall that will ultimately rival Chandler Fashion Center in size and scope.

The arrival of Ulta, Designer Shoe Warehouse and Circuit City are just the beginning of SanTan Village, an expansive shopping area and outdoor regional mall that will ultimately rival Chandler Fashion Center in size and scope.

SanTan Village, a planned 3 million square-foot mixed-use development near Williamsfield Road and the Loop 202 freeway in Gilbert, is less than a year from opening a 1.2 million square-foot “lifestyle center.”

Gilbert officials say Copper Point Business Park, a 98,000-square-foot complex off Loop 202’s Santan Freeway at Val Vista Drive, is an example of how development is following the highway.

A Boston-based developer wants to build another major mixed-use development along the Santan Freeway. The Promenade at San Tan will encompass 400,000 square feet of office, restaurant and retail space at the southeast corner of Val Vista Drive and Williams Field Road.

A developer wants to build a community consisting of 692 upscale condos, apartments or townhouses with businesses in SanTan Village shopping center’s backyard.

Gilbert Mayor Steve Berman drove to a gala celebrating the town’s newest car dealer in an old Dodge Intrepid on Wednesday.

Almost two dozen new retailers will occupy space in Gilbert’s SanTan Village, an open-air mall and lifestyle center that will be bigger than Chandler Fashion Center, officials announced Thursday.

When SanTan Village opened the doors on 18 buildings arranged around its own street grid last year, it wasn't a sure bet that the local and national economy would go bad.

SanTan Motorplex near the Loop 202 and Val Vista Drive in Gilbert is welcoming two newcomers.

Gilbert is ready to welcome its first freeway construction project.

Following a delay, the owner of a Famous Dave’s Legendary Pit Bar-B-Que is gearing up to open April 12 at Gilbert’s SanTan Village, and he plans to hire 130 workers. John Erlandson, managing partner of the chain’s owner, Desert Ribs LLC, said plans were put on hold for about a year due to the poor economy.

Harkins Theatres opened a theater at SanTan Village last week. The theater is the first of more than 100 businesses that will open at the 1.2 million square-foot shopping center along Loop 202’s Santan Freeway in Gilbert.

SanTan Village Marketplace will get Arizona’s first Brio Tuscan Grille.

A bevy of new businesses opened Thursday at SanTan Village shopping center at Williams Field Road and Loop 202 in Gilbert.

A Chandler man was killed in a two-vehicle crash in the East Valley on Thursday morning.

Drivers anxious for a new freeway in the far East Valley can get a glimpse Tuesday of plans for the proposed state Route 802.

As the Arizona Department of Transportation continues its research for the future Williams Gateway Freeway, the state will have to debate which motorists and commuters should receive the most benefit, which economic centers should take priority, and how to address the negative impacts for existing homeowners and businesses that already straddle potential routes.

Amid cheers and claps from a crowd of about 70 people, the Chandler City Council stood its ground Thursday night against lowering sound walls from 20 to 14 feet planned along the San Tan Freeway.

Mesa will offer its own money to advance construction of the Route 802 freeway by four years, allowing work to begin in 2012. The new timeline could shave roughly $39 million of the freeway’s cost.