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| - Mesa Riverview is a shopping area off the 202 Red Mountain. This complex, or rather cluster of complexes, has a labyrinth of driveways that make no sense. Places that exit, but you can't turn. Driveways that end in a high curb. Frustrating. Especially at night, because it isn't very well lit.
The 3 stars are for mediocrity. The stores and restaurants here are the same things that are everywhere, clogging up the retail market, and the skylines: Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Bed Bath & Beyond, Party City, Sally Beauty, Mattress Firm. Bo-ring.
The only saving grace that make this area worthwhile are Bass Pro, Chik-Fil-A, Famous Dave's, Yogi's, and a few new restaurant additions, like sushi. Also coming soon is an Ono Hawaiian. And the kids' fave, but not mine, The Cracker Barrel (see Yelp review).
Lastly, and most frustrating, is the Sloan Park Cubs facility. Getting around is nearly impossible. Impossible and impassable. Blue-haired baseball fans weave their Sevilles and Prii (plural of Prius?) from lane to lane, trying to find out where to go. "Did we buy parking? I don't want the $6 parking lot, when I can have the $5 parking lot!" Herein creates maximum anxiety for me.
If there were interesting, different stores here to make it worth one's while, I may be less hesitant to come here. Until then (and until baseball is over), I'll pass [on the impassable].
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