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I have some exciting updates concerning Forney Marketplace, the 2 million square foot regional shopping center coming to Forney in September of 2010! This project, which is being developed by the Endeavor Real Estate Group, will help shape the future of Forney for the years to come as it brings countless high-end national retailers to Forney while also attracting restaurants, another movie theater and additional entertainment to our town, making Forney “the shopping, dining and entertainment center between Dallas and Tyler”, the goal Endeavor has set for this new shopping center.

Before diving into the updates, I do want to acknowledge the Forney Economic Development Corporation, the Forney City Council and our mayor. They are working tirelessly to attract top-tier development to Forney and ensure that we experience positive, constructive growth. The Forney EDC has done an amazing job getting the word out about Forney to the retail community; at the same time, the city council and the mayor have been very proactive in addressing the updates required to Forney’s infrastructure to support projects of this scale by implementing cutting-edge concepts such as the Transportation Reinvestment Zone (TRZ) that will help provide the roadwork around this development.

When asked to comment about these prospective tenants and the Forney Marketplace project as a whole, Darrell Grooms, mayor of Forney, stated that “[Forney Marketplace] is great for our community, offering excellent shopping and entertainment opportunities for our town”. He also indicated that the city and the developer of the project are hopeful that the announcement of a movie theater in the 3rd phase of the project will help attract numerous well-known, upscale restaurants to the Forney Marketplace, greatly expanding our local options not just for shopping but for entertainment and dining as well.

I’ve obtained more details about each phase of this project and I am very excited to announce the following prospective tenants for phase 1 of the center: Target (130,000 sq. feet), JC Penny (103,500 sq. feet), Belk (96,000 sq. feet), Kohl’s (88,000 sq. feet), Dick’s Sporting Goods (50,000 sq. feet), Best Buy (30,000 sq. feet), Barnes & Noble (28,000 sq. feet) and Ulta (12,000 sq. feet).  These tenants are merely prospective tenants at this time, so this is not an official announcement that these stores will be opening in Forney, however, from what I can tell, Endeavor has worked with each of these tenants in their previous projects, so I believe we will see most, if not all, of these retailers in Forney as part of this project.

Read on for more information about prospective tenants in Phase 2 & 3 of this project, including a movie theater, a grocery store and other anchor stores.

(Read on …)

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The Richardson Jaycees will be hosting a Kid’s Fun Day this Friday, July 4th, from 11AM to 4PM at the Forney Brookshire’s located at 427 Pinson Road. The event will include kid friendly games, face painting and more. Raffle tickets will be sold with prizes including an iPod Shuffle, a Nintendo DS, a DVD player and much more!

Proceeds from the event will go towards the Hannah Kessner fund, the fund that has been setup at a bank here in Forney to help with the medical costs involved with the operation that 4 year old Hannah needs to correct a congential defect in the area where her spinal cord and brain connects. Read more about Hannah’s condition in this story about the fundraiser that was held at Chick-Fil-A for the Kessner family.

A flyer with details about the Kid’s Fun Day is available to download as a PDF; feel free to print it out and distribute it in your office, to your neighbors, etc!

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The Girl Scouts of the United States has long been an organization devoted to empowering girls to become the best they can be - one of the ways girls in Scouts can grow and achieve their goals and dreams is through service to the community.

Forney’s local Girl Scout Service Unit is in the process of planning for their upcoming year. The theme for the year is “Change the World” and the Scouts plan to begin by changing the world right here in Forney. With over 150 girls and dozens of adults eager to get started, they are are looking forward to helping as many organizations and people in Forney as possible, however, they need our help!

They have asked me to put out a request to the Forney community to help them find ways to serve - if you know of any service projects they can get involved with in our community this year, please contact Melanie Davis (mdavis@feccommunications.net) or Jill Culmo (jculmo@flash.net).

Feel free to brainstorm potential projects to recommend to them in this thread in the Forney discussion forum, as well!

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