Riverview's Theater District criticized

Well, it looks like there are some people upset about the slow going over at the Riverview theater district. Clearly, its not at the same level at the Tempe Marketplace, and in fact, some of the businesses have already closed in the area. It looks like they are taking some steps to make the place more lively.

As we suspected, Mattas is indeed coming to Riverview. It will be interesting to see how they configure the place, especially since they tried an "on the go" type concept a few years back at Fiesta Mall and it failed. Hopefully, it will be more of a sitdown type establishment. One bit of advice to the Matta family: perhaps its time to hire someone under 80 years old to be a waitress.

It also says that a Toby Keith bar is coming to the area. Great, now, they only need 2 or 3 more restaurants to match the central intersection of Tempe Marketplace's "District."

Its clear that the Theater district needs some work to be done, but as I have mentioned before, its not really a fair comparison, since Riverview also has the dealerships, the hotel, and the business stuff that is coming in. So, let's hope that the rhetoric is true and the theater district is only behind schedule and that its not always going to be floundering.

I just hope that they remember that they promised a regional destination, and right now, there is certainly still a lot of work to do.