Arizona
Japanese grocery store opening 1st Arizona location. What to know
Taiwanese restaurants serving TSMC workers in Phoenix
The north Phoenix area now boasts three Taiwanese restaurants, opened within the last year specifically to cater to new arrivals at the TSMC factory.
The Republic
A specialty Japanese grocery store will open its first location outside of California in north Phoenix.
In November 2026, Osaka Marketplace will move into the shopping plaza at the intersection of Union Hills Drive and Seventh Street and begin construction, said Julia Li, the plaza’s property manager.
Founded in the Bay Area in 2021, Osaka Marketplace specializes in Japanese ingredients and prepared food. The 35,000-square-foot space will feature a fresh produce section, a sushi counter and a food court. The grocery store is expected to open in the second half of 2027.
“We’re really excited,” Li said. “They’re great.”
What is Osaka Marketplace?
Osaka Marketplace has two locations in the Bay Area, with plans to open a third in fall 2026. Founder Kazuhiro Takeda, a former grocery executive in Japan, has said that he wants the store to feel like “a small trip to Japan.”
Osaka Marketplace is especially known for its sushi. It imports fish from Japan and offers a wide variety of sashimi, including salmon, scallops and squid. In addition to a food court with several restaurants, the Phoenix store will also sell bento boxes, Japanese sandwiches and onigiri.
The Bay Area locations host community events, such as a pop-up ramen festival, which was a major draw for bringing Osaka Marketplace to Arizona, Li said.
“It makes it feel like a part of the community and not just somewhere that you go to get groceries,” Li said.
There are several other Japanese-focused grocers in the Valley, like New Tokyo Food Market in Phoenix and Fujiya Market in Tempe, but none are nearly as large as Osaka Marketplace will be.
More Asian businesses are opening to serve TSMC workers
Fueled by the Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Company facilities, the boom of Asian-focused development in north Phoenix has been quietly gaining steam over the past few years.
Small mom-and-pop restaurants have been followed by larger regional and national chains, like Paris Baguette and 85°C Bakery Cafe. One of the largest planned projects will partially remake Arrowhead Towne Center, with the opening of a Taiwanese grocery store, 99 Ranch, in a former Sears building.
Since 2023, Li has been working with her parents, who are developers, to fill the shopping plaza on Union Hills Drive with businesses that cater to Asian customers. The plaza already has a smattering of Asian restaurants and businesses, including a Taiwanese restaurant and a Chinese-English after-school academy, but the main storefront has remained a Goodwill.
It took them longer than expected to find a business to replace the Goodwill, Li said. Despite the growth of Asian development, many out-of-state companies don’t see Phoenix as a promising market, Li said.
“Convincing businesses from outside of Phoenix has been really, really difficult,” Li said.
The family was connected to Osaka Marketplace through word of mouth and found out that the grocery store was already interested in moving to Phoenix. Takeda has said he hopes to open a dozen Osaka Marketplaces in the next 10 years.
Cultivating a north Phoenix hub for Asian food and culture
Now that the plaza has an anchor tenant, it’s on its way to becoming the type of “cultural meeting center” that Li’s family hopes to create.
“You can just go spend an entire afternoon and not actually go with a plan,” Li said. “That’s the vision that we have for the plaza.”
Details: 710 E Union Hills Drive, Phoenix. osakamarketplace.com.
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PAGE, AZ (AZFamily) — A person accused of making terroristic threats toward a northern Arizona medical facility was arrested Friday morning.
Just after 10:30 p.m., police received a report of a person calling the facility and threatening to kill staff and Native Americans, according to the Page Police Department.
Authorities said staff placed the facility on lockdown until officers identified the suspect and arrested them outside their home.
The suspect was booked on charges of disorderly conduct, threatening and intimidating, and making terroristic threats. Police have not publicly identified the person.
“The Page Police Department is grateful for and supports the medical staff’s decision to put the medical facility into lockdown until the suspect was arrested and the situation was rendered safe,” the department said in a Facebook post.
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In these four-round projections, the Arizona Cardinals don’t get a tackle until the fourth round.
We are just days away from the 2026 NFL draft, and that means some final mock drafts. What direction will the draft take the Arizona Cardinals?
Draft Wire’s Curt Popejoy put together a four-round mock draft for the Cardinals. They go defense early but rebuild the offense for 2026 and moving forward, including landing their potential franchise quarterback.
Cardinals 4-round mock draft
Here are the players in the first four rounds Popejoy projects for Arizona.
- Round 1: Ohio State EDGE/LB Arvell Reese
- Round 2: Alabama QB Ty Simpson
- Round 3: Clemson WR Antonio Williams
- Round 4: Florida OT Austin Barber
What we think of the picks
The Cardinals want to trade out of the third pick and draft a tackle, so not getting a tackle until Round 4 seems unlikely, although they did meet with Barber. They do have options at right tackle for 2026 already on the roster.
Reese would be a great pick if they don’t trade back, as they badly need pass-rushing help off the edge.
Drafting Simpson seems inevitable at this point, so it has to be in a mock draft, although the feeling is they will need to go up into Round 1 again to get him.
Williams has speed and is almost six feet tall, but he does have short arms.
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Due to significant injuries to the CB position last year which includes a shoulder surgery for Terrion Arnold, the Lions CB position scored a 6/10 need on my Lions Defensive Draft Need Rankings. Thus, an early-round selection of a young, healthy prospect like Keith Abney would not come as a surprise. He enters the draft with very low medical concern level.
Here is the excerpt from my medical report on Keith Abney:
(Ages in parentheses are at start of 2026 season and are factored into the concern level. Injury info and ages based on available public information are unverified and subject to update. Games played data courtesy of sports-reference.com.)
Keith Abney, CB (21) – Arizona State
Projected round 2-3. #43 on Jeff Risdon board Feb 19.
Concern level 0/10
There is an isolated report of a hand injury but no corroborating information. Even if the hand injury is true, that’s of minimal to no long-term concern.
His availability in his final two seasons has been perfect. Overall, Abney appears to be medically clean and is at an excellent age.
He finished college with 6 INT and 21 PBU.
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