New Queen Creek Safeway opens to shoppers this week

Safeway is set to open its newest store in Queen Creek on Friday.

The new Safeway is located at 22983 E. Riggs Road at Harvest Station on the southwest corner of Gary and Riggs roads.

It will open at 6 a.m., with a ribbon-cutting ceremony set for 9 a.m. Queen Creek Mayor Julia Wheatley joins several community leaders slated to speak at the event. 

The community is invited to attend and sample food. The store will also give free bags of groceries to the first 200 shoppers following the ribbon cutting, according to a press release.

During the event about a dozen local schools and nonprofit organizations will be awarded more than $100,000 in grants from the Safeway Foundation, the release continued.

The St. Vincent de Paul Society will receive $36,500; $25,000 will go to the Queen Creek Schools Education Foundation; and the Father McGivney Food Pantry will get $20,000.

In addition, the following schools and school organizations will each receive a $1,000 grant:

• Crismon High School Marching Band
• Queen Creek High School
• Queen Creek High School Football
• Queen Creek High School Cheerleaders
• Eastmark High School
• Eastmark High School Football
• Eastmark High School Cheerleaders
• Crismon High School
• Crismon High School Football
• Crismon High School Cheerleaders
• Queen Creek Junior High School
• Newell Barney College Preparatory
• Silver Valley Elementary School
• Queen Creek Elementary School
• Jack Barnes Elementary School
• Gateway Polytechnic Academy
• Frances Brandon-Pickett Elementary School
• Faith Mather Sossaman Elementary
• Desert Mountain Elementary School
• Katherine Mecham Barney Elementary
• Schnepf Elementary School
• Mountain Trail Academy

“This Safeway project was the perfect fit for this rapidly growing area of Queen Creek” Craig Eisenberg, CEO of the Eisenberg Company, a commercial real estate firm based in Phoenix, stated in the release. “The store located in the Harvest Station plaza in the southwest corner of Riggs and Gary Roads is the heartbeat of this ruggedly beautiful and desirable East Valley town.”