The Simply Amazing Marketplace in central Arizona, has long been a magnet to locals, but especially visitors traveling through, with its eclectic mix of product offerings.
Located at 47 S. Main Street in Cottonwood, the marketplace, dating to 1935, is a site made up of several stores, designed and decorated to look like a combination desert frontier and traditional Mexican village store.
As such it fits in well with its surroundings in what is described as the Old Town Cottonwood tourist area, which is populated with art galleries, cafes, and shops.
A correspondent for the Arizona Daily Sun surveying the marketplace in 2019 made note of the “bronze statues of eagles, hard-carved life-size bears by Cottonwood carvers, Mexican art fabrications like cowboys on horses, a nine-foot stallion horse who is bucking, a huge, welded ball, a Tombstone cowboy titled ‘Ready to Go,’ and more.”
Now the Simply Amazing Marketplace, comprising around 17,000 square retail feet, with a false façade making the buildings appear to have two stories when in reality they are all single-story, is being listed for sale for $1.6 million.
Sitting on a roughly 1.5-acre site, the property and business itself has been owned by the same owner since the early 1970s.
Listed with the owner Terel Zitco, the site has parking spaces for up to 40 vehicles.
By Garry Boulard
