Federal Pizza sets opening date for long-awaited north Valley location

The popular Uptown pizzeria is expanding for the first time. Here's what to expect.

August 6, 2025

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The menu at Federal Pizza includes signature wood-fired and Detroit-style pies, pastas, salads and craft beer and wine. Upward Projects

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Last summer, Federal Pizza, the popular Uptown Phoenix spot that serves wood-fired pies and craft beer, announced plans to expand for the first time. Now, it's set an opening date for its second location at PV, the redevelopment at Paradise Valley Mall. Pies will be available starting on Aug. 12.

Upward Projects, the Phoenix-based restaurant group behind Federal Pizza, Postino Wine Cafe, Joyride Taco House, Windsor and Churn, “jumped at the opportunity to debut a second location” of Federal, Upward’s co-founder and CEO Lauren Bailey said in a news release announcing the expansion last year.

“Federal is by far our most requested restaurant. Fans from all over the Valley have been asking for years if we’d open one in their neighborhood, but, until now, we just couldn’t find the perfect fit,” she says.

The opening date was announced on Federal Pizza's social media.

"The secret’s out, and we are SO. STOKED," the post reads, followed by a heart-hands emoji. "Just like our OG spot, it’s built for good food, great hangs, and a little something for *everyone.* We can’t wait to meet you, PV!"

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Federal Pizza will join other local favorites that are adding outposts to the entertainment, business and residential hub in north Phoenix. So far, nine eateries and shops have begun welcoming guests. With an additional four new restaurants announced in April, six spots are slated to arrive later this year and next, including Federal Pizza.

“We had been looking at this area for a long time," Upward’s co-founder and CEO Lauren Bailey shared during a tour of PV in April, describing the prime location as "like Main and Main."

Federal Pizza's new location will feature the same menu of wood-fired pies, pastas, salads, Churn ice cream and craft beer and wine that fans are familiar with in Uptown.

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Grabbing slices of a Detroit-style pan pizza.

A second location of Federal Pizza is coming to north Phoenix at PV, the redevelopment of the Paradise Valley Mall near Cactus Road and Tatum Boulevard.

Upward Projects

Among Federal's signature pizzas are the Flaming Lips, topped with pepperoni, salami, gorgonzola, hot honey and rosemary and the Supremium, a Detroit pan pizza with salami, pepperoncini, sweety drop peppers, Castelvetrano olives, onion, oregano and grana padano cheese.

The original Federal Pizza is also known for its drive-thru window and midcentury modern aesthetic which is a nod to its history as a bank designed by local modernist architect Al Beadle.

Though the second location is a new build, the Upward Projects team said vintage elements will be incorporated in homage to the original Federal Pizza and that building’s history.

The space at PV will be more than 4,200 square feet and will include indoor-outdoor dining as well as a lounge and bottle shop offering specialty goods, growler fills and to-go pints of Churn ice cream for those ordering and picking up takeout.

Federal Pizza

Opens Aug. 12

12636 N. Tatum Blvd.

Currently open
5210 N. Central Ave., #104

Sara Crocker is a staff writer for Phoenix New Times where she focuses primarily on food. She began freelancing for New Times in July 2022 and joined the staff in February 2023. Prior to New Times, Sara worked for publications such as The Denver Post, Phoenix Magazine, Phoenix Home & Garden and Colorado Life Magazine. When she’s not reporting on the Valley’s dining scene, Sara brews beer at home and is an avid cook.

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