We are excited and honored to partner with the Wahlberg family and announce the opening of Wahlburgers at Genesee Valley Center in Flint, MI.
I’m so excited! This is huge for us. We want to be part of the community. I want to bring our family experience to yours. This is a big, big deal for us! I want to be in Flint. I want to be in communities where people work really hard, they have love for their community, family. It’s all about working together and celebrating and spreading the love. I’m so excited I can’t wait. –Mark Wahlberg
Event highlights:
- Mark Wahlberg announcing the soon-to-be opening of Wahlburgers Flint!
- Opening National Anthem by local singer and American Idol contestant, Genavieve Linkowski.
- Live concert by Pink Floyd tribute band Have a Cigar.
- Kids activities, including Curious George.
- Food vendors in Village.
- Activation by AquaHydrate.
- Mall tenant participation and activation through prize giveaways.
- Wahlburgers t-shirt giveaways (for future campaign to lead into grand opening).
- Open grill food samplings by Wahlburgers.
- GVC social promo reach: 25K
- Media coverage by:
- ABC12: https://bit.ly/2LzdaDS
- MLIVE: https://bit.ly/2uJwcOp
- CK105.5, NBC25, WNEM5, CARS108, WOMC105.3, and more!
Wahlburgers will occupy 4,000 SF of an exterior location, prominently located in the outdoor Village at Genesee Valley Center. Wahlburgers is scheduled to open Spring 2019!
About Wahlburgers
We are a working class organization, rooted at our family’s kitchen table where the only star is the food and the music is laughter and stories. We embrace loyalty, gratitude, excellence and community, sharing these values in our restaurants everyday. We like to have fun. We aim to make our guests smile. For more information, please visit https://wahlburgers.com.
Genesee Valley Center is an enclosed shopping mall with 1.3 million square feet of leasable area. Located outside of Flint, MI in the heart of Genesee County, GVC features an open-air shopping, dining and entertainment plaza, The Village, including 120+ shops and eateries like Macy's, Torrid, JCPenney, Wahlburgers, Victoria's Secret, Mo Pete's Sports Retreat, Box Lunch, Kay's Jewelers, H&M, Bar Louie, The Buckle and so much more.
