The battle for Patriots Squarehas reached a milestone. Supporters of the $900 million mixed-use retail project to be built in downtown
Residents of southeast
The northwestern corner of Southern Avenue and Stapley Drive has sat vacant for decades, a barren spot of desert in the middle of a city that grew up around it. But a Scottsdale-based development company has big plans for the site that could finally turn the 20 acres into a revenue producer for
A nine-house infill project in Ahwatukee Foothills has taken much longer to finish than anyone expected, with some buyers blaming the builder, and the developer blaming hillside rock - and sometimes a petroglyph on a nearby big rock. “It’s the hardest soil I’ve seen in 30 years of building homes,” said builder Larry Kush, owner of Montevina Estate Homes. “It’s solid rock. The whole mountain is solid granite.” More…
One set of victims bought a house as an investment, only to realize that it belonged to someone else. Another had a lender knock on the door and immediately foreclose on the home, leaving the family on the street. They’re just a few examples of how a Valley mortgage-fraud ring with ties to a former Goodyear real estate agent left seven families in the lurch. More…
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High-rise developers may build condos as high as 250 feet in one of the oldest pockets of Phoenix, just south of the heart of downtown.
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Vicky Greathouse needed cash when her mother-in-law passed away, but she said her longtime bank turned her away. The Glendale woman found help at a payday loan store. Last week, Greathouse testified at the state Capitol in defense of the much-criticized quick-cash stores, saying they serve a purpose. “People need a choice and a place to go in case something comes up and they need to make it from one payday to the next,” Greathouse said. The stores, allowed to open in
Despite the northeast Valley’s rapidly rising price of land, Habitat for Humanity Desert Foothills is breaking ground Saturday on its second affordable-housing project in Cave Creek. With land at $500,000 an acre, the non-profit group is struggling to find sites to build more homes for the estimated 600 families living in what Habitat President Jack Gardner calls “rats and rain buckets” housing.
About the same number, he said, pay far more than the 25 percent of income recommended for housing. More…
A conservative fiscal watchdog group is opposing a plan to pump another $1.7 billion into the region’s still-under-construction light rail system. The Arizona Free Enterprise Club is against a plan being proposed that would ask the county, state and federal govenrments for as much as $1.7 billion for addtional routes and resouces. More…
With approval from the Surprise City Council now in hand, development of a major northwest Valley retail project is expected to begin this year. Prasada is a mixed-use project that covers more than 3,000 acres and is slated to include homes, a regional mall, an auto mall, a Catholic Healthcare West hospital and retail power centers. Westcor will develop an 1,800-acre retail component, between Greenway and Cactus Roads along Loop 303, also to be called Prasada. More…
What a difference a day makes. The day after losing a bid to snare US Airways’ 600-employee flight operations center,
Over the past few days, Debbie Cox, a Realtor in Surprise, has received more than a dozen faxes and phone calls from worried clients. It’s that time of year when the Maricopa County Assessor’s Office mails out property valuation notices, and some homeowners were surprised at what they saw for 2008. More…