By Michael Clancy | The Arizona Republic
Loop 101 on the Salt River Reservation east of Scottsdale winds through pastoral fields, past casinos and baseball stadiums. It has a community college and shopping areas and several office developments.
Whether more of the fields, growing primarily cotton, will be supplanted by development is a question that not even the tribal stewards can answer.
So much of the land along the freeway is controlled by individual landowners that it takes a dedicated developer to put enough acreage together to make a difference, said Candace Romero, spokeswoman for the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Community.
