David M. Brown, Special for The Republic
Loop 303 will open up the West Valley for a new generation of housing.
The highway connects Interstate 10 near Cotton Lane in the south to I-17 about 2 miles south of Carefree Highway in the north. Crews are finishing the southernmost interchange.
“When the I-10/Loop 303 interchange is completed by this fall, drivers for the first time will be able to travel all the way from I-17 in north Phoenix to I-10 in Goodyear, a distance of 39 miles,” said Doug Nintzel, ADOT spokesman.
Because of this, new areas of the West Valley are becoming even more desirable for homebuilders and homebuyers.
“The completion will allow vastly improved access to the lush, high Sonoran Desert foothills of north Peoria,” said Andy Kist, associate broker with the Phoenix office of Keller Williams Professional Partners. An Arizonan since 1968, he lives in Peoria’s West Wing area.
Because of the 303, developments under construction are already remaking the Northwest Valley.
Kist says there is a shortage of lots in north Peoria, with developers briskly preparing Village II and Trilogy West at Vistancia as well as Rancho Cabrillo, Rancho Mercado and Coldwater Ranch, east of Vistancia, and Lake Pleasant Estates and Saddleback Heights, west of Vistancia.
