Proposed freeways in Pinal County are spurring speculators to buy up vacant property in anticipation of a building boom.
Investors in real estate and developers have quietly been sinking money into land throughout the area, banking on key transportation projects coming to fruition, primarily the proposed Interstate 11 and the “north-south freeway” that would connect Interstate 10 at Picacho with the East Valley.
Most notable among these is a 11,447-acre buy by Pinal Land Holdings LLC, which followed the $114 million sale with annexation into the city of Coolidge in early 2014.