By Parker Leavitt | The Republic
Land once used for the Western-themed attraction will soon be home to 98 townhouses and 76 duplexes.
A plan to build more than 170 townhouses and duplexes on part of the former Rawhide Western Town site in north Scottsdale won approval from the city’s Development Review Board on Thursday, clearing the way for new construction on 23 acres left vacant for more than a decade.
The project, being developed by New Jersey-based K. Hovnanian Homes, includes nearly 420,000 square feet of new housing near the southeastern corner of Scottsdale and Pinnacle Peak roads, near Scottsdale’s Appaloosa Library.
Rawhide’s Western-themed steakhouse, stores and gunfight shows once sprawled across 160 acres now known as Silverstone in Scottsdale, but the attraction moved to the Gila River Reservation near Chandler in 2006.