By Rodney Haas | Pinal Central
COOLIDGE — When the housing market crashed in 2008 and sent the country into its worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, it was a loud wakeup call for everyone.
It’s a wakeup call that reached Pinal County, where during the 2000s, housing was king and like most places, when the king fell so did the county.
But as the housing market slowly recovers, the decade of the 2010s won’t be known as the decade of housing in Pinal County. Instead it will probably be looked at as the decade of manufacturing, with 2016 being the turning point.
