By Jessica Boehm | The Republic
More than 100 of Arizona’s most influential business and political leaders from both sides of the aisle gathered in a theater overlooking Tempe Town Lake Friday to unanimously support one of the most ambitious ideas in recent Arizona history:
A development that would stretch 45 miles across metropolitan Phoenix — traversing six cities and two Native American reservations — that would bring life back to the Salt River bed that has lain dry and mostly unused for more than 100 years.