(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents The Empire Group.)
By Roland Murphy | AZBEX
Last week, we told you about the master plan to bring a 360-unit apartment complex, 259 Build-to-Rent units and 26KSF of commercial development to a 40-acre site near Sonoran Desert Drive and North Valley Parkway, just east of the I-17 and Loop 303 intersection. (AZBEX, Nov. 9, 2021)
Two more proposals are making their way through the City of Phoenix approval process that, if built, will bring another 398 traditional multifamily units and 354 Build-to-Rent units to the same area.
The requests for all three projects seek to remove their sites from the North Gateway Planned Community District. As previously reported, the PCD was established in 2001 with the expectation that a master developer looking to build a project there would create the necessary infrastructure to support it. Since that never happened, and since the parcels are individually owned, the PCD is considered defunct, according to staff reports for all three projects. Rezoning is necessary to develop an individual property outside the original PCD’s infrastructure requirements.
