(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Meritage Homes.)
By Gabriela Rico | Arizona Daily Star
A new housing development going up on a former desert homestead on Tucson’s east side has a unique centerpiece.
A longtime family home, built in 1966, will be preserved and soon surrounded by more than 220 houses in the Houghton Reserve community.
Located at Broadway and Houghton Road, 100 acres of land was once owned by Albert and Betty Gegenheimer, who bought it in 1946.
The original one-bedroom adobe home became too small for the growing family and, after Albert Gegenheimer counted 12 cars on Houghton Road in a single afternoon, the couple had a larger home built farther from the road, said their granddaughter, Grace Gegenheimer.
