Credit: Kimley-Horn & Associates, Inc./Pima County
By Roland Murphy | AZBEX
After receiving multiple inquiries over the years from site selectors looking for large sites for future employment centers, and having few options to present to them, Pima County is advancing an Area Specific Plan that could fuel major economic development activity in the years to come.
Pima has several areas and specific properties it owns and leases for various types of economic development activities—including downtown urban space, interstate-adjacent office and industrial properties—and the 500-acre Aerospace Research Campus intended for aerospace, technology and research and development uses.
In the 1970s, the County acquired approximately 3,000 acres south of Interstate 10 and Houghton Road from the Arizona State Land Department. That space currently features the Pima County Fairgrounds and the Southeast Regional Park, which largely consists of other recreational uses and undeveloped desert.
