By Paul Maryniak | Ahwatukee Foothills News
For more than a month, rumors and questions have swirled around the former Quality Inn Hotel in Ahwatukee near I-10 and Elliot Road as some local residents expressed concern that it would shelter migrant families just as the Holiday Inn Express is being used a few miles south.
Turns out, nothing could be further from the truth.
The developer whose company bought the 34-year-old hotel for $8 million earlier this month is turning the building into an apartment complex, eyeing young professionals who are facing the same kind of low inventory among rental units in the Valley that homebuyers are confronting in the re-sale and new-build markets.
