By Mike Sunnucks | Rose Law Group Reporter
Plans have been filed in Scottsdale for a new 243,360-square-foot warehouse building at the Seventh-day Adventist property in the Scottsdale Airpark area.
LGE Design Build and Creation has submitted for the new industrial building in the northern portion of Seventh-day Adventists’ property located at the northeast corner of Sutton Drive and Scottsdale Road.
LGE is asking for site plan and landscaping approvals from the city.
The property was home to airfields, dorms, hangars and classrooms to train pilots during World War II. The Scottsdale property was turned over to Arizona State College after the war but was later turned back over to the U.S. government in 1953 which transferred the property to the Arizona Conference Corporation of Seventh-day Adventists (“AZCCSDA”) for their Thunderbird Adventist Academy boarding school.
Approximately 200 acres of the land was offered to the City of Scottsdale which opened Scottsdale Airport on the site in 1967.
The church retained approximately 75 acres and has been operating a religious and boarding school with approximately 300 students along with staff residing on campus within the dormitories.
In 2019, the 75-acre property was rezoned to the Planned Airpark Core Development (“PCP”) zoning districts. Through the use of the Aviation (“AV”), Airpark Mixed-Use (“AMU”), Employment (“Emp”) and Airpark Mixed-Use – Residential (“AMU-R”) subdistricts, the church looks redevelops underutilized portions of the property to create office, industrial and aeronautical uses The industrial building is approximately 18 acres of the overall 75-acre campus.
