By Parker Leavitt | The Republic | azcentral.com
A quick drive through the Bridges community under construction in Gilbert makes one thing clear: Something big is taking shape in a once-forsaken plot of desert near the foot of the Santan Mountains.
No fewer than 10 homebuilders have signs along a newly paved neighborhood drive, advertising their pieces of the master-planned community.
Shea Homes, Taylor Morrison, Pulte Homes and several others have staked a claim on the real estate in south Gilbert, an area once dominated by farmland and dairies.