QuikTrip study foresees big spike in 40th Street traffic
This photo of the intersection of 40th Street and Cottonwood Lane during morning rush hour Monday, Feb. 10, shows a vehicle coming out of Cottonwood and waiting to turn left, but is stuck beneath a signal because the white truck is at the end of vehicles at in the left-turn lane for traffic heading east […]
Read More →Club West Golf Course plan triggers angst, questions, complaints
Ahwatukee Foothills News Monte Vista Elementary librarian Linda Todd, left, and Ahwatukee muralist Suzanne Whitaker pose in front of Whitaker’s new mural. / Pablo Robles / Ahwatukee Foothills News As the four investors prepare for an open house today on their plan to save the Club West Golf Course, dozens of homeowners are raising numerous […]
Read More →Construction (and politics) will energize 2020
Ahwatukee Foothills News They say hindsight is 20/20. Foresight, not so much. But if there’s one safe bet, it’s 2020 will be a year for the history books. Ahwatukee and the rest of the Phoenix region will not sit meekly on the sidelines as the nation debates the fate of its president by way either […]
Read More →Lakes lawyer rips Gee’s request for contempt stay
Attorney Tim Barnes, who represents two homeowners trying to force the return of Ahwatukee Lakes Golf Course, told a Superior Court judge that owner Wilson Gee has inflicted great hardship on residents with his handling of the course. /AFN file photo By Paul Maryniak | Ahwatukee Foothills News In a blistering legal filing, the attorney […]
Read More →QuikTrip plan still fuels residents’ anxiety
This rendering superimposes a “red zone” atop a drone photo of the QuikTrip site at 40th and Cottonwood Way. The photoshopped picture of the gas station shows the approximate location of where QuikTrip would be located and how a tanker could crash in the middle of Cottonwood. / Ahwatukee Foothills News By Paul Maryniak | […]
Read More →Lakes appeal predicts dire consequences, rips panel’s opinion
Ahwatukee Lakes Golf Course By Paul Maryniak | Ahwatukee Foothills News The court got it wrong. That’s what lawyers for The True Life Companies and Wilson Gee told the Arizona Supreme Court in appeal the decision rendered by the state Court of Appeals in the lawsuit by two Ahwatukee Lakes homeowners who want the golf […]
Read More →Appeal asks Arizona’s highest court to consider Lakes case
Ahwatukee Lakes Golf Course, shuttered since 2013, has become a dingy 101-acre piece of desert. / AFN file photo Ahwatukee Foothills News The True Life Companies and Wilson Gee asked the Arizona Supreme Court to consider their appeal of the state Appeals Court decision ordering them to restore the Ahwatukee Lakes Golf Course, last Friday. […]
Read More →Lighting, fences fuel more freeway resentment in Ahwatukee
Chain link fencing along segments of Liberty Lane in Ahwatukee have riled Club West and Foothills residents. / Special to AFN By Paul Maryniak | Ahwatukee Foothills News The Arizona Department of Transportation and South Mountain Freeway developer Connect202Partners are quickly learning that good fences don’t make good neighbors in Ahwatukee. As opposition grew over […]
Read More →Don’t fence us in, Club West tells ADOT
Elspeth Gadzig surveys the posts for a chain-link fence along Liberty Lane that will run the entire 22-mile length of the South Mountain Freeway./ Pablo Robles/AFN Staff Photographer By Paul Maryniak | Ahwatukee Foothills News From the folks who are bringing Ahwatukee the South Mountain Freeway with its soaring sound walls and other changes that […]
Read More →Caught between 2 HOAs, homeowners fret; HOAs must be proactive, says Rose Law Group litigator Olen Lenets
The first few hundred feet of the trail have been all but obliterated. / AFN By Paul Maryniak | Ahwatukee Foothills News More than three years have passed since the Maricopa County Flood Control District and the City of Phoenix labeled a mountainside in the Tapestry Canyon area of Ahwatukee a hazard. Citing “erosion and […]
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