Did anyone happen to notice this front page story in today's Arizona Star?
Now, we must admit that is a real novel idea-----having developers pay for road improvements.
Not in Oro Valley. Here, not only do the developers get millions in tax giveaways, supposedly to pay for infrastructure, but then, at least in the case of Vestar, they don't even pay for main road improvements. The article also points out, having developers pay for these improvements isn't something that happened for the first time. In another developer-funded project,improvements to Arizona 287 as it crosses I-10 in Casa Grande, are being paid for and built by Westcor, which is developing a shopping center there. Yes, that's the same Westcor that paid for road improvements when they built their "unique, upscale" La Encantada Mall.
By the way, if you don't have the time to read the whole article, we thought you should at least read the quote from, Marana Town Manager Mike Reuwsaat, who said: "This will eventually bring all the Avra Valley traffic, as well as the Oro Valley traffic, through the area."
Now, why would anyone want to shop there, or anywhere else for that matter? After all, we're getting a Wal-Mart for our $23.2 million! What a shame!
Click here to read the article.
1 comment:
It's hard for me to believe that those of us who live in Oro Valley or north in, say, Saddlebrook, are going to drive the twenty or so miles to shop at a Tangerine I-10 Intersection, especially over a two lane road with more and more traffic lights. And given that there will be more than enough retail littering Oracle Road.
Marana is on it's death march to become a city. Aside from the Tortalitas, there isn't much there.
Their leadership, which was recently replace, hasn't been much better than ours.
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