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January 5, 2008 - 12:53AM
Chandler Airpark area keeps growing
Misty Williams, Tribune
A new office park has opened in the Chandler Airpark region, which will continue to be a hot spot for commercial development next year. Located just south of Queen Creek Road on the west side of Gilbert Road, Carmel Professional Plaza has nine buildings with more than 54,000 square feet of space.
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The project is a mix of office condominiums and retail space.
The Chandler Airpark region is a nine-square-mile swath of land set up by the city during the late 1990s to be a major commercial hub that will someday employ 25,000 people. Development of the area has taken off in the past year with a number of office and industrial projects in the works.
Among them, Opus West Corp. is building two 90,000-square-foot buildings at Loop 202 and Cooper Road. And the Rockefeller Group is proposing a roughly 820,000-square-foot mix of retail, industrial and office space at Queen Creek and Gilbert roads.
The Carmel Professional Plaza project is a joint effort by Mesa’s Cobe Development and Glenwood Development. The grand opening is slated for January.
Borgata Plaza
Cobe Development also has office projects planned for the Queen Creek area.
Located on the southeast corner of Hunt Highway and Thompson Road, Borgata Professional Plaza will have more than 62,000 square feet of office space in nearly a dozen buildings.
Office units will range from 1,400 square feet to roughly 8,200 square feet.
At the southwest corner of Germann Road and the re-aligned Rittenhouse Road, Cobe is planning Cortina Professional Plaza.
The complex will include 32,000 square feet in more than a half dozen buildings. Offices will range in size from 1,150 square feet to nearly 4,600 square feet.
Encanterra
In the residential home market, a new master-planned community has had 35 home purchases since sales launched less than two months ago. The 745-acre gated community, called Encanterra, sits on the southeast corner of Gantzel and Combs roads near Queen Creek and will someday include more than 2,000 houses. It’s the first private country club venture for Trilogy, a division of national builder Shea Homes. A private golf course there is slated to open in early 2008.
Homes in Encanterra will range from 1,400 square feet to 3,700 square feet with two to four bedrooms. Pricing starts in the mid-$200,000s.
Sales so far have been by appointment only — open to people who registered on an interest list at www.encanterra.com, but a public grand opening is set for February.
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