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AHWATUKEE FOOTHILLS NEWS Wednesday, January 4, 2017
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A ‘shoe-in’ for Ahwatukee
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ow that 2017 has arrived, Ahwatukee is waking up from holiday distractions, realizing that in some respects, the new year isn’t much different from the old when it comes to the challenges that emerged in 2016. From the South Mountain Freeway and Ahwatukee’s golf course communities to a new State Legislature and a city election, Ahwatukee is bound to be different in some crucial aspects by the time it welcomes 2018. And the 15 people listed alphabetically below will play a role in that change to one degree or another. And in most respects, those changes will likely affect them as well.
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There aren’t many people like Benny Natanov anymore because there aren’t many leather shoes anymore. But he’s the new owner of Ed’s Shoe Repair on Warner Road and 48th Street, Ahwatukee, after buying it from Ed Urich, who is retiring after 22 years at the location. Natanov’s earlier careers don’t seem like they’d lead to shoe repair. Find out why on p.32.
Experience in small, big business a plus for new chamber president COVER STORY
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indy Lutz Cash recalled how she flew from her native Ohio 20 years ago to visit a friend in Ahwatukee and “I fell in love with the area.” And when she and her husband took advantage of corporate transfers to move
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Lindy Lutz Cash lays out some plans for the new year: see p. 37. to Arizona in 2003, she said, “We knew right where we were headed. We didn’t look anywhere else, and I’ve never looked back.”
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AIDAN BARRY
As senior vice president/ development for True Life Companies, Aidan Barry is the general for the multimilliondollar developer’s campaign to forever transform the 101-acre Ahwatukee Lakes Golf Course into a new neighborhood. If it wins the campaign, True Life’s Ahwatukee Farms would eventually become a separate homeowners association within Ahwatukee Lakes Golf Club, containing nearly 300 houses, a 5-acre farm, a private school, café and other amenities. But to start that development, True Life first needs 51 percent of the Lakes’ approximately 5,400 homeowners to agree to a change in the deed restrictions governing how that site can be used. Barry has stated True Life is in it for the long haul and has set no time limit on the company’s campaign. But he’s also eager See
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