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Club West golf could return this fall BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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lub West residents likely will know by next week if the prospective new owners will be closing their deal with Wilson Gee to buy the golf course. Four men, including Ahwatukee Realtor Mike Mendoza, have until June 10 to complete a due diligence period for evaluating the property — but Gee’s broker is optimistic the deal will go forward. Mendoza did not return calls seeking comment. Although the issue of finding cheaper water appears to remain unresolved, the prospective owners last month presented their plans to the Foothills Club West Community Association board, promising a huge investment beyond the $850,000 they’re to pay for
the site. The presentation said they would be spending $1 million on maintenance and upgrades to the clubhouse, driving range and the course itself. “Our goal is to rebuild Club West Golf Course to its original state,” the owners said in a handout, promising “to add considerable value to the property, thus adding value to the Foothills Club West membership.” The presentation said the pending buyers would offer “casual to fine dining at our newly renovated restaurant” and make it “a friendly neighborhood gathering place.” The timeline laid out in the presentation included four phases, with overseeding slated for the fall. Though not mentioned, the overseeding suggests they expect the course would be playable before the end of the year.
The first phase, tentatively set to be completed in August, included major renovations of the clubhouse, including an expanded patio and interior remodeling, opening the driving range as soon as possible with the addition of a retaining wall and “possibly adding moveable sun screening for summertime use.” Along with resurfacing the parking lot and adding landscaping around the lot and clubhouse entry, phase one also would include refurbishing the lake with a new liner and cleaning and replacing the railroad ties on its southern side with concrete blocks, upgrading the maintenance building and “bring back to life” the south end of the practice green.
see CLUB WEST page 8
QuikTrip plan may not need city approval any more BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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oothills Paseo II residents’ hopes of stopping a controversial plan for a QuikTrip gas station at the only entrance to their subdivision may be on life-support. The owner of the lot at the southeast corner of 40th Street and Cottonwood Way may be undertaking a legal end-run that would not require city Planning and Development Department involvement, closing an avenue that residents had hoped to use to stop the gas station from going in. “We believe the developer is making revisions to the plans so he won’t need modifications to the zoning stipulations and therefore won’t need to go through the Hearing Officer process in order to develop,” said planning department spokeswoman Angie Holdsworth. “They haven’t withdrawn their request yet.”
see QUIKTRIP page 16
As the South Mountain Freeway takes shape near 40th Street, prospects are growing that a controversial QuikTrip gas station will be built only about 300 feet from the interchange, becoming the closest to the highway along the entire Pecos segment. (Tom Sanfilippo/Inside Out Aerial))
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