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Wednesday, November 9, 2022
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3 projects would bring 856 apartments to Ahwatukee
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This Week
BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
NEWS................................ 3 Kick-Off Party team names Armer Foundation a beneficiary.
COMMUNITY ............ 22 2 car shows vrooming into Ahwatukee to help charities.
SPORTS .......................... 35 The sons of the late Pedro Gomez of Ahwatukee mark his Hall of Fame induction.
COMMUNITY...................... 22 BUSINESS .......................... 29 OPINION ..............................31 SPORTS ............................... 34 GETOUT...............................39 CLASSIFIEDS ...................... 42
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hwatukee would see 856 new apartments across three developments over the next three or four years if a proposed 417-unit complex on 50th Street near Ray Road wins a rezoning request from the city early next year. Nearly half that total already is assured with the ongoing conversion of the former Clarion
Ahwatukee man a veterans parade grand marshal
Hotel on E. La Puente Avenue near Elliot Road and the I-10 and the massive Upper Canyon development along Chandler Boulevard between 19th and 27th avenues. The latter includes 329 apartment units along with 1,050 single-family homes and 150 townhouses. It and the Quinn Ahwatukee apartments already have city approvals. The third project was the subject of an online neighborhood meeting Nov. 1 conducted by developer Everest Holdings and its partner,
PB Bell, which would raze the two-building office complex at 15210 S. 50th St. In its place about 1,500 feet south of the southeast corner of 50th and Ray, the developers would build four three-story buildings and two four-story buildings housing what they call “highly amenitized” apartments aimed at “high-earning” single professionals and couples.
see COMPLEX page 10
BY COTY DOLORES MIRANDA AFN Contributor
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n Ahwatukee veteran is one of nine Veterans Grand Marshals leading the 26th annual Phoenix Veterans Day Parade Friday. The parade steps off at ll a.m. Nov. 11 at E. Montebello and N. Central avenues. The parade’s host, Honoring America’s Veterans, estimates there are 511,000 veterans in Maricopa County. As in years past, the seven Grand Marshals represent veterans from every foreign war or conflict from World War II through Afghanistan. Thomas Tostenson, a 22-year Ahwatukee resident along with his wife of five years – retired U.S. Army Medical Corps physician
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Ahwatukee resident Thomas Tostenson was a U.S. Navy chaplain during the Cold War and his wife, Dr. Martha Bauder, is a retired U.S. Army Medical Corps physician. Thomas is one of nine Veterans Grand Marshals leading the 26th annual Phoenix Veterans Day Parade Friday. (Courtesy of Thomas Tostenson)
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