Heavy equipment works at the Murphy Road construction site of the new Maricopa Unified School District high school. Photo by Brian Petersheim Jr.

Maricopa 240 LLC will begin construction of the 93,856-square-foot main building for Maricopa Unified School District’s second high school at 16200 N. Murphy Road. The work will be done by Chasse Building Team at a cost of $9.2 million. A 1,015-square-foot building will also be built on site by Chasse for $55,965. Another project will widen Farrell and Murphy roads at the school site and extend water/sewer and irrigation lines from Hartman Road to Murphy Road, with the work performed by Overley’s Inc.

Richmond American Homes will add an air conditioning unit to a model home
garage for a construction personnel office at 19902 N. Wilford Ave. in Homestead North at a cost of $2,500. The work involves a re-plat of parcel 18. The work will be done by Richmond American Construction Inc.

Discount Tire obtained a permit to begin construction of its Sonoran Creek store at 20240 N. John Wayne Parkway, with a project cost of $1.4 million. The store will sit on lots 2 and 3. The work will be done by FI West Inc.

Fast and Friendly Express Car Wash will build a $1.8 million, 5,383-square-foot facility in Maricopa Power Center at The Wells, 42020 W. Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway. The work will be done for owner CAPDEVL060 LLC by AP Global.

A re-plat and tenant improvements in the existing shell will be done for new offices at the Maricopa Grand Professional Village, 41664 W. Smith-Enke Road, Suite 100. The $158,400 project will be done for PHT Property Holdings by RSG Builders LLC.

A model home sales office will be added at 22334 N. Daniel Drive on Parcel 43/48, Phase III at The Lakes at Rancho El Dorado. The $10,000 project for Richmond American Homes will be built by Richmond American Construction, Inc.

K Hovnanian Homes will build a $20,000 temporary sales office in a model home garage at 18658 N. Los Gabrieles Way in Tortosa South.

DR Horton Homes will convert a garage into a construction office at 41025 W. Sunland Drive in The Lakes at Rancho El Dorado. The $5,000 project on phase III, parcel 59, lot 1558 is being built by DRH Construction.

DR Horton has requested construction permits for all remaining subdivision
improvements associated with Parcel I at 35780 W. San Ildefanso Ave. in Tortosa South. The $647,336 project will be done by Knochel Bros. Inc.

Rough grading work will be done on Porter Road between Smith-Enke and Honeycutt roads from the existing property wall to the existing edge of the pavement. Buesing Corp. will do the work.


This story appears in the August issue of InMaricopa magazine.