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Lennar Homes seeks to develop 640-acre site

Lennar Homes is seeking permission to build a large housing development on 640 acres in southeast Maricopa. In a pre-application narrative filed on behalf of...
Carls Jr

Carl’s Jr. making a Maricopa comeback

Carl’s Jr. is returning to Maricopa. Sustainability Engineering Group of Scottsdale has filed a pre-application and request for site plan approval with the city for...
Marlene Armstrong MUSD

MUSD names principal for new high school

The Maricopa Unified School District has appointed a principal for its second high school. Marlene Armstrong, who was hired last year as the assistant principal...
State Route 347

‘Stars aligning’ on SR347 solution as Gila River signals cooperation

For several years, the rocky relationship between the Gila River Indian Community and the Arizona Department of Transportation hasn't done much to advance a...

Diamond interchange one of multiple ideas for 347, I-10

The Arizona Department of Transportation is studying alternatives for improving traffic flow and safety at the intersection of Interstate 10 and State Route 347/Queen...
Sprouts Sonoran Creek Maricopa AZ

Sprouts to anchor shopping plaza on John Wayne Parkway

Sprouts will open in Maricopa in the fall of 2021 at the Sonoran Creek Marketplace, according to the company marketing the retail property. And a...
Cold Beers and Cheeseburgers Sonoran Creek

New sit-down restaurant coming to Maricopa

Maricopans will have a new sit-down restaurant option next spring. Popular Valley restaurant Cold Beers & Cheeseburgers has confirmed it will add a location in...

Critically-acclaimed restaurant coming to Maricopa

A critically acclaimed Phoenix restaurant is planning to open a location just south of the new Maricopa Library and Cultural Center near city hall. Cocina...
Green Road Hogenes Dairy UPRR

$25M east-west thoroughfare is transportation priority

Improving transportation flow and relieving traffic congestion was on the minds of city officials during a recent planning session. One priority is a nearly two-mile-long,...

Box Canyon Shooting Range to open by March

With the beginning of the new year, Maricopa residents can start looking forward to the opening of a new shooting venue at Box Canyon. According...
Sprouts Farmers Market Opening

Shoppers thrilled as Sprouts opens long-awaited store

The long-awaited opening of Sprouts Farmers Market took place early Wednesday morning with about 100 people on hand to witness the grand opening and...

Eagle Shadow revives as next big subdivision

  What would be the first master-planned residential development in Maricopa in years is a reminder of how the city’s development started. El Dorado Holdings wants...

New Stonegate development to bring homes, retail together

Developers are reimagining nearly 50 empty acres in Maricopa as a “village.” Once agricultural and now vacant, the acres between Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway and Allen...
Pinal County farmland

Study: Pinal is 2nd most at-risk U.S. county for being uninhabitable

A recent study says Pinal County is the second most at-risk county in the United States of being uninhabitable in the near future due...

New high school to be named Desert Sunrise

The Maricopa Unified School District chose Desert Sunrise as the name for the city’s new high school Wednesday night, choosing not to use any of...
Green Road Hogenes Dairy UPRR

City plans to run ring around congested John Wayne Parkway

Ask Maricopans what improvements are most needed in the city and you'll likely hear a plea to do something about the traffic. The widening of...
Sprouts Farmers Market

Sprouts announces opening date

Sprouts Farmers Market has announced an opening date for its long-awaited 23,000-square-foot store in Sonoran Creek Marketplace. The grocer announced Friday that construction will finish...
Copa Flats Site Plan

P&Z approves Copa Flats apartments

The Maricopa Planning & Zoning Commission gave the go-ahead to a request for approval of the site plan, landscape, photometric and elevation plans for...

Library to add post office Dec. 8

Maricopa residents will be getting a break when mailing packages this holiday season as the city is opening a new postal annex in the...
Honeycutt Run rendering

P&Z approves zoning change to allow rental community

Maricopa may get more single-family rental homes if a project approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission gains final approval from city council. Honeycutt Run,...
Conjoined kittens Maricopa shelter

5 conjoined kittens born at Maricopa shelter

The man called looking to drop off “a momma cat and a few kittens” at Little Whiskers Animal Rescue in Maricopa. Instead, he brought 29...
Wild Horse Pass Dev map

Wild Horse Pass selects developer for 10M-square-foot project

After a deliberative process, the Wild Horse Pass Development Authority (WHPDA) announced the selection of Scottsdale-based legacy developer Sunbelt Holdings to lead the development...

Mayor: Chili’s coming to Maricopa

It’s finally happening. Chili’s Grill & Bar is coming to Maricopa. According to a Facebook post from Mayor Christian Price and other sources, the casual...
Saddleback Fire

House fire burns wildly in Maricopa

A structure fire in the Saddleback section of Maricopa was burning wildly around 6:45 p.m. Thursday. The blaze apparently erupted at a modular home in...

Mayor shares good news on Maricopa roadways

Mayor Christian Price provided the public with more news regarding roadwork in the city in addition to work being done on State Route 347...

Sunrise Café finds second chance with new owner

Sunrise Café, the popular restaurant whose closing at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic became permanent, is being resurrected by a new owner with...

Roadside discussion leads to drug bust

Early Tuesday morning, a conversation between partners on the roadside led to two arrests. According to police reports about the incident, two individuals, Brandon Carpenter...
Post Office KidTraxToys

City to get another post office

For residents frustrated by long lines at the city's only post office, there is some good news. Soon, there will be another place to buy...
Monday Woman Takes Sign

Who is stealing Trump signs?

On Sunday, Oct. 5, a dozen-or-so Trump-Pence and Latinos for Trump signs were placed in the median along Honeycutt Road, just east of State...
Hidden Valley Ranch

Deal for 1,160 acres foresees 3,600 homes in Hidden Valley

A Scottsdale land acquisition company has purchased 1,160 acres in Hidden Valley for $11.6 million and intends to sell it to one or more...
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