An inspector exits the old Walgreens building on Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway.

 

Walmart is converting the former McDonald’s restaurant space inside its store at 41840 W. Maricopa-Casa Grande Hwy. into a Dickey’s BBQ. The tenant improvement is $105,000.

The Pinal County complex received its permits for new commercial construction at 20025 N. Wilson Ave. and commercial addition construction at 19955 N. Wilson Ave. in February after breaking ground in January. The 2,400-square-foot addition is valued at $6.1 million. The construction of an 8,314-square-foot admin building at the site has a value of $2.1 million.

Horizon Retail Construction received its commercial tenant improvement permit to work on the unoccupied Walgreens building at 41840 W. Maricopa-Casa Grande Hwy. The project is worth $500,000 and owned by Maricopa 7 LLC.

In touting the development of Copper Sky Commercial, Estrella Gin Business Park and Sonoran Creek Marketplace on social media, Mayor Christian Price related the anticipated economic impact: 1.5 million square feet of new construction; 1,273 jobs created; $223 million in capital investment; $4.67 million annual sales tax and property tax collected; and $1.42 billion in economic output.

A+ Charter Schools received permits for a foundation as well as grading and draining for its construction location at 41735 W. Alan Stephens Parkway. Both permits are defined as “at risk,” or late in the application process.


This item appears in the March issue of InMaricopa.

Raquel Hendrickson
Raquel, a.k.a. Rocky, is a sixth-generation Arizonan who spent her formative years in the Missouri Ozarks. After attending Temple University in Philadelphia, she earned a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University and has been in the newspaper business since 1990. She has been a sports editor, general-assignment reporter, business editor, arts & entertainment editor, education reporter, government reporter and managing editor. After 16 years in the Verde Valley-Sedona, she moved to Maricopa in 2014. She loves the outdoors, the arts, great books and all kinds of animals.