Superstition Vistas: An EV vision on hold looks for new life
by Gary Nelson | East Valley Tribune
East Valley Partnership
A decade or so ago, you could hardly pick up a newspaper in the Valley without seeing a story about a place called Superstition Vistas.
The stories fairly oozed with hyperbole about prospects for developing 275 square miles of state-owned land stretching from Apache Junction to the northern border of Florence. The tract is roughly the size of Mesa, Tempe, Gilbert and Chandler combined, room for a million or more people over the coming few decades.
But it was more than just a grab-a-buck developer’s dream. Some of the most thoughtful minds in the East Valley and Pinal County were looking at how to prevent the vast expanse of desert from becoming a patchwork of scattered, energy-sucking neighborhoods with inadequate water, infrastructure and economic underpinnings. The booming Valley and its outlying regions had seen enough of that already.
