For Maricopa, Ak-Chin contributions deeper than money
Mayor Price and Chairman Miguel in last year’s Maricopa Veterans Day Parade./inMaricopa
When a rattling, old building was demolished near the corner of John Wayne Parkway and Honeycutt Road several years ago, the emotional response from members of the Ak-Chin Indian Community surprised Maricopa City Council.
“We wanted to let them know some of the things that stood back then, what it meant to the community of Ak-Chin because we supported Maricopa in generating their own economic development. Our people would go support the mercantile and the bar right across from it,” Chairman Robert Miguel said.
Then-chairman Louis Manuel explained to city leaders the sentimental ties the Ak-Chin had to Maricopa businesses, some that had been standing more than 80 years.
