How Mike Ingram brought together building blocks of Maricopa
by Raquel Hendrickson | inMaricopa
Mike Ingram is not crazy or stupid.
That may be obvious to observers now, but 25 years ago, many of Arizona’s most knowledgeable movers and shakers thought he was nuts. Now the chairman of El Dorado Holdings, which he founded in 1992, Ingram became one of the most influential people forming the modern history of Maricopa.
After creating Rancho El Dorado and sister subdivisions The Villages and the Lakes, El Dorado Holdings still has about 8,000 acres in and around Maricopa set for residential and commercial development. It has thousands more acres in other communities it is also developing.
