City plans to purchase Apache Junction Rodeo Grounds
The city has a recreation and public purpose lease for the 20-acre rodeo grounds at 1590 E. Lost Dutchman Blvd. and is interested in purchasing the land./Arianna Grainey
The Apache Junction Rodeo Grounds, home to annual events such as Lost Dutchman Days, is on property leased by the city from the Bureau of Land Management in the U.S. Department of the Interior.
That may change soon as the City Council on Oct. 6 approved a resolution in a consent agenda with other items authorizing the city to enter into an agreement with BLM for preparatory rodeo grounds purchase costs.
Processing is to cost approximately $85,395, with $64,395 from BLM, which includes 21.5%, or $11,395, in administrative overhead; and $21,000 from Apache Junction, according to an appendix with the agreement.
