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Queen Creek officials outline downtown core projects, new restaurants and town-owned development site
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Economic development staff told the Planning and Zoning Commission the town’s downtown core has new connector roads, event-ready public space and several incoming restaurants and mixed-use projects; town-owned land between new roadways will be marketed by RFP when council directs.
Queen Creek economic development staff on Tuesday updated the Planning and Zoning Commission on downtown redevelopment work, including recently opened connector streets, temporary event space, several incoming restaurants and a town-owned parcel the town intends to market for private development when council directs.
The update, delivered by Economic Development Director Doreen Cott, said the town’s earlier 2017 town-center planning work narrowed focus to a more walkable downtown core and that recent infrastructure investments are creating that pattern on the ground. “When we updated that plan, we realized that the larger town center had really developed and we wanted to focus in on more of that walkable downtown,” Cott said.
Cott described three new connector roadways — Munoz, Summers Place and Aldecoa — that link Old Ellsworth Road to the Loop and create smaller, walkable blocks. Summers Place is being used as a temporary roadway while the town prepares…
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