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5 years ago Maricopa opened the $10.6 million Maricopa Library & Cultural Center next door to City Hall at White-and- Parker and Bowlin Roads, creating a 27,000-square-foot community hub more than three times larger than the previous library. Designed as part library and part gathering space, the facility debuted with meeting rooms, maker spaces, performance areas and an atrium for community events. Built as the centerpiece of the city’s planned 140-acre City Center district, it may soon be joined by a proposed 55-acre public space called “Park 48” and a planned “Restaurant Row.”
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A Tucson man died after his vehicle crossed all four lanes of State Route 347 and crashed into a backyard pool in Rancho El Dorado. Maricopa police said witnesses reported the southbound vehicle leaving the roadway, going through a dirt embankment and a block wall before landing in the pool of a home on Courtney Drive in Cobblestone Farms, which abuts the city’s northern limit. The driver, 59-year- old David McBride, suffered a heart attack and later died at Chandler Regional Hospital. The crash marked the fifth fatality on SR 347 that week.
Maricopa City Council approved purchasing 70 acres from Estrella Gin Company for $3.16 million in what staff said would become the “core area of downtown.” The Heritage District land was intended for city maintenance and transportation facilities, including a potential public works yard and transit hub north of the Union Pacific tracks. Today, Estrella Gin Business Park at Edison and Loma Roads remains incomplete. Construction is expected to resume with 82 units, enough for 22 retail shops and 60 office or storage spaces across 10 buildings. However, the 2025 proposal remains under city council review.
Maricopa Unified School District leaders and city officials gathered at the site of the future Alterra neighborhood, where construction had just begun, for a pre-grand- opening celebration of the new Maricopa Elementary School. Then-Principal Lynnette Michalski presented items students selected for a time capsule to be buried at the school’s grand opening, including yearbooks, photos, newspapers and drawings imagining Maricopa 25 years in the future. The capsule is set to be reopened in April 2031, marking the school’s “Moment in Time” 25 years after it was sealed.
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