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Attainable market rent garden style community with predominately 2 ad 3 bedrooms. Purpose built for Hispanic renter profile. Unique floor plans including a 2 bed/2 bath bunk room plan and a 2 bed/1.5 bath plan. Also featured a large outdoor ramada party patio area, dog park and computer lab for children. Bilingual web site, leasing brochure, collateral materials, and leases.

There had not been a new apartment community built in south Phoenix for 15 years before Visiquest saw the need and created Colonia del Sol. The property was financed with an assumable HUD 221(d)4 loan and sold approximately two years following completion.

Gold Nugget award winning luxury townhome community situated on 7-acre hillside site. Originally occupied by a small old apartment building and littered with debris. Visiquest rezoned and platted the property where others had previously failed, vowing to provide art and architecture consistent with the western themes and values of the community.

Visiquest obtained an Army Corps of Engineers 404 permit, salvaged the native plant materials, carefully graded the site, reconstructed a wash, built 2 large box culverts, installed all onsite utilities, paving and nearly 2,000’ of retaining wall. Pool/spa/ramada/firepit perched on a knoll with 360 degree views including Black Mountain and the Surrey Hills.

This pre-1960’s constructed strip center was in desperate need of a major remodel inside and out. It consisted of three separate buildings with zero lot line construction. The property was not compliant with current zoning, parking, sign, or construction codes. Individual tenant pole signs littered the street frontage. Electric wires spidered out from a central wooden pole tenuously located in the rear parking lot.

Visiquest stripped the existing facades and built one new unified façade while keeping the existing tenants open for business. Walls were reinforced with steel and concrete to extend parapets to their required unified height. New lentils were added to accommodate new storefront doors and windows. The parking lots in front and back were removed and replaced with new subgrade and asphalt.

A new electrical Service Entrance Section was added to unify all the buildings and each suite was given a new electric panel. Power lines were undergrounded, and new transformers were added to the site. Sewer lines were all replaced, and trash enclosures were constructed. New signage was added, and tenant improvements were completed shortly thereafter.

Visiquest worked closely with the Bell family to monetize this legacy asset which was purchased in 1960. A significant amount of the property was hillside and not readily developable due to the City of Phoenix hillside zoning ordinance. Visiquest successfully rezoned 9-acres of the property to C-2 with height and density waivers allowing for 3-stories and 26 dwelling units per acre. In addition, Visiquest received a hillside grading waiver and building setback variances to permit development of a senior living community.

The balance of the land, 30-acres, was conceptually site planned for 14 custom home sites that reached nearly to the top of Shaw Butte. Visiquest then worked with the Phoenix Mountain Preservation Council and surrounding neighbors to convince the City to acquire the land for inclusion into the surrounding Phoenix Mountain Preserve.

First new residential subdivision in “South Phoenix” in 15 years. Two previous developers failed to get zoning for the property. The Groves at South Mountain helped to establish the Baseline corridor plan. Homebuyers were camped out on the property overnight(s) waiting for new lot releases. The subdivision’s phenomenal success ignited major new residential and commercial development along the Baseline corridor and throughout the South Mountain area.

First voluntary subdivision builder guidelines including color blocking, garage orientation, plan designation and minimum interior quality standards. The property was a former fruit orchard, and the owners buried the trees on-site in unmarked areas. Ground penetrating radar was used to locate the pits and material was removed. Runoff from nearby mountains was accounted for using unique open space design featuring Grasscrete, weirs and flood mitigation basins. This design also created a series of eye pleasing open cul-de-sacs throughout the community.

One of the first mini-master planned communities in Chandler. Featured unique land plan with emphasis on pedestrian connections between multiple builder subdivisions, middle school, and adjacent City park (hence the name “Park Promenade”). Themed landscaping, fencing and signage, including strategically located park benches, created upscale family friendly environment.

Planning, zoning, and platting was accomplished together with oversight of community development. Implemented one of the first Arizona rolling lot option finance programs for builders. Negotiated sale of land to school district.