Location, Location, Location: Tucson Arizona
May 1, 2003
•Population: 35,000, which has grown 345% in the past decade.
•Oro Valley is an incorporated town and is one of the safest communities in southeastern Arizona. With a very visible police force, locals know to never exceed the posted speed limits downtown.
•Thirty minutes from downtown Tucson and the Tucson International Airport.
•About 15 minutes north is Miraval, a 135-acre spa.
•Stone Canyon: An exclusive gated golf community on 1,400 acres, between the Santa Catalina and Tortolita mountain ranges. Estates are on one- to five-acre parcels. There is a new time-limited adjustment on lot prices, modified to reflect current market trends. The Jay Morrish–designed course is the only desert golf course listed in Golf Digest’s 2001 Top 10 Best New Private Courses.
•La Reserve: A secluded gated community, no golf, with high-end homesites and estates, many nestled below the Pusch Ridge area of the northwest Santa Catalina Mountains.
Realtor 101
•Jennifer Hunter, Hunter Douglas Properties, 520.577.7160, www.hunterdouglasproperty.com;
•Janell Jellison, Long Realty, 520.918.5469, www.janelljellison.com;
•Sharon Walsh, Coldwell Banker Success Southwest, 520.444.5533, www.tucsonarizonahomes.com
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