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NEWS....................... 3 The town says it’s made a smokin’ deal for an electric firetruck.
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Gilbert leads nation in luxury apartment new-builds BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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he 408-unit Crossing at Cooley Station opened in 2020 on Williams Field Road with luxury amenities such as poolside ramadas, cyber café, indoor basketball, and racquetball court and a virtual yoga studio. A year later, the 380-unit Soltra at San Tan Village opened and screamed extravagance with an onsite chef’s kitchen, a tiered pool with swim-up hospitality bar, resident lounge and bar, outdoor movie wall and a 2,000-square-foot skydeck lounge. And when the 360-unit Aiya opens adjacent to Loop 202 later this fall, it promises
even more tony offerings, like a community kitchen with espresso bar, craft beer on tap, 24-hour fitness studio with protein shake machine, lounge with ping pong and more. For the past decade, all 4,000 apartment units that came online in Gilbert are categorized as high-end, earning the town the top spot in the country for luxury apartment new-builds, according to a recent StorageCafe study. The nationwide storage space search website is part of Yardi Matrix, which develops and supports industry-leading investment and property management software for real estate companies. The other two Arizona cities landing on the top 20 luxury apartment list are Chan-
Shortages, inflation BUSINESS.............. 21 impacting Gilbert projects Gilbert, Valley housing market hurtling to balance.
BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
GETOUT................ 26 Beloved “Lion King” roars at ASU Gammage. COMMUNITY....................................... 16
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n the books is a project to rehab 140 deteriorating manholes in south Gilbert but a 17% increase since the work was budgeted two years ago means the Town will have to redo 20 fewer manholes or look for more funding. Manhole maintenance and replacement may be among the lesser town projects that have been impacted by inflation in Gilbert, which has seen millions in additional costs for several major projects. Gilbert has over 18,000 manholes located along its wastewater collections system, renovating them as the need arises.
see INFLATION page 8
dler at second place with 99% and Scottsdale, fourth place with 98.5%. Mesa ranked No. 53 with 84% of all units built in the 10year period considered luxury. Overall, Chandler saw the addition of over 6,800 new units over the past decade, while Scottsdale added 8,600 apartments to the local inventory. Luxury apartments in Chandler and Scottsdale, averaging 970 and 983 square feet, respectively, are about 200 square feet bigger than their non-luxury counterparts and feature a host of extra amenities, the study said. Overall, Arizona showed a tendency toward luxury living with Valley cities build-
see LUXURY page 6
Little author
At age 6, Kyra Mishra has already become an author, publishing a book based on her meeting Cowboy, a Shetland pony. She is among the world’s youngest published authors, as you will find in the story on page 3. (David Minton/
GSN Staff Photographer)