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QC chief targets 10 challenges for his force BY MARK MORAN Tribune Staff Writer
D BUSINESS...............16 Town OKs new regulations on shortterm rentals.
GETOUT ................ 20 A gem of a show coming to the East Valley.
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espite countless successes and first-ever accomplishments in its first year of existence, Queen Creek Police Chief Randy Brice said there is still a lot to do to get the department where he wants it to be as it nears its first anniversary Jan. 11. “This was an extraordinary endeavor for a lot of different reasons,” Brice said. “There’s no step-by-step manual, and to do that in the middle of a pandemic with COVID and supply chains and a lot of the national conversation about policing, in general, it was quite the lift.” Prior to the department’s formation, Queen Creek was patrolled by the Maricopa
County Sheriff’s Office. Brice said that was a large task for a department that stretched thin by the sheer lack of officers covering a huge swath of geography. Brice anticipates a quick expansion of the town’s police force, which currently has 74 sworn police officers and 14 administration staff. “The next five years we are really looking see
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Queen Creek Police Chief Randy Brice will be marking his department’s first year of operation Jan. 10, and while he is proud of its accomplishments, he says the force has a long way to get to where he wants it. (Tribune file photo)
2023 will see a spurt of new businesses in town BY MARK MORAN Tribune Staff Writer
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s Queen Creek’s growth will likely continue this year, new businesses are expected to follow the new roofs and the new roads that the town is opening
for them.. “All these new roadways create new economic corridors,” said Doreen Cott, Queen Creek’s economic development director the last 17 years. “And those hard corners create opportunities for neighborhood retail and shopping centers.
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“We anticipate there will be some new retail and restaurants, new neighborhood-business-type services coming in the year ahead.” Among larger projects, Cott points to a see
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