Volume 12 • Number 21
The Voice of the Catalina Foothills
December 28, 2022
INSIDE UA Compost Cats invites Tucson to mediate food waste | Page 7
Athlete of the Week: Lesly Hernandez’ | Page 11
New Year's Guide: End-ofyear celebrations abound in Tucson’ | Inside
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Supervisors honor Chaffee’s Jacobson House
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Special to Foothills News he Jacobson House — a significant modernist property designed by celebrated 20th-century Arizona architect Judith Chafee — was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and, by unanimous vote of the Pima County Board of Supervisors, designated a Pima County Historic Landmark. The County Historic Landmark designation will protect this important nationally and internationally recognized modernist home for future generations. The Jacobson House is located off Campbell Avenue in the heart of Tucson’s Catalina Foothills. The single-family residential concrete and glass house was conceived of and designed starting in 1975 and constructed in 1977. The house is an important foundational example of the work of master architect Judith Chafee, FAIA (1932-98), and an outstand-
ing representation of Tucson’s Modern architectural movement. Commissioned by clients Art and Joan Jacobson, the house featured a limited material palette of concrete, painted concrete block, aluminum frame windows and glass. These elements are masterfully combined to produce an environmentally responsive design expressed with distinctive interior and exterior zonal geometric design. The exposed site-cast concrete structural beams supported on walls of painted reinforced concrete block create spans for glass windows walls, sliding glass doors and clerestory ribbon windows that allow diffused light to enter the space. Both the physical orientation and bioclimatic site design were a direct response to the desert environment, climate, views, natural setting, and the seasonal locaSee JACOBSON Page 6
The Jacobson House has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a landmark. (David Olsen/Submitted)
La Encantada shopping center boosts tenant list BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Tucson Local Media Staff
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ecovas, Levi’s and Psycho Bunny and True Food Kitchen will soon find a home in La Encantada. Next year, True Food Kitchen will begin serving its seasonally inspired dishes and natural beverages on the second level. The restaurant was founded in Phoenix in 2008 by Dr. Andrew Weil, a doctor of integrated medicine and founder/director of the UA’s Andrew Weil Center for Integra-
tive Medicine. The menu emphasizes fresh and simple ingredients in entrées that highlight the natural health benefits and flavors of each ingredient. Diners can look forward to nutrient-rich staples, responsibly sourced proteins and little-known superfoods in creative and flavorful dishes, as well as thoughtfully crafted cocktails. “We’re looking forward to adding True Food Kitchen and its cutting-edge wellness
menu to our dining options at La Encantada,” said Toby Horvath, president of Town West Realty. “Our guests — from local Tucsonans to winter visitors and tourists, University of Arizona families and alum — love having healthy dining options that support their active, outdoor lifestyles, and True Food Kitchen meets that demand, especially given the variety of gluten-friendly, vegetarian See ENCANTADA Page 8