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AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2015
The Gigabit Life:
San Travesia,
Scottsdale, Ariz.
This month, BroadBand Communities showcases San
Travesia, an elegant new community located near
Scottsdale's quaint Old Town. Developer Mark-Taylor
wanted the apartments to have the best of everything,
including Internet access, so San Travesia became one
of the frst Cox G1GABLAST communities. "It's pretty
fantastic," said one new resident of the gigabit-speed,
fber-to-the-unit service. Thanks to John Carlson of
Mark-Taylor and Denise Tremmel of Cox Communications
for providing the information for this profle.
By Masha Zager / Broadband Communities
T
hings are percolating in the McDowell corridor,
a formerly rundown, 8-square-mile portion
of southern Scottsdale. Ever since the mall
that anchored the area closed, the city has promoted
revitalization there; today, private capital is pouring in,
and new jobs are opening up. Te McDowell corridor
has great potential because it's close to everything – the
Phoenix beltways, the Sky Harbor Airport, Arizona
State University, the quaint Old Town (Scottsdale's
downtown area) with its fnancial and health care
institutions, and the cities of Phoenix and Tempe.
"It's a phenomenal location," says John Carlson,
vice president of the residential division of Mark-Taylor,
one of Arizona's largest apartment developers. So
phenomenal, in fact, that Mark-Taylor chose it as the site
of a Next Generation community – the designation it
gives its newer assets, whose living units, Carlson says,
PROPERTY OF THE MONTH
are "more like modern, custom homes"
than like apartments.
Assembling the 29-acre site was a
complex undertaking – Mark-Taylor
had to redevelop several parcels,
including the dilapidated mall – and
took several years. It was worth the
efort, Carlson says: "We felt this
was the ideal product for an urban
environment like south Scottsdale.
An opportunity with this much
space is quite rare. We leveraged the
expansiveness by building the Valley's
largest rental units. … We believe
residents appreciate that apartments
don't have to be compact just because
they're in urban locations."