Florence, Arizona

8 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 TOWN OF FLORENCE , AR I ZONA Transportation and transportation access are incredibly important to Pinal County, but especially to Florence given that it sits at the nexus of three major transportation corridors: two State highways (Routes 287 and 79) and one large County highway (Hunt highway). The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) and Federal Highway Administration recently finalized plans for a new freeway corridor that will link Interstate 10 in the South, to U.S. Route 60 in the North. This represents a key project for the Town, which will gain at a minimum three interchange locations, providing housing and commercial growth to the area. “During the last residential boom, there were quite a few developers that came out and looked at critical pieces of land and started doing the engineering and platting work,” Vallender says. “When the economy tanked the last time, those pieces of land stayed dormant. But now, with the Phoenix market getting so hot, there’s been