While the piece of land is technically in Phoenix, the roads feeding the site will require approval of both Phoenix and Scottsdale, along with ADOT. As I've mentioned a number of times, the municipalities have to cooperate to get major projects completed. If Scottsdale is against this project they can make this very difficult to impossible to execute without huge infrastructure improvements off the 64th street interchange in Phoenix and may not have contiguous access to the site. This also does not include the potential disruption and likely lawsuits from Desert Ridge and Grayhawk residents. The politics in this are going to get ugly and will make the Tempe shenanigans look tame in comparison. There are multiple municipalities and communities involved, and several of them have very deep pockets. The NIMBY set has yet to get fired up like it did in Tempe. When it does here this is going to be very hard to sell, especially in the midst of an election cycle. Timing couldn't be worse for Meruelo and the Coyotes.
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