If you wanted to tell the story of Arizona using one 2,000-acre piece of real estate, Dobson Ranch would be as good a piece as any.

In the blink of history’s eye, it was transformed from raw desert to cattle ranch to master-planned suburban utopia, following Arizona’s swift arc from rusticity to modernity. MCC is mentioned in this article.

Mesa's master-planned Dobson Ranch grapples with middle age.pdf