Mesa's Master-Planned Dobson Ranch Grapples with Middle Age

This article was originally published on Tuesday, September 10, 2013 and is only presented for historical purposes. The information below may no longer be relevant or accurate.

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.