Ahwatukee Real Estate
A Great Place to Live
Living in Ahwatukee offers a comfortable, “small town” intimate life style while enjoying the plentiful amenities of nearby big city life. Due to it’s surroundings, Ahwatukee is actually isolated from the other villages that make up the City of Phoenix. To the north lies South Mountain and the massive South Mountain Park. Interstate 10 separates it from the cities of Chandler, Guadalupe and Tempe; and the Gila River Indian Community surrounds it on the south and west sides. Some people have been known to refer to Ahwatukee as the “world’s largest cul-de-sac!” It covers over 2,000 miles, with a population approaching 100,000 people.
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The land that makes up current day Ahwatukee was originally settled in the early 1900’s by Dr. and Mrs. Ames. With their passing, the land was willed to St. Luke’s Hospital and later purchased by Miss Helen Brinton in 1935. Miss Brinton renamed the property after a Crowe word meaning “land in the next valley”. It’s of interest to note that the Crow Indians were actually in Wyoming, not Arizona, but Miss Brinton spent a good deal of time in Wyoming. When she died in 1961, the property was sold to a land syndicate. In 1971, the Presley Development Company (yes, that Presley [Elvis’ uncle]) purchased the property and built one of the first master planned communities in Arizona.
If you rarely want to leave your secluded village, you wouldn’t have to. Ahwatukee boasts plentiful shopping, restaurants, country clubs, movie theatres, and public recreation centers. For recreation such as hiking, biking and horseback riding, look no further than your northern border at South Mountain Park. As the largest city park in the United States, you can find plenty to do and plenty of room to do it in. On the southern border, Wild Horse Pass Casino and Resort offers fine dining, golf and gambling in a beautiful desert setting.
