TUCSON, ARIZONA (June 15, 2026) — The redevelopment of the former Foothills Mall is entering a visible new phase as Uptown begins taking shape as an “Urban Resort Village” featuring residences, a lifestyle hotel, restaurants, retailers, and public gathering spaces in northwest Tucson.

Bourn Companies is transforming the 51-acre site at 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd., near the northwest corner of La Cholla Boulevard and Ina Road, into Uptown, a large-scale mixed-use district the developer is marketing as Southern Arizona’s first “Urban Resort Village.”

The master plan calls for approximately 2.5 million square feet of residential, retail, restaurant, hospitality, entertainment, office, and wellness uses arranged around pedestrian-oriented streets and gathering areas. Plans also include outdoor performance and event spaces, landscaped promenades, an event lawn, a splash pad, and other public spaces intended to keep the property active beyond traditional retail hours.

Unlike the enclosed shopping mall it replaces, Uptown is being designed as a walkable neighborhood where residents, hotel guests, employees, and visitors can move among apartments, restaurants, stores, entertainment venues, and public spaces.

The first residential component, The Astrie, is scheduled to begin welcoming residents this month. The five-story, 157-unit luxury apartment community at 7450 N. Uptown Drive offers studio, one- and two-bedroom residences, including several layouts with dens.

The apartments feature contemporary kitchens, quartz countertops, smart thermostats, keyless entry, in-unit washers and dryers, and private balconies in selected units. The community is positioned directly along Uptown’s planned promenade, giving residents access to the district’s restaurants, retail, and entertainment offerings as they open.

Another major component is the Tempo by Hilton Tucson Uptown, a five-story, 144-room lifestyle hotel under construction at 7400 N. Uptown Drive. The project reached its topping-out milestone in March, marking completion of the hotel’s vertical structure. Opening is now anticipated in January 2027.

The hotel will be operated by Valencia Hotel Group and is being designed around Hilton’s wellness-focused Tempo concept. Plans include approximately 3,000 square feet of flexible meeting and event space, a boardroom, an indoor-outdoor bar, a second-level swimming pool, and a fitness center.

Five specialized wellness rooms will include Peloton bicycles in each room. The hotel’s restaurant and beverage component, Moonsong Bar + Café, is planned as a destination for hotel guests, Uptown residents and the broader community.

EBCO General Contractors is serving as the general contractor for the hotel. Mayse & Associates is the architect of record, Studio 11 Design is providing hospitality interior design, and Stovelight is overseeing hospitality purchasing and procurement.

Uptown has also announced three new food-and-beverage tenants expected to open in 2027.

Los Milics Vineyards will establish a second Tucson-area tasting room at Uptown, complementing its downtown location and its vineyard and tasting room in Elgin. The concept is expected to pair Los Milics wines with a food program that reflects the vineyard’s Southern Arizona identity.

Omaha-based Flagship Restaurant Group will bring two of its restaurant concepts, Clio and Memoir, to the development.

Clio is a Mediterranean-inspired restaurant centered on mezze, spreads, salads, and entrées, supported by a cocktail program and European wine list. Memoir is an American grill concept offering classic dishes and sushi in a more intimate dining environment.

Barnes & Noble, one of the property’s longstanding tenants, has committed to space within Uptown. The bookseller currently operates at 7325 N. La Cholla Blvd. Other businesses that remained active during the mall’s redevelopment include AMC Theatres and several restaurants and retailers in the surviving perimeter buildings.

The transformation represents the second time Bourn Companies has undertaken a major repositioning of the Foothills Mall property.

Foothills Mall originally opened in 1982 as an upscale enclosed shopping center. Bourn Companies and its partners acquired the struggling property in 1994, when occupancy had fallen to approximately 12 percent. The ownership group converted it into an outlet and promotional retail center, added restaurants and entertainment uses, and increased occupancy to approximately 95 percent before selling the mall in 1999.

Bourn Companies and FHM Partners reacquired the property in 2016 after the mall began losing tenants again. The opening of Tucson Premium Outlets in Marana in 2015 accelerated the decline, as several outlet retailers relocated to the newer center. Online shopping and broader changes in consumer habits also weakened the traditional enclosed-mall model.

Demolition of much of the mall began in 2023. More than 350,000 square feet of the former structure was removed, clearing space for a denser combination of residential, hospitality, and commercial development.

Earlier plans envisioned as many as 1,000 apartments, approximately 500,000 square feet of retail space, more than 500 hotel rooms, 25 food-and-beverage establishments, and six distinctive outdoor environments at full buildout. Buildings of up to 10 stories have been approved for portions of the property.

The development is expected to proceed in multiple phases, with The Astrie representing the first major residential delivery, followed by the Tempo hotel and an expanding collection of dining, entertainment, retail, and public-space components.

With its combination of residences, hospitality, and experiential retail, Uptown represents one of the largest efforts in Southern Arizona to replace an obsolete regional mall with a denser, mixed-use destination intended to function throughout the day and into the evening.

TUCSON, AZ (June 15, 2026) — The City of Tucson’s new Office of Community and Economic Impact is intended to better coordinate the City’s economic-development, workforce, prosperity, cultural, and sustainability efforts with the outside organizations already working in those areas throughout the region to enhance Regional Economic Coordination.

The Tucson Mayor and Council approved the organizational change on June 9, placing the office directly under City Manager Tim Thomure. Lane Mandle, currently Thomure’s chief of staff, will lead the office as executive management professional.

During the council presentation, Thomure and Mandle emphasized that Tucson is not starting from scratch or creating an entirely new set of programs. The City already has initiatives, action plans, and partnerships addressing business attraction and retention, workforce development, generational poverty, cultural vitality, sustainability, and equity.

The purpose of the new office is to connect those efforts more deliberately, both within City government and with Tucson’s regional partners.

Thomure described economic opportunity, climate resilience, cultural vitality, and equity as interconnected contributors to Tucson’s long-term prosperity and quality of life. Bringing the programs together under one office is intended to reduce internal silos, improve communication, and provide a clearer structure for coordinating the City’s role in broader community efforts.

Mandle placed particular emphasis on the relationships that already exist throughout the region. Much of the work has been happening for years through cooperation among City departments, Pima County, educational institutions, workforce organizations, nonprofits, and business groups.

She also acknowledged that consistent coordination among the City and its outside partners has been lacking for some time. The new office is intended to rebuild those connections and establish a more deliberate and reliable way for the City to work with regional partners.

Economic development in Tucson does not happen through City Hall alone. It involves Pima County, the Chamber of Southern Arizona, Rio Nuevo, Pima Community College, the University of Arizona, Pima JTED, workforce-development organizations, nonprofit service providers, employers, and cultural organizations.

Many already work with the City, but often through different departments, initiatives, or individual relationships. The new office could give those partners a clearer point of contact inside the City government and a more consistent way to coordinate efforts that cross organizational boundaries.

The Prosperity Initiative is one example. The regional effort brings together the City, Pima County, and nonprofit partners working to reduce generational poverty and expand economic opportunity throughout the county. Under the new structure, the City’s participation in that initiative will be more closely connected to its economic development, workforce, cultural, and sustainability functions.

The objective is not for the City to take over the work of Pima County, educational institutions, economic-development organizations, or the private sector. It is to connect programs that often address different parts of the same economic or community challenge.

Business attraction, for example, involves more than identifying a site and announcing a new employer. A company considering Tucson may need assistance with permitting, infrastructure, utilities, workforce recruitment, job training, transportation, housing, and educational partnerships.

Those responsibilities are spread across numerous public agencies, educational institutions, and private organizations. No single City department or outside entity controls all of them.

Traditional economic-development functions will remain part of the new structure. The Office of Economic Initiatives, including its responsibilities for business attraction, business retention, and investment from Mexico, will be incorporated into the office. Cultural Affairs, sustainability efforts, the Office of Equity, and the Prosperity Initiative will also be aligned under the same leadership.

Bringing those functions together does not mean every program has the same mission. It recognizes that their work frequently overlaps and that the City may be more effective when departments and outside partners understand how their efforts fit together.

The reorganization does not add another layer to the City’s adopted budget, according to City officials. Instead, it realigns existing programs and personnel under a common management structure.

Its success will depend on whether the office can improve communication among City departments, strengthen coordination with Pima County and other regional partners, clarify responsibilities, and convert better alignment into measurable economic results.

For Tucson’s business community, the most significant promise may be the recognition that economic development cannot be achieved by a single department, government, or organization acting alone.

The goal is not simply to put several City programs under one administrative roof. It is to make the relationships among them—and with Tucson’s outside partners—work better.

Watch the Tucson Mayor and City Council Meeting June 09, 2026

Scottsdale, Ariz.  (June 12, 2026) – CBRE negotiated the sale of Residences Kierland, a 290-unit luxury multifamily community in North Scottsdale. CBRE’s Asher Gunter, Matt Pesch and Austin Groen represented the seller, Quarterra.  Bruce Francis, Doug Birrell, Bob Ybarra, Shaun Moothart and Nick Santangelo with CBRE’s Debt & Structured Finance practice facilitated debt financing for the buyer, MacNaughton.

“Residences Kierland is a generational core asset in a submarket defined by premier retail and a concentration of high-wage employment,” said Gunter, Vice Chairman at CBRE. “Quarterra built an exceptional property, and the strong investor interest reflected the community’s appeal.”

Completed in 2022, Residences Kierland’s one- and two-bedroom floorplans feature gourmet kitchens with quartz countertops, a GE Café appliance package, wine fridges, vinyl plank flooring, illuminated bathroom mirrors and smart lock keyless entry systems. Additionally, the property features seven two-story townhomes, each averaging 2,000 square feet, with direct access and a two-car garage.

The community has an elevated pool deck with private cabanas, a bike room and a pet spa with a full washing station and electric car chargers. Residents also have access to a 24-hour fitness center and yoga studio.

Residences Kierland also features The Retreat, a full-service spa. The Retreat includes heated loungers for relaxation, a nail salon, individual massage rooms, a sauna and steam room with aroma-infused oils, a cool-mist room, a salt therapy room and hot and cool pools in a secluded outdoor space.

MacNaughton is a premier, family-owned real estate investment and development firm operating in the residential, condominium, hospitality, retail and commercial asset classes in Hawaii and the continental United States.

“The Kierland corridor is one of the most irreplaceable residential addresses in the American Sun Belt,” said MacNaughton CEO Ian MacNaughton. “Residences Kierland fits exactly the profile we seek: an asset defined not just by four walls and amenities, but by the cultural gravity of the place it calls home. This acquisition expands MacNaughton’s portfolio in Metro Phoenix and is a compelling addition to our growing mix of existing and under-development multifamily communities across the U.S.”

Quarterra is a real estate investment firm focused on creating long-term value by developing high-quality multifamily communities nationwide. With 12 regional offices across 20 states, Quarterra combines institutional scale with local market expertise to deliver purposefully designed rental communities in high-growth markets.

“Residences Kierland is a marquee community where no expenses were spared in the design, ensuring a top-of-the-market asset that is commensurate with the quality of the prime location in Scottsdale,” said Dan Tilton, Senior Director of Development for the Quarterra Southwest Division.  “Quarterra couldn’t be more pleased to sell this prized asset to our good friends at MacNaughton and to entrust them with this community for the foreseeable future. Our Quarterra development and construction team, along with our partners at Arqline, did a phenomenal job designing, constructing, and managing this resort-quality community.”

Residences Kierland is in the heart of Kierland’s high-end retail core. Kierland Commons and Scottsdale Quarter are blocks away from the community, offering residents high-street retail and fine-dining destinations.