Marana Aquatic & Recreation Center (MARC)

MARANA, ARIZ. (July 18, 2025) – The Town of Marana has acquired a 3.11-acre vacant parcel at 13416 and 13420 N. Sandario Road for $1,000,000, purchasing the land from Marana Healthcare in an off-market transaction that closed on June 27. The strategically located site sits directly adjacent to the recently opened Marana Aquatic & Recreation Center (MARC) and is being held for future municipal investment and potential expansion.

Currently zoned A (Agricultural) under Marana’s Land Development Code, the property offers flexibility for future use but would require rezoning for any non-agricultural development. The parcel lies within Marana’s rapidly growing Northwest submarket, near Interstate 10 and Cortaro Farms Road, in a corridor earmarked for long-term civic and recreational growth.

The adjacent MARC, a 120,000-square-foot regional recreation facility, officially opened in May 2025 and includes indoor and outdoor amenities such as a lap pool, zero-depth-entry pool, splash pad, waterslides, fitness and weight rooms, a walking track, and multi-purpose community space. Funded in part by a dedicated half-cent sales tax, the MARC represents a $64 million investment in the health, wellness, and recreational needs of Marana residents.

While the Town reported it has no immediate development plans for the newly acquired parcel, officials cited its proximity to the MARC as a key reason for the purchase. Future uses under consideration may include overflow parking, support facilities, event space, or programmatic expansion areas to meet growing public demand.

No brokers were involved in the sale. The acquisition underscores Marana’s proactive land-use strategy to secure property near major public assets, ensuring flexibility in future civic development and reinforcing long-term community planning objectives.

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MARANA, ARIZ. (July 15, 2025) – Mark Biery, JD, CCIM, recently closed on Beehive Homes assisted living Marana, a 20-bed assisted living facility and the existing operating business, at 6180 W. Mamie Kai Drive in Marana, for $2,350,000. The business was $75,000, and the real estate was $2,275,000.

Beehive Homes of Marana, which opened for business in 2014, was designed, built, and operated by MM&P Healthcare Properties, LLC, a family-owned private development and investment group. The Beehive Homes name is a locally-owned franchise, with the corporate Beehive office located in Idaho.

“Financing was a challenge with this deal,” Biery said. “The business had not been performing as it should have since Covid – the pandemic really hit the senior housing industry hard – and the partners were all off-site. There were two LLC’s, with one holding the real estate, and one operating the business. The business LLC paid the holding LLC rent. That’s a pretty typical structure for this industry.

“The owners accepted residents with a subsidized ALTCS (Medicaid) plan, and that kept the building fuller, but ALTCS pays less than operators can charge privately-paying residents.

“The buyer approached quite a few banks, and the breaking-even profit-and-loss statements didn’t give them the debt-coverage-ratio they wanted. Even though the buyer has a large senior housing portfolio that performs well, the banks wanted the business to support its own mortgage, without cash from other properties. We eventually found a bank that did the mortgage.” According to Biery, the 40,000 SF parcel has enough room to construct a second, identical building, increasing the total capacity to 40 beds. The buyer will drop the Beehive name and will operate the facility locally.

For more information, you can reach Mark Biery at: (520)235-2531, or [email protected]

MARANA, ARIZ. (July 10, 2025) – Lennar Homes has closed on a strategic acquisition of 58 platted and engineered lots within the Twin Peaks Vista subdivision for the total sum of $1,740,000 ($30,000 per lot). Twin Peaks Vista subdivision is located at the intersection of Twin Peaks Road and Decker Road, just north of Linda Vista Boulevard and east of Interstate 10 in Marana.

According to town plat maps, these 58 residential lots are laid out under the Twin Peaks Vista Specific Plan, each conforming to a minimum lot size of 6,000 square feet, and average lot size 7,855 square feet.

Twin Peaks Vista sits within one of Marana’s most sought-after growth areas, offering convenient access to both Interstate 10 and the emerging Preserve at Twin Peaks community—already under development since 2019 by Lennar https://realestatedaily-news.com/lennar-closes-on-195-lot-prelim-plat-for-6-7-million-in-marana/. The location benefits from planned infrastructure, proximity to existing Lennar neighborhoods, and strong regional demand for new single-family homes.

This acquisition aligns with Lennar’s strategy of securing well-positioned land parcels with engineered lots, enabling faster rollout of model homes, reduced permitting time, and cost control. Industry tracking confirms Lennar’s active expansion in the Twin Peaks corridor, including the nearby 195-lot Preserve at Twin Peaks community, purchased for approximately $6.7 million ($34,400 per lot).

With this pull-through of engineered inventory, Lennar can accelerate homebuilding supply to meet the growing demand of buyers in Marana and Tucson. The Twin Peaks Vista lots are poised to support new phases of single-family or multi-family development as infrastructure schedules permit.

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