TUCSON, AZ — DeCook Properties (William De Cook, manager) dba E-Konomy Pool Service & Supplies purchased the building at 6020 East Speedway Blvd. in Tucson for $2.1 million ($146 PSF). The buyer has been a tenant at the 14,369-square-foot building on 4.2 acres since February 2015, and exercised a lease purchase option in this transaction.

In service since 1961, E-Konomy Pool Service & Supplies provides a full range of maintenance, renovation, and repair services for in-ground pools and spas in Tucson. E-Konomy Pool Service & Supplies carries an extensive inventory of pool supplies, such as chemicals and parts, as well as other pool products at two retail locations.

E-Konomy Pool Service & Supplies has a second location at 3821 West Costco Drive #115 in Marana.

There are so many new products and technological advances in pool care these days, it can often be difficult to decide pool needs. E-Konomy Pool Service & Supplies’ goal is to help customers sort through the unnecessary products and select exactly what they need. Using modern technology to maximize the quality and efficiency of its work. E-Konomy’s experienced staff offers sound advice in making a selection from high quality inventory items including Spas and Hot tubs by Bullfrog and DreamMaker.

As part of the Pool Pro Network, E-Konomy Pool Service & Supplies can provide the best pool products and most dependable customer service.

Roy Drachman with Roy Drachman Realty Company of Tucson represented the buyer in the sale and leasing of the property. Drachman also represented the seller, The Emich Family Second Limited Partnership, LLP of Tucson.

For more information, Drachman should be reached at 520.748.8400.

To learn more, see RED Comp #4236.

A California investor, Wayne Comfort, has invested in three mobile home communities in Central Tucson for an aggregate total of $7.35 million.

The Lamplighter Mobile Home Park at 3431 N Flowing Wells Road in Tucson sold for $2.4 million ($35,820 per space). The 67-site park is a three-star, all age community in the desirable Flowing Wells neighborhood. Built in 1971 on 5.65 acres, the park has site density of 11.86 sites per acre and a mix of single- and double-wide homes. The property was 85% occupied at time of sale.

Prince Mobile Home Park at 38 West Prince Road in Tucson sold for $2.05 million ($33,064 per space). The 62-site park includes 46 mobile home site, 12 RV sites and 3 apartment rentals (plus office) on a total 4.6 acres. Amenities include an office, community swimming pool, laundry room, guest parking, shower facility and BBQ and picnic area. The property has a block wall perimeter fencing and a wrought iron security fence with self-closing gates. The property was 82% occupied at time of sale.

The same investor, Wayne Comfort, also purchased Catalina Vista Mobile Home Park at 3344 E Kleindale Road in Tucson earlier in the year for $2.9 million ($35,366 per space). This property has 82-home sites on 6.34 acres. Amenities include an air-conditioned clubhouse with pool, laundry facility, and on site management. The property had two vacancies or 97% occupancy at time of sale.

Richard Spreiser with KW Commercial in Tucson handled all three transactions that were off market deals.

For more information, Spreiser should be reached at 520.850.1640.

To learn more, see RED Comp #3810, #4223 and #4224.

TUCSON, AZ — Seed giant, Monsanto Corp. bought 155.65-acres of agricultural land in Avra Valley northwest of Tucson last week for $3,741,510 ($24,038 per acre) from Avra Plantation, Inc. (Herb Kai, president). The property is located at the southwest corner of Sanders Road Extension and Twin Peaks Road in Marana.

The Arizona Daily Star reports the purchase came nearly two months after Monsanto reported plans to build a greenhouse on seven acres in the Tucson area when the company told the Star it would hire 30 to 60 employees and its representatives said it would invest $100 million in the project.

The transaction follows on the heels of German drug and chemical group Bayer sealing a deal to purchase Monsanto for $66 billion, a deal that could represent the biggest takeover agreement by a German company and include paying off a $9 billion debt for Monsanto. After months of wrangling, Bayer won over Monsanto’s board. But this massive deal still faces a tough row to hoe before its vast profit potential can be harvested.

Now, some are predicting the merger could also mean the takeover of the marijuana industry.

Questions remain about what, if any, operations or projects Monsanto plans for the site as well as why Monsanto closed on the property prior to inking a tax incentive deal with Pima County.

Natural News reports Monsanto has an intimate business relationship with Scotts Miracle-Gro, that manufactures RoundUp, and Scotts has looked to capitalize on the expanding pot industry in states where the plant has been legalized or decriminalized. The company’s CEO, Jim Hagadorn, has stated his intentions to spend up to $500 million to completely buy out the marijuana industry.

Bayer is already partnered with GW Pharmaceuticals, a company based in the United Kingdom that grows cannabis and produces medicines from its compounds.

Insiders believe that Monsanto and Bayer are interested in creating GMO marijuana.

Billionaire investor George Soros, who owns 500,000 shares of Monsanto stock, previously waged a campaign to legalize pot in Uruguay so that he could invest in the plant.

Michael Straumietis, founder and owner of hydroponics nutrients company Advanced Nutrients, has warned the marijuana community for some time about Monsanto plans for a  corporate takeover of the marijuana industry.”

Straumietis claims, “South American governmental insiders report that Monsanto is working there on genetically-modified cannabis, along with pharmaceuticalizing THC, other cannabinoids, and terpenoids.”

The hydroponics nutrients owner warns that if biotech giants get involved in the cannabis industry, they’ll monopolize it the same way they have the seed, medicine and agricultural chemical industries.

“These corporations have reduced the variety and availability of native seeds. They genetically modify crops so farmers have to buy new seeds every year, and use corporate chemicals like RoundUp to grow them. They’d do the same thing with GMO marijuana,” said Straumietis.

The purchase in Avra Valley could mean a lot of things, and a tax incentive would expand the county’s foreign trade zone to include the Monsanto site. Inclusion in the zone would reduce import duties and other benefits besides property tax abatements for Monsanto.

A looming question that remains is why such a cash rich company would be considered for Pima County tax incentives?  One environmental activist group, Rising Tide Tucson, has announced it will fight tax breaks for Monsanto.