Arizona’s ‘megapolitan’ plan for Sun Corridor off to slow start

It’s been nearly four years since Arizona State University’s Morrison Institute for Public Policy published “Megapolitan — Arizona’s Sun Corridor,” a report predicting the eventual evolution of an economic powerhouse stretching diagonally from the middle of Yavapai County to the U.S.-Mexico border. The report, a more in-depth take on the decades-old supposition that Phoenix and Tucson one day will unite into a “super-size” metropolitan area, is not so much about the occurrence of a physical merger; too much federal and American Indian land stands in the way of Yavapai, Maricopa, Pinal and Pima counties actually growing into one another. Rather, ...

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