Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport-area home plan

Several thousand people will eventually live next door to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport under a plan unveiled Thursday for the Mesa City Council. It's the second major housing development proposed for land formerly occupied by the General Motors Desert Proving Ground, which ceased operating in 2009. The project, Pacific Proving Grounds North, would be built on some of the 1,800 acres that Phoenix businessman William Levine purchased from GM for $45 million in 2004. Levine is selling most of the northern 484 acres to Scottsdale-based Harvard Investments, a subsidiary of Hill Cos. of Canada. The land lies east of Ellsworth Road, south of the Ray Road alignment and north of the future Gateway Freeway, also known as Arizona 24. It is virtually across the street from a terminal that will be built in the next few years near Ellsworth Road, on the east side of the airport.

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