5 developers float plans for Bell Road, 94th Street property

The Bell Road corridor near 94th Street would take on a new look under each of the five development proposals Scottsdale is considering for 80 acres of city-owned land. Three proposals are for apartment complexes, with one of them including nearly 100 single-family homes. The other two plans are more unusual. One is for a wakeboard water park that uses electrical motors to pull participants across two man-made lakes totaling 7.4 acres. Another proposal is for Stagecoach Gap, a Western-themed town to include the Scottsdale Museum of the West. Scottsdale has postponed its review of each of the five plans until after April 5, when proposals are due for a new multipurpose building for WestWorld, said Mark Hunsberger, Scottsdale revitalization specialist. That project south of Bell Road could have an impact on what is developed on the city's 80-acre site north of Bell and is split by 94th Street. Stagecoach Gap would be a Western version of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia with blacksmiths and craftsmen in period costumes making cowboy boots, said Jim Bruner, Scottsdale Museum of the West board chairman. The nonprofit group Bruner heads has been trying to raise funds to develop a Western museum downtown. That is still a goal but a smaller museum at Stagecoach Gap is a more immediate opportunity because financing might be available for the entire $38 million Western village, he said. It would include a 30,000-square-foot museum, theater, movie house, restaurant, pool hall and horse stables.

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