By Melissa St. Aude for Casa Grande Dispatch
Map credit: ADOT
Casa Grande could someday sit in the center of an integrated manufacturing and travel corridor linking Arizona border communities to cities to the north via the future Interstate 11.
Arizona Department of Transportation planner Michael Kies updated the Casa Grande City Council about the ongoing I-11 study. It includes an examination of the costs and benefits of creating a new travel corridor (AZBEX, Mar. 3, Mar. 11).
While the key aim of the study was to plan a high-priority link between Phoenix and Las Vegas, Kies said planners included ideas for potentially extending the potential highway north to Canada and south to Mexico.
Linking the borders via a transportation corridor would enhance commerce, tourism and international trade, he said, as well as create a manufacturing corridor.
“We are recommending that a new trade corridor should start in Nogales,” Kies told the council.
Among the plans for the southern segment of the corridor are linking routes from Nogales to Tucson then Phoenix, potentially traveling through Casa Grande.
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