Cameron Carter, Partner/Director Rose Law Group Transactional Department weighs in on Sierra Reserve purchase

Sierra Reserve, Scottsdale

By Kristena Hansen | Phoenix Business Journal

Last week we learned the 223-acre Sierra Reserve project in north Scottsdale had been scooped up by billionaire Bob Parsons, pulling the plug on developer Lyle Anderson’s long-awaited plans there for about 250 luxury homes and a boutique hotel.

Neither Parsons or Anderson were willing to disclose the price paid for the vacant site, which abuts Parsons’ Scotts­dale National Golf Club at 122nd Street and Dynamite Boulevard. Sources told the Business Real Estate Weekly of Arizona the transaction was between $55 million and $67 million — more than double the $25 million Anderson paid in 2006.

“The offer was substantial enough for us to not do the project,” Anderson, chairman of Lyle Anderson Cos., said in an interview last week.

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Cameron Carter can be reached at ccarter@roselawgroup.com