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Fort Lowell, AZ Real Estate
Today, the Fort Lowell area is bustling with neighborhoods, parks, places to eat and places to shop. Most notably, the Fort Lowell Furniture district is the best place to find modern, rustic, and southwest home furnishings. There are also quite a few parks in this area, including the Lighthouse YMCA, two public parks with soccer and baseball fields, empty fields, and a public pool, and right off Fort Lowell and Dodge is the Brandi Fenton Memorial Park, one of the largest and most functional parks in Tucson. You can play soccer, splash around in the water park, climb slides on the playground, join a pick-up game of basketball or take your dog to one of Tucson's off-leash areas where dogs are free to run, play and socialize. The Fort Lowell area is also populated heavily with shopping centers including many employers, such as medical offices, law offices and advertising firms. It's also just a few miles away from all the shopping and services in the foothills. Students living in the Fort Lowell area are zoned to the Tucson Unified School District, and can take advantage of a short commute to many area after-school programs, such as local sports teams, the YMCA and Boys and Girls Clubs. Homes in this area were mostly built in the 1950s, when the big housing boom began in Tucson. There are a few areas with the more modern Santa Fe stucco homes and rock yards, but most homes in this area are brick style ranch homes. Zoning laws don't restrict the use of modular homes, so you'll also find many mobile and modular home parks interspersed throughout the neighborhoods. Because the homes were built in the 1950s, many have been refurbished or remodeled, and most have larger lots than more recent homes. While neighborhood and editions are not formally laid out, many streets have formed neighborhood association and watch programs to prevent crime and the spread of drugs. The Dodge/Flower Neighborhood association was recently used as a national model for neighborhood clean-up after they went from having a serious neighborhood meth problem to nearly meth-free in right around five years.
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Before the 1800s, the Hohokam people, a Native American tribe, inhabited the land that was later reclaimed as "Camp Lowell" in the Arizona Territory. Camp Lowell served as a supply base after the Civil War, then turned into a sanitarium, and then was sold to landowner after landowner before being put on the national historic register in 1978. To this day, some of the original parts of the Fort still stand, even amidst playgrounds, playing fields and a public swimming pool.
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