The Casa Grande Lakes neighborhood at Pinal Avenue and Kortsen Road offers a waterfront lifestyle unique for Casa Grande. Residents ride electric pontoon boats on the 10-acre-plus lake surface and can fish there, too.
“We’re in the desert, so any time you get on the water it’s pretty awesome,” says Morris Mennenga, who built the majority of its 150 or so homes through his company, Discovery Building Companies, and lived there for nearly 20 years.
The subdivision got its start in 1988 after the lake was dug and the soil used to build up the initial lots, Mennenga says, but sales didn’t really take off until the mid-‘90s, after he began to invest and build custom and spec homes.
It has a mix of patio, single-family and custom-built homes, and most lots have backyards overlooking the shore of the two-fingered lake, with the branches joining at the picturesque community clubhouse
“The homes in there retain their value really well because of the lake, and even the ones off the lake do, too,” Mennenga said. Many original or early owners still call it home as they enjoy what they can’t get anywhere else.
Ideally situated between Pinal Avenue and the back nine of Dave White Municipal Golf Course, Casa Grande Lakes is 2 miles away from Florence Boulevard and 6 miles from Interstate 10. Come on in, the water and living’s so fine!
