UPDATE September 8, 2008

Inside Tucson Business

The Residences at the Ritz-Carlton Dove Mountain has opened two of three models as part of the rollout of its luxury home project, which features a $220 million first phase of 91 single-family homes and 16 exclusive custom estate home sites.

The homes, which include access to the Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Courses, range in price from $1.5 million to $3.5 million.  Custom estate home sites also are available from $750,000 to $1.8 million.  When built out, the Residences will include 300 homes and 20 estate home sites.

The project is a collaboration between Arizona developers Cottonwood Properties and Greenbrier Southwest Corporation, with the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company LLC. as manager.

The Residences are being designed by Kevin B. Howard architects.  Gary Stoddard and Associates is doing the landscape architecturre.  The general contractor is DM Residential Construction LLC.

All of the Residences will either border the golf course or have vistas of the Tortolita Mountains.  A signature element of each home is a disappeaing built wall that, with a push of a button, can be replaced by a retractable glass window wall that erases the boundary between the inside and the Sonoran Desert outside.

Each home will come with Ritz-Carlton services that include concierge services, personalized home management, landscaping, housekeeping, valet, catering and room service from the resort, and access to golf, fitness, swimming and tennis facilities.  In addition, the Ritz-Carlton offers to check the owner's home when they are out of town and arrange for maintenance services.