For 60 years, The Vistal links (formerly the Thunderbirds Golf Club) offered golfing at the base of Phoenix’s South Mountain. When the course closed a few years back, that opened up a lot of empty space for development. Now we know that a whole lot of homes will be replacing those greens.

Per AZ Central, Maracay Homes plans to develop a gated community called Vistal at South Mountain on the site of the former golf course. Early neighborhood plans consist of 650 single-family residences ranging between 2,000 to 4,000 square feet. While plans have not been finalized, a later phase could also include two-story condos. Prices are expected to range between $300,000 and more than $500,000. 

The developer says it's working with a local architectural firm to design modern-style homes influenced by Phoenix’s midcentury aesthetic.

Maracay paid $10.5 million for the 83-acre property a few years back. The city rezoned it for residential construction last year. The property sits just north of the 16,000-acre South Mountain Park.

“It’s an amazing piece of land that we want to build a special community on,” Maracay President Andy Warren told AZ Central. “It’s also an infill site close to many of the Valley’s new jobs that are concentrated in downtown Phoenix and Tempe.”

Home sales in Vistal are expected to begin in 2019.