TREND Report, September 2009

 The Academy Village in the Rincon Valley.  For a concise summary and description of The Academy Village, just click on the link below:

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Academy Village In the News

TREND report, September 2009 issue

The Academy Village in the Rincon Valley by Dr. Henry Koffler

Where To Retire Magazine, July/August 2007

The Academy Village —The heart of this active/adult community is the Arizona Senior Academy.

Satisfaction Magazine, March/April 2006

Drawn by sports, culture and classs, adults head back to college towns. The residences? Ultra-luxe by any measure.

Builder/Architect Magazine, February 2006

Doucette Communities — Premier specialty builder/developer celebrates a great 25 years in Tucson.

Living with the Desert

Living with the Desert

Time Magazine, April 4, 2005
By Terry McCarthy/Tucson

time_magazineA bobcat regularly saunters up the arroyo leading to Paul and Carolyn Zeiger’s desert property in Pima County, Ariz, and leaps onto the flat roof of their adobe-style house. “The bobcat jumps around up there and takes care of the mice,” says Carolyn, 61, a clinical psychologist from Boulder, Colo…the Zeigers have developed a deep love of the desert in the five years since they moved here.

Twenty miles from Tucson, their house looks out on a plain of saguaro cacti stretching to the Rincon Mountains. At night the stars shine brightly without competition from human lighting. Paul, 68, a semiretired software developer,  gets all the hiking and bike riding he wants, and Carolyn attends lectures to learn how to grow desert plants in their yard. “You have to learn to adjust in the desert,” says Carolyn…