The Casa Grande Ruins National Monument soon will be bordered by a Wal-Mart Supercenter on the east and possibly a federal holding prison on the west.
Houses already exist south of the ruins.
Casa Grande, a four-story building, is its centerpiece. But, failing that, we were glad to have them do some testing. What concerns archaeologists more now are plans for the western edge of the ruins. I'm pretty certain that there are archaeological remains in that area. So, if the federal prison goes in there, work would have to be done to excavate those remains.