Life would center on the golf course that wends its way through town along Saguaro Boulevard and on Fountain Park, where the world's tallest fountain can send a jet of water up to 560 feet into the air. The town's master developer, MCO Properties Inc., says that the market changed and demanded larger houses. Most of what's available in Fountain Hills is of the stucco and tile-roof variety, but there's more variation within that style than you'll see in many recent developments. Fountain Hills is attractive to older families, professionals and retirees. The southern portion of the city is the area developed from the '50s through the '70s as a result of booming employment in aerospace and other industries.
Palm trees dot the landscape and let the sun shine through.
It's an area that attracts faculty and students from nearby ASU as well as middle-class families. New developments of the red-tile roof and stucco variety seem to be going up constantly, eating up more of the pristine desert that two decades ago wasn't even part of the city. These are all upscale developments, some of them featuring artificial lakes, others dependent on golf courses, and all basking in the splendor of the nearby mountains. You can't forget you're in the desert up here, even though most of the subdivisions have plenty of trees and greenery. With the reddish-brown rock of Camelback and Mummy mountains dominating the hilly landscape, this is a place where desert landscaping abounds.