One of the last open stretches of land inside Chandler's sprawling Allred Park Place office campus is being eyed for apartments and retail, a shift that would bring housing to the long-standing business park for the first time. The Chandler Planning & Zoning Commission recommended approval last Wednesday to rezone an 18-acre property within the 180-acre development for multifamily housing, teeing up a City Council review.
The project, known as the Station at Park Place, would rise on one of the last remaining vacant parcels of the mixed-use development in Chandler's Price Corridor, according to abc15.com. The rezoning request now heads to the Chandler City Council for further review, the outlet reports.
Allred Park Place has for two decades been built around office, research and flex space rather than housing. As CoStar News reports, the campus could gain a residential component for the first time if the apartment plan moves forward, marking a notable change for a property that is home to some of Phoenix's top employers, per a caption cited in that report.
A Two-Decade Buildout Nears Its Final Parcels
Douglas Allred Company has been developing Allred Park Place for roughly 20 years, since acquiring the first 72-acre parcel of land in 2007, the ABC15 report notes. The company is now partnering with Atlanta-based Wood Partners to develop the apartments on the site, the same report states. Douglas Allred Company is also listed under construction in CoStar's reporting on the project.
The campus itself spans 3 million square feet of business park space, situated at the intersection of the 101 Loop and 202 Loop, according to a development announcement from Douglas Allred Co. Its own website describes a connected campus featuring low-rise office, R&D/flex space and mid-rise office buildings, along with onsite dining and five hotels, all with immediate freeway access, per allredparkplace.com.
Chandler's Build-Out Squeeze Pushes Creative Housing Fixes
The timing lines up with a broader challenge facing Chandler. The city is described as roughly 94% built out, according to CoStar's reporting, with officials looking for ways to add housing in a market that has little vacant land left. Chandler is also characterized as one of the city's largest employment centers, per the same CoStar report, which makes squeezing new housing into an existing employment hub like Allred Park Place notably significant.
A City of Chandler housing needs assessment similarly points to tight supply conditions, stating there is an undersupply of homes for the ownership market and that the city had reached 94.22% build-out as of July 1, 2025, according to a report from the City of Chandler. A separate city housing update found that since January 2020, Chandler had added 2,287 single-family homes and 3,082 multifamily units, per chandleraz.gov.
The proposed apartments and retail buildings would occupy one of the final undeveloped parcels in the development, a sign of how little room Chandler has left to grow outward. The City Council review that follows the planning commission's recommendation will determine whether the rezoning, and the residential use it would allow, moves ahead.
