The land is 35 miles west of Phoenix, with most of it now desertand rocks. Ross Smith, senior vice president with Grubb & Ellisin Phoenix, says the land does have other attributes. "The firstthing that's going on out there is water," he says. "It has a goodwater supply and you don't always find that in the desert."

Second, he adds, is the land has Interstate 10 frontage. "It'sin the path of growth from Phoenix," he explains. "Someday there'lllikely be rooftops out there."

Robert McGeorge, a broker with Don Bennett & AssociatesRealty in Goodyear, AZ, says Harquahala Valley is also an energyand power corridor between California and Arizona. "There are a lotof KV lines between the two states," he says. "The main interestfor a lot of the land buyers is solar. They're interested inhooking into the KV lines for distribution of solar power."