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Maracay Homes will celebrate the opening of its newest community in the East Valley, Villagio in Queen Creek, on Saturday, April 13, from noon to 3 p.m. The new community is located southeast of Queen Creek and Sossaman roads.

Conveniently situated in the heart of one of the Valley’s fastest-growing towns, Maracay Homes’ Villagio features six all-new one- and two-story floor plans ranging in size from approximately 2,300 to 4,000 square feet.  Layouts – which buyers can customize according to their individual needs using Maracay Homes' FlexDesign® options – offer three to seven bedrooms and two to 4.5 bathrooms, plus three-car garages.

Each home in this Queen Creek new home community is ENERGYSTAR® certified and built according to Maracay Homes' LivingSmart® program for maximum performance and cost efficiency. Prices start from the mid $200s.

Villagio, one of 13 new-home communities Maracay Homes will open throughout Arizona this year, is expected to be a welcome addition to the East Valley real estate landscape. Planned with Arizona’s outdoor lifestyle in mind, many of Villagio’s 135 home sites enjoy easy access to the Queen Creek nature trail and feature a desirable north-south exposure.

We wish you a Happy Birthday Blue! This Saturday get decked out and dolled up in your most fabulous white attire to celebrate Blue Martini's 4 year Anniversay.  It will be a night filled with live music, great company, and a cheers to another year here, in the Valley.

For more info visit... www.bluemartinilounge.com

AZFoothills.com would like to congratulate Lauren Gilger, a 2011 graduate of Arizona State University's Cronkite School, who just won a prestigious George Foster Peabody Award. Gilger was acknowledged for an ABC15 investigative series exposing a deadly acceleration defect in Ford Escapes that led to a massive recall of the SUVs. The Peabody was one of only four given this year to local U.S. news stations and just the third won by a Phoenix station in more than 20 years.

During her time at ASU, Gilger was a lead reporter on Cronkite NewsWatch. She was part of a reporting team that produced in-depth stories along the Dominican Republic-Haiti border, earning a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. And she was a fellow in the Carnegie-Knight News21 program, spending a summer traveling back and forth to the U.S.-Mexican border to produce stories on the plight of immigrant women caught in deportation limbo. Gilger was also named Outstanding Graduate Student at the May 2011 graduation ceremonies.