 |
||
|
|
||
|
Visitors Center Promotes Sun City |
||
|
The original Sun City is still the best-known active
retirement community in the United States, if not the world. When the Del E. Webb Corporation finished Sun City and shifted its attention to Sun City West, it became apparent that the original Sun City needed to actively promote and market itself if it hoped to compete for new residents with the newer, more elaborate retirement communities being constructed in Arizona and other parts of the nation. In the late 1980s, a group of farsighted residents began laying the groundwork for what would eventually become the Sun City Visitors Center. In October 1980 the Sun City Ambassadors, a dedicated group of concerned residents and business people who wanted to ensure that Sun City remained a world-class retirement location, was organized. The group’s sole purpose was to continue what Del Webb had previously done when the company was still involved with Sun City: Promote the community nationwide to prospective retirees. The Ambassador’s most ambitious and rewarding project became the Sun City Visitors Center, located in the Promenade Shopping Center on the southwest corner of 99th Avenue and Bell Road. (Since this article was written the Visitors Center has moved to the Bell Recreation Center.) Staffed by volunteers, the center offers a wealth of information about housing, health care facilities, leisure activities and amenities available throughout Sun City. About 14,000 people visit the Visitors Center each year and numerous others make contact by telephone or in writing. The center is also getting a great response from its website www.suncityaz.org. Hundreds of information packets are sent out each month to all 50 states, Canada, and other parts of the world. In addition to the above activities, the Visitors Center host dozens of groups, from all around the world, who are interested in learning about the community. Sun City from it very beginning has been looked at as the prototype of active senior living. And the world today looks to Sun City as they seek answers to their ever increasing concerns regarding senior living. Residents are invited to join the Sun City Ambassadors or visit the Visitors Center. Volunteers are always needed to help with the never-ending challenge of sharing to future generations the beauty of Sun City and the joy of living in the nation’s first active adult retirement community. |
||
|
Contact Us
|
||