A New Campus at Willie

When Williams Air Force Base closed in 1993, local communities worked together to create a reuse plan for Willie that would stimulate economic redevelopment of the region and the State of Arizona. The two major components of the reuse plan approved by the governor and the U.S. Air Force were a commercial airport and the Williams Education, Research, and Training Campus anchored by Arizona State University. This eBook is a collaborative review of the early years of Willie's transition to a new university campus, Arizona State University East (now ASU Polytechnic), and the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. It is an expanded version of A New Campus for a New Century (Amazon, 2021) embedded with 11 videos with 67 minutes of viewing time and 13 photo galleries with 116 photos documenting Willie's emergence as a powerful economic development enterprise with a bright future.