230 Riverside Drive New York, NY

Alex Argueta is the president of The Remington Group and was hired to promote Anam's Willow Springs project, a large bedroom-community for Tucson proposed to be built about 10 miles north of Oracle Junction. 

Argueta has been promoting Willow Springs claiming it will bring economic prosperity to the region because "high tech businesses" and "environmental research companies" will re-locate to the project after it is built. 

In June, Pinal County Supervisor Lionel D. Ruiz bought an ad in The San Manuel Miner promoting the Anam project and echoing Argueta's claims of economic benefit for the region.

Remington's web site supported the claims of economic benefit by listing "MacKenzie and Associates" as the firm hired for "Business & Economic Development Consulting" for Willow Springs.

Argueta's site listed the address of the firm as 230 Riverside Drive, New York, NY.  However, mail sent to "MacKenzie and Associates" at that address was returned as undeliverable.

A check of the building in July revealed the address to be a residential apartment building.  There were no tenants named "MacKenzie and Associates" or even "MacKenzie" listed on the mailboxes in the lobby. 

There is no phone listing for "MacKenzie and Associates" in New York.

Argueta was seen at the Nov. 11 hearing on the Anam lawsuit against the county in Florence in the company of another Anam employee, Bruce MacKenzie.  Could his name have been an inspiration for Argueta's "MacKenzie and Associates?"

Argueta and MacKenzie left before I could ask them about the purported Willow Springs economic consulting firm formerly known as "MacKenzie and Associates."

A check of Remington's web site Dec 20 showed that "MacKenzie and Associates" listing had been removed.