Halo Vista | Arizona

Halo Vista is among the most ambitious development undertakings in Arizona’s history — a $7 billion, 2,300-acre mixed-use community designed from the ground up to function as a city within a city. Breaking ground in April 2026 adjacent to the TSMC semiconductor campus in North Phoenix, the development will ultimately deliver approximately 30 million square feet of space across industrial, office, retail, hospitality, and residential uses — with capacity to support more than 70,000 jobs and approximately 9,000 residential units.

For SWABACK, Halo Vista is not a new question. Decades ago, the firm spent twenty-five years helping shape the Village of Kohler, Wisconsin — one of America’s great planned industrial communities, built on the conviction that workers deserve not just wages but a real place to live. Halo Vista asks the same fundamental question in a different century: what does a great manufacturing city actually look like? SWABACK is leading master planning and landscape architecture across the full project, with architecture services planned for future phases.

The plan is organized around a series of distinct but interconnected districts, each designed to serve a specific role within a larger, coherent ecosystem. The Forge Tech District anchors the development’s advanced manufacturing ambitions, scaled for production-ready operations with direct supply chain access to TSMC Supplier Sites Arizona. Adjacent to it, the Forge Innovation Park provides a more flexible environment for R&D, light industrial, and technology-driven users — a collaborative setting calibrated for prototyping, applied testing, and workforce access. The Sonoran Oasis Research & Technology Park sits at the center of the Phoenix Semiconductor Corridor, connecting industry, talent, and education through scalable innovation facilities and an academic partnership pipeline.

At the community scale, Lumen Square delivers the retail and hospitality anchor — flagship dining, lodging, and destination retail serving both the surrounding region and a growing on-site workforce. Town Center forms the urban heart: a walkable, mixed-use district where residential living, everyday convenience, and neighborhood energy converge into something that feels less like a planned development and more like a place that grew here.

The underlying planning conviction is integration — a community where research, technology, commerce, and daily life are not separated by use, but woven together by design. The American factory town never really died. It needed to be reimagined. And in the desert outside Phoenix, that work is underway.