Selling Near Project Baccara: What Goes on Your SPDS?

Glendale just approved a pre-annexation agreement for Project Bacara — two data centers and a gas power plant within a half mile of homes near Luke Air Force Base — what do I have to disclose on my Arizona SPDS if I sell nearby, and will it scare off buyers?

Disclose what you actually know, and describe it accurately: as of July 2026 this is a proposed project with several approvals still pending, not a facility under construction. Arizona sellers are expected to disclose known material facts that a buyer wouldn't readily observe, and the SPDS asks open-ended questions that capture exactly this kind of thing. There's also a second disclosure worth checking that has nothing to do with the data center — if your home sits in territory in the vicinity of a military airport, Arizona law already requires a written disclosure to your buyer regardless of what happens with this project.

One note before anything else: most coverage spells it Project Baccara, with two c's, so that's the spelling to use if you're searching for the case file. And I want to be straightforward about the limits of this post. I'm a REALTOR®, not an attorney, and what any individual seller must disclose depends on facts specific to that property and that seller's knowledge. Nothing here is legal advice. What I can do is lay out how the framework works and what I'd want a west Glendale seller to have in hand before signing anything. For anything genuinely borderline, a real estate attorney is a cheap insurance policy compared to a post-closing claim.

What Glendale Actually Approved for Project Baccara

Glendale approved a pre-annexation development agreement, not the project itself and not the annexation. Takanock LLC has proposed two data center buildings with roughly 700 megawatts of on-site natural gas generation on a site north of Luke Air Force Base near Olive Avenue and the Bullard Avenue alignment. That land currently sits in unincorporated Maricopa County — the City of Surprise's information page describes the project as proposed and names Maricopa County as the permitting body.

The distinction matters for what you tell a buyer, because as of July 2026 the picture looks like this:

This is a snapshot, not a standing report — this post won't be updated as things move, so confirm current status before repeating any of it to a buyer.

What Arizona Requires You to Disclose on the SPDS

Arizona sellers are expected to disclose known material facts about a property that a buyer would not readily discover, and the Seller's Property Disclosure Statement is the standard vehicle for it under the AAR residential resale contract. The SPDS asks about the property and its surroundings, including nuisances, noise, odors, and conditions affecting use and enjoyment, and it ends with a broad catch-all question about anything else that might materially affect a buyer's decision.

That catch-all is the one that matters here. It is deliberately open-ended, and "I answered the specific questions truthfully" has never been much of a defense when a seller knew something significant and left it off. This is where I slow sellers down, because the instinct to say as little as possible is exactly backwards. If you know a large industrial project is proposed within a half mile of your west Glendale home, the low-risk move is to say so plainly, describe it accurately as proposed with approvals pending, and point the buyer to the county and city records so they can evaluate it themselves. What you should not do is characterize the outcome — you don't know whether it gets built any more than I do. I walked through the same structure for a different industrial neighbor in my guide to selling a Waddell home near the ERMCO plant.

The Luke Air Force Base Disclosure You May Already Owe

Separate from anything about Project Baccara, Arizona law requires a seller of residential real estate to provide written disclosure to the buyer if the property sits in territory in the vicinity of a military airport. That obligation comes from A.R.S. § 28-8484, and for Luke Air Force Base the statutory territory is defined generously — ten miles to the north, south and west of the main runway, and four miles to the east.

Ten miles covers an enormous amount of west Glendale, Litchfield Park, Waddell and the Surprise border. Many sellers in that footprint have no idea the requirement exists, and it applies whether or not a data center is ever built. The Arizona Department of Real Estate publishes the airport boundary maps that show where those territories and the high noise and accident potential zones fall. Confirm your address against the map before you list, because this is a statutory disclosure rather than a judgment call. My separate look at Luke AFB noise and resale in western Glendale covers how buyers in this corridor tend to weigh the flight operations themselves.

Will Project Baccara Scare Off Glendale Buyers?

Some buyers, yes — and those are buyers who would have walked anyway once they found it themselves, which they will. West Glendale near Luke already self-selects: buyers who come here have made peace with an active fighter base overhead, and that buyer tends to evaluate a proposed project on its facts rather than on a headline.

What genuinely damages a sale is not disclosure. It's a buyer discovering a significant nearby project midway through their inspection period, after they've started to trust you. That's when a manageable conversation turns into a cancellation or a price renegotiation, because the issue stops being the data center and starts being what else you didn't mention. Accurate information up front costs you the few who were never going to close, and protects the deal with everyone else.

How I'd Handle This Disclosure on a West Glendale Listing

If I were listing a home within a mile or two of the proposed site, here is the sequence I'd want completed before we went live:

• Confirm the military airport territory: Check the property address against the Arizona Department of Real Estate airport maps to determine whether the A.R.S. § 28-8484 written disclosure applies to this sale.
• Pull the current case status: Get the present posture from Maricopa County and Glendale rather than from news coverage, since the approval picture has moved repeatedly and will move again.
• Write the SPDS entry plainly: Describe the project as proposed, note that approvals remain pending, and avoid predicting whether it gets built or what it would do to value.
• Assemble a buyer packet: Put the county case number and the city and county information pages in one place so a buyer can do their own diligence without feeling stonewalled.
• Run borderline calls past counsel: Where a seller is unsure whether something rises to material, a short consultation with a real estate attorney resolves it far more cheaply than a claim after closing.

For the broader picture of what Arizona sellers owe and when, my guide to the paperwork, disclosures and deadlines required to sell a Glendale home lays out the full sequence.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I have to disclose a proposed data center near my Glendale home?
Arizona sellers disclose known material facts a buyer would not readily observe. If you know a large project is proposed nearby, discuss it with your agent and disclose it accurately as proposed with approvals pending.

Is Project Baccara approved and under construction?
As of July 2026 it had received an environmental certificate and a military compatibility permit with conditions, but the air quality permit, plan of development and Glendale annexation were still pending. Verify current status before relying on this.

What is the Luke Air Force Base disclosure requirement?
A.R.S. § 28-8484 requires a seller of residential real estate to give written disclosure if the property lies in territory in the vicinity of a military airport. For Luke, that territory extends ten miles north, south and west and four miles east of the runway.

Will disclosing hurt my sale price?
Accurate, early disclosure generally protects a sale. The costly scenario is a buyer discovering a major nearby project on their own during the inspection period, which turns a manageable conversation into a renegotiation.

The Bottom Line

The instinct to stay quiet about something like this is understandable and it's the wrong instinct. Arizona's disclosure framework rewards sellers who put known facts in front of buyers early, and it punishes the ones who hope nobody looks. A proposed project with approvals still outstanding is a reasonable thing to describe honestly — you concede nothing by saying it exists.

So check whether the military airport disclosure applies to your address, because that one is statutory and a lot of west Glendale sellers don't realize they're inside the territory. Pull current status from the county and city rather than from a news story. Describe what's proposed without predicting the outcome. And if you're at all unsure whether something needs to go on your SPDS, spend an hour with a real estate attorney before you list rather than a year with one afterward.

I'm Kasandra Chavez, REALTOR® and Team Lead of the Chavez Dream Home Team with Real Broker, serving the West and Northwest Valley of Greater Phoenix, Arizona, and recognized among the top 5% of real estate professionals in the Greater Phoenix area. If you're preparing to sell in the Luke corridor and want help assembling a clean disclosure package before you list, I'm glad to sit down and work through it with you.