Price Road
Price Road was named after a local government official, Arthur Ernest Price. He was the first local Justice of the Peace and drafted the town's first charter. He owned the land near the Chandler Fashion Square Mall. Price Road is located next to the Loop 101 and runs on both side of the freeway.
Arthur Price was born in Washington in 1889. He graduated from Washington State University in 1909 and then went to Harvard Law School. He met Louise Chandler when he arrived in Chandler, Arizona. Because World War II had begun and Price had enlisted, he was sent to Arkansas to wait for deployment. While he was in Arkansas, Louise and her father, Harry Chandler, went to see him before he left. Louise and Arthur were married before he left for the war. Louise was the niece of Dr. A. J. Chandler, who was the founder of the City of Chandler. He was essential to the town because of his hard work and ingenuity in building a canal system and developing the town.
After Arthur Price returned from World War I, he worked as attorney and began acquiring land. He owned land primarily in west Chandler where the Intel plants and the Chandler Fashion Mall are located today. Arthur Price, the first local Justice of the Peace, drafted the town's first charter, and in May of 1920, the citizens voted to incorporate and become the Town of Ch