Glendale Good or Bad? (Phoenix, Peoria: condos, job, homes)

[deena647]

Does anyone have info. about Glendale?.....This is one of the cities my husbands job might send us to......We will not have the time to check it out in person.....Please help....Blessings

[MotleyCrew]

The north part of Glendale is very nice. Arrowhead ranch would be the area I would look for a home. You are within a short drive to N. Peoria, which has some very good schools and many homes available as well. Sonoran Mountain Ranch is a nice bedroom community and has plenty of builders homes to choose from. You do not mention if you are buying or renting. If you check the Thread right at the top of the first page, that mentions City by City, you can see a posting on Glendale.

[sheena]

Originally Posted by MotleyCrew

The north part of Glendale is very nice. Arrowhead ranch would be the area I would look for a home. You are within a short drive to N. Peoria, which has some very good schools and many homes available as well. Sonoran Mountain Ranch is a nice bedroom community and has plenty of builders homes to choose from. You do not mention if you are buying or renting. If you check the Thread right at the top of the first page, that mentions City by City, you can see a posting on Glendale.

Agree agree........

[lola8822]

depending on your price range....wich vary's greatly in the different parts of glendale....the farther north you go, generally, the better the area. I love the area off of 67th avenue north of beardsley....(really between 51st avenue all the way over into north peoria (83rd avenue) really nice homes....also really nice neighborhoods north of Happy Valley Road on 67th avenue. Just pretty much....go as north as you can would be my recomendation

[Magnum Mike]

I don't live in Glendale, but here's my views on it. Before reading my reply, I thought this WAV file would be very appropriate to get you in a sort of a "Good, Bad (and Ugly)" mode (or mood?) to read my post... http://www.members.cox.net/mss292/gbugly03.wav (broken link) So click on the above link before reading (don't worry, it doesn't have any viruses)

Okay, The Good about Glendale - It's a growing community that's trying to get out of that old reputation of a small dusty farming town, and they have done a very good job at that with the 2 new professional sports venues (Coyotes' Glendale Arena and Arizona Cardinal.. I mean Phoenix University Stadium) - Not to mention Arrowhead Mall, Cabela's, Luke Airforce Base that's been an icon in Glendale since the days of WWII in the 1940's and will remain there for the foreseable generations.

The Bad: Roads are still primitive and construction projects on many streets, which should have been done long before Glendale Arena and PHX University Stadium were built. Access to downtown Glendale is very limited and there aren't any freeways that take you directly into the downtown area, unless you consider Grand Ave/US 60 a "Freeway". It might eventually be a true freeway (without stop lights) one of these days, but I'm not sure when that's going to happen.

The Ugly: The areas around downtown. The city hasn't done a very good job rennovating or tearing down old dilapidated buildings that don't need to be there. One perfect example is the old mill or factory building that's on the southwest corner of 51st Ave & Glendale. I haven't been in that area since January, and the last time I drove by there (coming back from Cabela's), the building was still standing. It's an old ugly building that needs to go away. There are also many old car dealership lots on Glendale Ave that have moved away to better locations, and the city is now stuck with several empty lots. I don't know of any future plans to replace those lots with something better, like condos. I prefer condos, either low or mid-rise, on the stretch of Glendale Ave, from 43rd through 67th, which will definitely revitalize that area. I certainly don't want to see more strip malls on that stretch. We need another strip mall in that area like we need a thick polar winter coat in July in Phoenix, when it's 115 degrees!

[user123]

This is a good city my mother lives their. She says it is a little crowded for her liking. It is a rather big city. If you are looking for a home I have found a website that has great information on homes in that area. NewHomesSection.com

[nitram]

Originally Posted by Magnum Mike

I don't live in Glendale, but here's my views on it. Before reading my reply, I thought this WAV file would be very appropriate to get you in a sort of a "Good, Bad (and Ugly)" mode (or mood?) to read my post... http://www.members.cox.net/mss292/gbugly03.wav (broken link) So click on the above link before reading (don't worry, it doesn't have any viruses)

Okay, The Good about Glendale - It's a growing community that's trying to get out of that old reputation of a small dusty farming town, and they have done a very good job at that with the 2 new professional sports venues (Coyotes' Glendale Arena and Arizona Cardinal.. I mean Phoenix University Stadium) - Not to mention Arrowhead Mall, Cabela's, Luke Airforce Base that's been an icon in Glendale since the days of WWII in the 1940's and will remain there for the foreseable generations.

The Bad: Roads are still primitive and construction projects on many streets, which should have been done long before Glendale Arena and PHX University Stadium were built. Access to downtown Glendale is very limited and there aren't any freeways that take you directly into the downtown area, unless you consider Grand Ave/US 60 a "Freeway". It might eventually be a true freeway (without stop lights) one of these days, but I'm not sure when that's going to happen.

The Ugly: The areas around downtown. The city hasn't done a very good job rennovating or tearing down old dilapidated buildings that don't need to be there. One perfect example is the old mill or factory building that's on the southwest corner of 51st Ave & Glendale. I haven't been in that area since January, and the last time I drove by there (coming back from Cabela's), the building was still standing. It's an old ugly building that needs to go away. There are also many old car dealership lots on Glendale Ave that have moved away to better locations, and the city is now stuck with several empty lots. I don't know of any future plans to replace those lots with something better, like condos. I prefer condos, either low or mid-rise, on the stretch of Glendale Ave, from 43rd through 67th, which will definitely revitalize that area. I certainly don't want to see more strip malls on that stretch. We need another strip mall in that area like we need a thick polar winter coat in July in Phoenix, when it's 115 degrees!

You can apply this same scenario to most towns in the Phoenix Metro area.