West Valley Construction Boom heating up (Phoenix, Scottsdale: houses, tech jobs, living in)

[SoCalCpl2]

So it looks like the people who keep saying Buckeye is tooo far away from Phoenix metro are wrong.... Looking at the map of Phoenix it now looks like Buckeye is not very far from the 303/10 interchange at all....

[Kevloves]

Originally Posted by locolife

There's two parts of the West side, the part that fits your description of the above and the part that feels so far away it might as well be in California.

But in all seriousness, it'll eventually buildup but it's going to be much slower than what anyone originally thought when places like Westgate were built. There are some great neighborhoods out there but you've really get to not care about things like proximity to downtown, public transit access, walkable streets. There's a shift to infill living happening for emptynesters and millennials that's going to force the west valley cities to re-think how they build out the area. I don't think another .5 million single family tract homes in master planned communities with every chain store and restaurant imaginable will be a strong selling point anymore. But I have been wrong before...

Do you know if most communities that get built are just straight single family homes and no townhomes or apartments. Because where I live some developers try to mix it up and design the community in a more urban friendly way.

[DetroitN8V]

Originally Posted by SoCalCpl2

So it looks like the people who keep saying Buckeye is tooo far away from Phoenix metro are wrong.... Looking at the map of Phoenix it now looks like Buckeye is not very far from the 303/10 interchange at all....

What map are you looking at? Buckeye is in the middle of nowhere.

[JGMotorsport64]

Originally Posted by DetroitN8V

What map are you looking at? Buckeye is in the middle of nowhere.

Just you wait til they build that 404

[DetroitN8V]

Originally Posted by JGMotorsport64

Just you wait til they build that 404

But it's so close to CA!

[jimj]

Originally Posted by Kevloves

Do you know if most communities that get built are just straight single family homes and no townhomes or apartments. Because where I live some developers try to mix it up and design the community in a more urban friendly way.

The planned Prasada development (not the mall) which is currently slated to be located between Peoria/Cactus West of Cotton Rd is to be a mixed use development. SFH,PUD and Apartments/Condo.

[broncosilly]

Some of you wrote in about the distribution centers along the 303 and 60...........BAM.....now it makes sense.
Thanks for that.


Distribution centers, new interchange 303 and the 10, the new 11 going to Las Vegas from Phoenix. Again, if my facts are correct the 60 will be the 11.


I also understand that Cox moved a major storage and distribution portion of their business to the Miracopa area from California. If my sources are correct.


Me thinks Wickenburg will be a "burg no longer". Since the 11 will be going thru that area, it will have more rapid access to people that like ranching and like building ranches, there is a lot of good flat ranching areas west and northwest of downtown. I want to write ten to fifteen miles out but I'm guessing.

[new2colo]

Originally Posted by broncosilly

Some of you wrote in about the distribution centers along the 303 and 60...........BAM.....now it makes sense.
Thanks for that.


Distribution centers, new interchange 303 and the 10, the new 11 going to Las Vegas from Phoenix. Again, if my facts are correct the 60 will be the 11.


I also understand that Cox moved a major storage and distribution portion of their business to the Miracopa area from California. If my sources are correct.


Me thinks Wickenburg will be a "burg no longer". Since the 11 will be going thru that area, it will have more rapid access to people that like ranching and like building ranches, there is a lot of good flat ranching areas west and northwest of downtown. I want to write ten to fifteen miles out but I'm guessing.

The Interstate 11 Freeway is decades away from ever becoming reality unless the state finds hundreds of millions of dollars under the bed or decides that tolls roads are an acceptable way to get transportation projects rolling. ADOT undertook an environmental study to decide where the 11 Freeway will go. Hwy 93 has been designated the future I-11 corridor. I-11 is being studied as a corridor west of the White Tank mountains.

[lewdog_5]

Originally Posted by Java Jolt

I hope this puts to rest some of the nasty rumors about the west valley being full of crime-ridden ghettos or dumpy trashy neighborhoods.

It's true. Stay out of our ghetto west valley areas. There's enough crime here to make you feel like you're in Detroit. Look elsewhere to live.

[LBTRS]

Originally Posted by DetroitN8V

What map are you looking at? Buckeye is in the middle of nowhere.

You really need to get out more. It is a suburb in the Phoenix metro area, hardly the middle of nowhere. Describing anything in the Phoenix metro area as "middle of nowhere" is ridiculous.