Maryvale area in Phoenix (Maricopa: renter, crime, new house)

[Discovery1]

Is there anyone tell me what area is consider Maryvale ? A map would be helpful.
I heard its a really bad area quite often in this forum and no idea where it is. i want to know where about so i can avoid driving by if posible.
Thank you.

[MaxPower123]

Originally Posted by Discovery1

i want to know where about so i can avoid driving by if posible.
Thank you.

You don't really have to do that.

It's not like one of these neighborhoods here: https://www.city-data.com/forum/city-...s-america.html

[exit2lef]

I'd say the rough boundaries are I-10 on the south, 83rd Avenue on the west, Camelback Road on the north and 35th Avenue on the east.

Keep in mind, though, that you are unlikely to drive through the neighborhood unless you a reason to go there. Besides, there are few, if any, neighborhoods in Phoenix that are dangerous to drive through. Broad six-lane arterial streets see to that. The danger is more a factor for those who live in rough areas.

[Finger Laker]

yeah - no danger driving through maryvale and if you like spring training I would definitely recommend checking out a brewers game at their stadium

also, you probably wouldn't accidently drive through it

[las vegas drunk]

Although Maryvale is run down, it really is not all that dangerous. My grandparents bought a brand new house right across the street from Maryvale Mall back in 1955. They lived there until 2005. They never had any crime problems whatsoever.

[Ponderosa]

Originally Posted by las vegas drunk

Although Maryvale is run down, it really is not all that dangerous. My grandparents bought a brand new house right across the street from Maryvale Mall back in 1955. They lived there until 2005. They never had any crime problems whatsoever.

I agree. We've got family over there and go visit now and then usually staying till after dark. We've never been involved in or seen anything going on. In some ways, I think it has improved there over the past few years becoming a more stable Hispanic area instead of a transient renter dominated one. You see a lot of people fixing up their houses, adding rooms, garages etc.

[Lovegun]

Originally Posted by Ponderosa

I agree. We've got family over there and go visit now and then usually staying till after dark. We've never been involved in or seen anything going on. In some ways, I think it has improved there over the past few years becoming a more stable Hispanic area instead of a transient renter dominated one. You see a lot of people fixing up their houses, adding rooms, garages etc.

Yes a lot of people fixing their garages into 4th bedrooms.

[Lovegun]

Originally Posted by Discovery1

Is there anyone tell me what area is consider Maryvale ? A map would be helpful.
I heard its a really bad area quite often in this forum and no idea where it is. i want to know where about so i can avoid driving by if posible.
Thank you.

quick search of google:

Maryvale, Phoenix, Arizona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maryvale, Phoenix, Arizona Zip Code Boundary Map (AZ)
https://www.city-data.com/forum/phoen...ryville-3.html

[azdr0710]

from azpbs.org......



Birth of Suburbia
Searching for their own pieces of heaven, upstart builders John F. Long, John Hall and Del Webb transformed the Valley with their innovative ideas. Building an entire community, Maryvale, from the ground up, Long pioneered the idea of the master-planned community. Other innovations included the use of simple, mass production construction techniques, the widespread construction of the "ranch style" house and the beginning of the "patio lifestyle." By 1959, more houses were built in the Valley in that decade than in the previous four combined.

Read the complete transcript:

Narrator:
In 1947, a newly married vet named John F. Long returned to Phoenix to find his own piece of heaven. The future developer began with a single house. John F. Long: His first home was to be our own, and I really hadn't decided what I wanted to do. But anyway, we built the home, practically all the work ourselves. We sold the home and then built the next one. That was to be our home. I think we built 12, 13 homes individually like that until -- 1949 is when I started the first subdivision.

Narrator:
Now that the automobile allowed homeowners to live farther from downtown, Phoenix didn't just spread outward. It took a giant leap. John F. Long:
We started Maryvale in 1954, and the overall plan was to develop a community that would provide homes for young families and a place for their recreation and employment and so forth, and their shopping, all in one given area.
Narrator:
In building an entire community from the ground up, long pioneered the idea of a master-planned community.
Grady Gammage Jr.:
He hired one of the eminent planners in that era to lay out Maryvale with streets that would create neighborhoods where there would be parks that were planned in advance. In fact, he built many of those parks and then gave them to the city of Phoenix , with school sites designated in advance of where they would go in the subdivisions.
Narrator:
Building on a mass scale allowed long and other developers to experiment with ways to lower construction costs.
Marshall Trimble:
That resulted in the ranch house being sort of hit on as the prototype for how to do this. Simple construction, relatively plain house, typically one story, built on a slab, slab-on-grade construction. It could be delivered very quickly and very efficiently. 1950s radio announcer: Phoenix is world-renowned as a city of beautiful homes. This is where the home building industry was revolutionized, where new building techniques were developed, where methods were devised to give the homeowner a lot more home for a lot less cost.
Lloyd Clark:
We moved down to Maryvale, and it was a little $7,000 house out on 47th avenue and Indian School . And John F. Long had built these, God bless him, because it was the first time we could afford a house. It was the first home my father ever was able to buy. Payments were $55 a month. These were great little houses.

[froggin4colorado]

I know a family who lives across the street from the park and they said theft is pretty bad. When I have visited, they wouldn't let me walk to my car alone for safety reasons. Keep in mind this was 4 years ago though.