Buckeye Is Already Larger Than Tucson...

Buckeye's Boom, from the Arizona Republic, reports that the town of Buckeye in the West Valley plans to annex an additional 108 square miles of land, the largest municipal annexation in Arizona's history. At 230 square miles now, Buckeye is already larger than Tucson, Mesa and Seattle. Buckeye's "planning area" is 600 plus square miles. Buckeye, which had a population of 8,000 residents in 2000, has already grown to about 25,000 residents now. Town officials say that by 2025, Buckeye's population could be 1 million. Buckeye has more than 30 master-planned communities either under construction or in the works, including Verrado, Tartesso and Festival Ranch. At build-out, Buckeye could be home to 2 million people. Definitely one of the Valleys current and future hot spots for real estate.



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