By Evan Bell | Cronkite News Service
Buckeye officials said they were not particularly surprised when recent Census estimates showed their town was the ninth-fastest-growing city in the country in 2012.
As the town rebounds from the housing collapse of 2007, city officials believe they are attracting younger families from Phoenix moving out to Buckeye. They are drawn in by the West Valley town’s businesses – including two new hospitals – restaurants, good schools and new roads.
There are “tremendous expansion opportunities in the West Valley,” said Tracy Simmons, the marketing director for Verrado, a planned community in the town. “There are new transportation opportunities off of the I-10, 101, and 303,” she said of highways near Buckeye.
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