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y Catherine Reagor | The Arizona Republic
More than 250 people lined up in Buckeye early Tuesday morning to buy a house in Victory at Verrado, metro Phoenix’s newest community for buyers 55 and older.
Buyers also lined up when Del E. Webb opened the first Sun City, also in the West Valley, on Jan. 1, 1960.
Arizona developments continue to draw home buyers at or nearing the age when they can start collecting Social Security and stop working full time.
Del Webb’s Sun Cities defined retirement living for America’s first generation of post-war retirees. Now builders are trying to create communities for the 76 million Baby Boomers, many of whom don’t plan on retiring, and want something different than their parents did at 60.
