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By AZ Big Media
In the early 2000s, Buckeye was a quiet community on the outskirts of the bustling Phoenix metropolitan area with a population of 6,537. Fast forward to today, and Buckeye has transformed into the West Valley’s boom town with an impressive 114,000 residents. Recognized as America’s fastest-growing population over five years in 2022, Buckeye is projected to reach 300,000 by 2040. The city that many in Arizona once viewed as merely a drive-through on Interstate 10 from Phoenix to Los Angeles, Buckeye is now evolving into a lasting home for families, businesses and a hot spot for commercial real estate development.
Suzanne Boyles, the economic development director for the City for Buckeye, says there’s a couple factors that play into the city’s evolution.
“When you look at the metro Phoenix area, we have a tremendous number of businesses that want to serve California, but don’t want to actually operate in the state of California, and when you look at a map, the closest city that can do that is the City of Buckeye,” Boyles says. “We can actually meet the 11-hour turnaround time in the trucking industry to get to the ports of Long Beach and back, which not many other cities [can].”
