A plan to build a roughly 2,000-acre tech park in Buckeye, Arizona, has taken a significant step forward with the approval of the city’s planning and zoning board.
What is envisioned as a technology and data center campus would go up to the west of the Buckeye Municipal Airport and will be capable of attracting local and out-of-state tenants.
According to city documents, the project will “result in development that is compatible with the nearby Buckeye Municipal Airport,” while also contributing to “the city’s economic well-being.”
In addition, the campus will offer “a high-quality aesthetic from the perspective of adjacent streets,” one that “does not negatively impact surrounding properties, now or in the future.”
The site for the campus was originally zoned for a master planned community by Cipriani Land Holdings to be called Cipriani, which was originally proposed in 2008. After that project, for various reasons never became reality, the property was sold for $40 million to the Phoenix-based Arizona Land Consulting.
The proposal is now on its way to the Buckeye City Council for a final review and vote.
For the better part of a decade, Buckeye has consistently been listed as one of the fastest-growing cities in the country, with a population of more than 105,000, up from the 4,000 or so who called the city home in the 1980s.
By Garry Boulard
