Buckeye Mayor Eric Orsborn recounts a 2015 story that perfectly illustrates how the perception of the West Valley has dramatically evolved in less than a decade.
“Then-Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton was celebrating an investment the City of Phoenix was making in Buckeye,” Orsborn recalls. “Mayor Stanton said, ‘One day, we’re all going to be suburbs of Buckeye.’ And everyone laughed because — at that time — it was funny to hear the mayor of Phoenix say something like that.”
But Buckeye might get the last laugh.