Five retail projects totaling more than one million square feet are taking shape at the I-10 and Verrado Way interchange in Buckeye — not Broadway Road, as some outlets have reported. Costco is already open. Home Depot, Target, In-N-Out, Safeway, Harkins BackLot, and dozens more are arriving in 2026 and 2027. If you live in west Buckeye or Verrado, your nearest big-box options are no longer in Goodyear or Surprise.
Your drive, your wallet, and your commute are all in play
For years, Verrado and west Buckeye residents made long hauls to Surprise, Goodyear, or central Phoenix for everyday errands. That changes in this cycle. Target, Safeway, Costco, and Home Depot will all be within a few miles of each other along Verrado Way. A Harkins BackLot movie theater and In-N-Out are already drawing crowds.
But here is the tension: more than one million square feet of retail is arriving on a corridor served by a single freeway interchange. State Route 30, the planned relief route, will not reach the Verrado Way area for roughly two decades. That means I-10 handles every car trip to and from this corridor — for shoppers, workers, and future residents — for the foreseeable future.
If you are thinking about buying near this corridor, know that new residential at The Landing will be rental-only for now. Arizona’s 2023 groundwater moratorium blocks traditional for-sale subdivisions in Buckeye from getting new water certificates. That limits your ownership options in the immediate area and could push for-sale demand — and prices — in surrounding neighborhoods like Verrado.
The corridor at a glance: five projects, one million square feet
The five projects sit at or near the I-10 and Verrado Way interchange. Here is where each one stands.
Buckeye Commons anchors the southeast corner. It is a 440,000-square-foot power center developed by Sunbelt Investment Holdings (SIHI). The Costco warehouse — 160,938 square feet — opened in July 2023. It was the first major retail anchor in this corridor.
The 160,938-square-foot Costco at Buckeye Commons was the first major anchor to open at the I-10 and Verrado Way corridor. (InsideTheValley.com)
Home Depot is next at Buckeye Commons. SIHI closed the land sale — about 11.5 acres — on April 2, 2025. Home Depot filed an $11.6 million building permit for a roughly 137,347-square-foot store at 20410 W. Roosevelt St. It will be the chain’s first-ever Buckeye location. Dick’s Sporting Goods, Barnes & Noble, and Five Below also signed leases at Buckeye Commons, with openings originally planned for early 2026.
SIHI’s groundbreaking ceremony for Buckeye Commons, with the Costco warehouse visible in the background. SIHI developed the 440,000-square-foot center at the southeast corner of I-10 and Verrado Way. (InsideTheValley.com)
Buckeye Commons West sits at the northwest corner of W. Roosevelt St. and N. Verrado Way, also developed by SIHI. In-N-Out Burger opened there on April 3, 2026, at 1050 N. Verrado Way. The restaurant employs about 55 associates at a starting wage of $18.50 per hour.
Verrado Marketplace takes the northeast corner. Vestar and DMB Associates are developing this $275 million, 500,000-square-foot open-air center. It broke ground in November 2024. Anchors include Target (148,000 square feet, expected to hire more than 140 people), Safeway, Ross, Marshalls, HomeGoods, and Harkins BackLot. The first wave of tenants opened in 2026. Full opening is expected by January 2027, with more than 55 retailers in total. City projections show the center generating more than $50 million in tax revenue for Buckeye and an estimated $1.8 billion in economic output over ten years, with more than 1,500 permanent jobs created.
The City of Buckeye approved a deal to reimburse Vestar up to $3.7 million for a 2,000-square-foot police substation, a public event plaza, and other infrastructure. The reimbursement comes from construction sales tax and permit fees generated by the project itself — not from the general fund.
Roosevelt Commons and Mix on Roosevelt round out the corridor, pushing the combined committed retail and restaurant space past one million square feet.
The Landing: two thousand one hundred acres and why you can’t buy there
The Landing is the overarching planning framework for this corridor. It covers about 2,100 acres — roughly 3.4 square miles — just south of I-10 along Verrado Way. The City of Buckeye designated it as a special planning area. Work on the plan began in 2019. It envisions retail, entertainment, health care, research, education, and housing layered across the site.
The residential piece could add up to 8,000 new units housing an estimated 24,000 people. But there is a catch: Arizona’s 2023 moratorium halted new 100-year groundwater certificates for subdivisions in Buckeye that rely on Phoenix Active Management Area groundwater. Traditional for-sale homes require that certificate. Built-to-rent homes do not — because Arizona law does not classify short-lease rentals as “subdivisions.” That carve-out is why The Landing’s housing will be rental-only for now.
In October 2025, EPCOR became the first water provider in 25 years to receive a 100-year assured water supply designation in the Phoenix Active Management Area, through a new state program. EPCOR’s own announcement said this “ends a two-year development moratorium in places like Buckeye and Surprise.” Water policy experts cautioned, however, that the designation will not immediately restore all projects frozen under the moratorium — especially those far from existing EPCOR service areas in Buckeye. There are roughly 10,000 unbuilt homes in Buckeye that already hold pre-2023 certificates, so some for-sale building will continue, just not at The Landing.
The SR 30 reality check: two decades of I-10 only
State Route 30, also called the Tres Rios Freeway, is the planned parallel freeway to I-10. It has two segments, and they are not the same project.
The center segment — Loop 303 to Loop 202 — is funded partly through Proposition 479, a half-cent transportation sales tax Maricopa County voters approved in November 2024. Construction starts in 2027 on a 4.5-mile stretch from Loop 202 to 97th Avenue. The full center segment is expected to finish by 2035. It does not pass through Buckeye or touch the Verrado Way corridor.
The western segment is a different story. It runs from SR 85 northeast to Loop 303 — through Buckeye. That is the segment that would actually relieve pressure on I-10 at Verrado Way. Its estimated cost was reported at $878 million. Per ADOT’s own project page, preliminary design and environmental work on this segment is planned to begin in FY 2027. Construction of even interim improvements is not planned until FY 2046. That is roughly twenty years away.
In the meantime, every car heading to Costco, Target, Home Depot, or In-N-Out — and every worker commuting to the 1,500-plus permanent jobs being created — uses the same I-10 interchange at Verrado Way.
Buckeye’s growth context: why this corridor exists now
Buckeye’s population reached an estimated 125,445 people by 2025, a gain of nearly 34,000 residents since 2020. The city was the fastest-growing in the U.S. in 2017, 2018, and 2021. Projections put the population at roughly 295,400 to 300,000 by 2040. The Verrado master-planned community alone had more than 6,800 homes at the time Verrado Marketplace anchor tenants were announced.
That growth rate is exactly what drew retailers here. And it is exactly what makes the infrastructure gap consequential. A city adding tens of thousands of residents per decade cannot absorb a million square feet of retail traffic on one interchange without strain.
For prospective buyers, the retail surge is a real amenity gain — and likely a factor in home values as Verrado and west Buckeye become more self-sufficient. But the rental-only constraint at The Landing means the new residential density nearby will not add for-sale inventory to the market. If you are shopping for a home in this area, that is worth factoring in.
For more on West Valley retail development, see our coverage of Sprouts Farmers Market coming to Estrella in Goodyear and the Halo Vista retail and healthcare project in Peoria. Vestar is also developing Legacy Park in Mesa, a mixed-use project at Ellsworth and Williams Field.
First openings happened in 2026 — here is what is still coming
In-N-Out opened April 3, 2026. The first wave of Verrado Marketplace tenants began opening in 2026. Full build-out of Verrado Marketplace is expected by January 2027. Home Depot’s Buckeye store is under construction at 20410 W. Roosevelt St., with the $11.6 million building permit already filed. Dick’s Sporting Goods, Barnes & Noble, and Five Below are slated for Buckeye Commons.
The Landing’s residential component — up to 8,000 rental units — could take a decade or more to fully build out. SR 30’s western segment will not break ground until FY 2046 at the earliest. That is the timeline residents and buyers need to plan around: the stores arrive first, the infrastructure catches up last.