What we find across Buckeye
Buckeye is the newest place on our list. 90.3% of the housing has gone up since 2000 and the median home dates to 2011. It was the fastest-growing city in the United States in 2017, again in 2018 and again in 2021, and around thirty master-planned communities carry most of that growth.
What that means for glass is simple: nothing here has worn out yet. Sealed units last twenty to thirty years in this heat and most of Buckeye is nowhere near that. Almost everything we do here is impact damage and screens.
Verrado is the largest and one of the older communities, so the earliest of its glass is starting to reach the age where seals matter. Sundance and Festival Ranch sit in the same band.
Tartesso, Sienna Hills, Westpark and Rainbow Valley are newer again and behave accordingly. A stone off a mower, a ball through a pane, a door panel that met something solid.
Screens are the exception to all of it, because screen fabric does not care how new the house is. Ten years of west-facing sun and dust will take one out, and in communities built this uniformly the whole street needs them at the same time.
Commercially, retail leads at 5,482 people and the glass is Verrado Marketplace at around 500,000 square feet, Main Street at Verrado and Sundance Towne Center. Storefront and entry door work rather than anything on a tower.