- Priorities
- Fiscal Responsibility: AAA rating. lowest cost per service.
- Water preservation & conservation: 100 years of water, they have made lots of arrangements. they do this for each project they do. They get it from the ground water from Gila reservation
- Transportation
- Infrastructure
- Safe neighborhoods
- Responsible development
- Chandler Police Chief just won Police Chief of the year for entire USA
- 2018 lowest crime rate since 1986
- National awards
- AAA bond ratings which helps get loans without having to raise taxes.
- Huge population growth
- Fewer multifamily projects in 2019 than 2018 Increased single family projects in 2019 Majority of growth is in southeast Chandler
- Housing
- 106,688 total housing units
- 73.5% single family homes
- 26.5% multi-family homes
- 141 new houses added a month, on average
- K-12 Education
- Chandler Unified School District (CUSD) just won #1 school district in AZ (niche.com) vision 2030 is to be the #1 school district in USA voters approve school spending nearly 100% of the time
- Currently modernizing Chandler Municipal airport, moving towards jets to accommodate business travelers and making it quieter. The hobby prop planes are louder.
- Employment
- economic development is all about bringing in more bodies
- Existing employers
- New businesses
- New Banner hospital coming soon to 202 and Alma School
- working to build a bigger variety of employment, not just semiconductors
- Recently won best economic development department in AZ
- Mica Miranda, head of the department, travels to businesses across the country to recruit to Chandler
- Chandler is competing with Dallas, Tampa, Austin for businesses
- By bringing in more businesses and jobs, taxes are subsidized so increases are not needed to support growing population
- Price Corridor job creation zone Airport job creation zone
- Commercial building fill rate/vacancy rate (page 17)
- office 14% flex 7% industrial 5% retail all time low
- Downtown Updates
- Tons of building, different feel from downtown Gilbert
- Higher end for older community (average age in Chandler is 35 vs Gilbert’s 30)
- Investment for both day and night activity, businesses and entertainment”
- it will be a little less Gilbert and a little more Kierlandy”8 story height restriction
- Check out the live building progress here: https://public.earthcam.net/Newsquarechandler/Spike%20Lawrence%20Ventures%20Project/New%20Square%20Chandler/New%20Square%20Latest
- downtown Jack in the Box is the #1 Jack in the Box in the state
- Park Updates
- 67 completed parks
- 3 planned parks
- 1200 acres of park space
- talking about youth sports tourism (not a money maker but people want them)
- adding to tumbleweed, move that towards a more competitive sports complex
- also working with the schools to use their fields. adding more lights to tumbleweed
- Lots of events to unify all of the different aspects of Chandler
- Festivals to connect the old and the new
- Follow City of Chandler on LinkedIn and Facebook to see updates
- Sign Up for Chandler’s newsletter at https://www.visitchandler.com/about-chandler/enwsletter/
Sarah Perkins is an award winning account executive and has been in title sales since 2004. As the Director of Industry Research & Senior Account Executive, Sarah’s role is to bring real estate transactions to Navi Title. Sarah supports her clients by helping them navigate the ever-changing real estate space through thorough research and understanding of current trends impacting today’s home buyers and sellers.