 Phoenix...the center of the Valley of the Sun, surrounded by the cities you have now come to learn more about. Look carefully and quickly around the city of Phoenix. It has not looked like this for very long and the future promises progress and more change.
Phoenix has exploded to become the nation's sixth most populous city with about 1.5 million residents. Unlike other cities that have grown slowly over time, Phoenix catapulted to this position in relatively short order.
From a modest 17 square miles in 1950, Phoenix has grown to encompass more than 430 Square miles and the cities population has grown fifteen-fold from 100,000 people in 1950. Before World War II, Phoenix was a sleepy little southwestern town best known for having a climate that offered relief to asthmatics. Cotton, Cattle, Citrus and Copper known locally as the "Four C's," were the cornerstones of its early twentieth-century economy. In 1940, the cities population was a mere 65,000 and the largest of the surrounding towns was Mesa with 7,000 people.
Phoenix is a tapestry of neighborhoods that are as diverse as the colors in a Navajo Rug. The historic homes of the Encanto District are favored by successful professionals; the cozier, antique houses in the Willo District are fixer uppers with flair.
A country club lifestyle encircles the famed Arizona Biltmore Hotel, while some of the city's most expansive estates line the lightly wooded, curbless streets of north Central Avenue.
Phoenix is an easy city to get around. We are a car dependent city and the streets are designed in a grid like pattern to make navigation as simplistic as possible. You should think of Central Avenue, which runs north and south, as the dividing line of the city. Parallel streets to the west are the Avenues and parallel streets to the east are numbered as the Streets.
Home to the 2001 World Champion Diamondbacks, the Cardinals, the Suns, and the Coyotes, Phoenix boasts all FOUR major Sports teams.
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