The Landing in Buckeye: Development and Visitor Information

What is The Landing, and where is it going?

The Landing is Buckeye's 2,100-acre planned site just south of I-10 along Verrado Way, conceived as a destination for recreation, entertainment, work, shopping, and living, and in planning since 2019. Through late 2024 and early 2025, the city and its planning consultants finalized a Specific Area Plan and presented conceptual land-use scenarios, including the Grid and Greenbelt concepts, at community meetings and a city council workshop. The city's own 2026 messaging describes the concept as one that will continue to evolve.

What is proposed, and what is already real?

Keep three layers separate. Proposed: the future phases of The Landing itself, including a mixed-use core of apartments, dining, and nightlife, a campus and jobs district near a future Dean Road interchange, and other districts, all still in planning. Under construction: Verrado Marketplace, the roughly 500,000-square-foot retail center by Vestar that broke ground in November 2024 and began a phased opening in spring 2026. Open: Buckeye Commons, the retail hub already operating with anchors including Costco, Home Depot, and a long list of restaurants and shops.

Because of a 2023 state groundwater-assurance moratorium, only built-to-rent housing is currently planned within the Landing area, with city materials citing up to roughly 8,000 rental units and around 24,000 future residents spread across the planning districts. That number is a planning figure, not a guarantee, and it belongs to the specific regulatory constraint of the moment.

Which tenants and businesses are confirmed where?

Confirmed tenants sit at the component projects, not in future Landing phases. Buckeye Commons, already active, has announced Costco, Home Depot, Panera, Five Guys, Over Easy, In-N-Out, and Raising Cane's, among the roughly two dozen secured tenants it has named. Verrado Marketplace has announced anchors including Target, Harkins's Backlot theater concept, Safeway, Ross, Marshalls, and HomeGoods, plus ULTA Beauty, Famous Footwear, Buckle, Salt Tacos + Tequila, Bath & Body Works, and additional names added through late 2025, among more than 50 planned tenants.

Anything presented as a tenant of The Landing itself is speculation at this stage. Retail announcements come from the developers and the tenants, and the honest position is that future phases have no confirmed tenant list to report.

What is the announced timeline, and what is not?

The concrete near-term milestones are Verrado Marketplace's phased 2026 opening and the continuing growth of Buckeye Commons. No hard construction or completion date has been announced for the overall 2,100-acre Landing, and the city and its planning consultants describe a phased, likely incremental process. Treat an announced opening, a construction schedule, and a planning concept as three different facts, and check each against the developer's or the city's own announcements.

How should a Buckeye buyer or resident read this?

Planned retail and entertainment can improve everyday convenience, and the Verrado Way corridor already serves the communities around it, including the age-qualified Victory at Verrado. What a planning document does not do is tell you when stores will open, what the area will look like, or what any home will be worth, so keep development news in its lane: useful context, never a price prediction. For active adult residents and buyers, the practical question is what is open and drivable today, plus what the announced pipeline looks like on the developers' own calendars.

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