Peoria
Peoria
Peoria is a city in Maricopa and Yavapai counties in the U.S. state of Arizona. Located primarily in Maricopa County, it is a major suburb of Phoenix. Peoria is currently the sixth largest city in Arizona for land area, and the ninth largest for population. In July 2008, Money magazine listed Peoria in its “Top 100 Places to Live”.
Peoria continues to grow successfully. In 1999 most of the land around Lake Pleasant Regional Park was annexed into the city. Peoria has gained a world-class educational and cultural destination, the Challenger Space Center of Arizona. Also in 2007 the city completed the Peoria Center for the Performing Arts. Today most of the city’s growth is taking place in northern and northwestern Peoria with many infill projects occurring in Old Town and southern Peoria.
Peoria’s identity is more related to resort and leisure living than the past, as that type of lifestyle migrates from the northeast Valley to Peoria. Peoria’s economic plan focuses on establishing the new Loop 303 freeway corridor as an industrial, commercial, mixed development use and less on traditional residential development.
Peoria city limits lie mainly in the Peoria Unified School District. Additionally the city is well served by numerous publicly funded charter high schools and elementary schools.
source: wikipedia.org
