Sunrise Market, Verrado Marketplace, or Buckeye Commons? What's Actually Opening Where in Verrado This Fall

Drive Verrado Way from McDowell Road down to the I-10 interchange right now and you will pass three separate construction zones, three different leasing signs, and at least four "coming soon" banners that all sound like they might be the same project. They are not. Ask around on the community boards and you will find longtime residents still mixing up The Mix on Roosevelt with Buckeye Commons, or assuming the new restaurants at Verrado Marketplace are the same ones that just opened at Sunrise Market. Even the folks running VerradoWay, the resident-owned news site that tracks this stuff daily, have started publishing separate explainers just to keep the corridors straight.

That confusion is worth untangling, because the three districts are not variations on a theme. They serve different purposes, they are owned and leased by different companies, and knowing which one you actually want changes where you point the car tonight.

Three corridors, three different jobs

Here is the short version before the detail:

• Main Street and Sunrise Market (Sunrise Lane and Village Street) is the walkable, resident-owned core. Most of the businesses here are owned by people who live in Verrado.
• Verrado Marketplace (I-10 and Verrado Way) is the large-format entertainment and national-chain hub anchored by Target, Harkins, and Safeway, with restaurant openings rolling out through 2026.
• Buckeye Commons and The Mix on Roosevelt (Verrado Way and Roosevelt Street, a few miles south) is the daily-errand corridor: Costco, Home Depot, a grocery-anchored strip, and a fitness anchor on the way.

If you want dinner within walking distance of your porch, you want the first one. If you want a night out with a movie and a sit-down chain restaurant, you want the second. If you need a garden hose, a rotisserie chicken, and a gym membership in the same afternoon, you want the third.

Main Street and Sunrise Market: the neighbor-owned side

Sunrise Market opened in late 2024 after construction delays pushed the launch from a planned Fall Festival soft opening to a full December debut, and nearly two years later it is still filling in. The character of the place was set early: property manager Ruth Rosenquist told a local reporter at the time that almost every business there is owned by a Verrado resident, calling the tenants "their friends, their neighbors, their family." That framing still holds. The current roster includes Nosh, Verrado's first dedicated breakfast spot with weekend brunch, and The Hemingway next door, a late-night restaurant built around a Mojito bar and an oyster house menu running from 5 p.m. to midnight. Around them sit Bobazona for bubble tea, DeGiNo Coffee, West Rose Tasting Room, Manna Movement Pilates, and Thrive Swim and Ride Shop.

The newest addition is a name longtime residents will recognize from the food truck circuit. WIFFY'S, previously a mobile favorite, has opened a permanent storefront at Sunrise Market this year, for now focused on customized sodas, energy drinks, teas, and coffee. It is a small opening compared to a chain restaurant landing, but it is the kind of detail that tells you the district is still growing organically rather than just filling preleased slots.

Main Street itself, the three-block strip that runs from the corner of Main Street and Verrado Way, remains anchored by longer-tenured names like Tempo Urban Bistro, whose founder Steven Maynard has been a Verrado resident since the restaurant opened in 2013.

Verrado Marketplace: the chain-driven side at I-10

A few miles north, at the interchange itself, Verrado Marketplace is a different animal entirely. This is Vestar's $275 million, 500,000-square-foot project anchored by Target, Harkins BackLot, Safeway, Ross, Marshalls, and HomeGoods, and it is not resident-owned in the way Sunrise Market is. It is a national retail and dining play, and the 2026 restaurant lineup reads like a checklist of familiar names: Salt Tacos + Tequila, Shake Shack, Sourdough & Co., Handel's Ice Cream, Einstein Bros. Bagels, Nekter Juice Bar, Thai Chili, and Tropical Smoothie Café were already committed, and this spring Vestar announced a second wave adding OHSO Brewery, Paris Baguette, BJ's Restaurant, and Chili's Grill & Bar.

OHSO's Derek Boettcher framed the expansion as a bet on West Valley growth, telling reporters the move made sense "as the West Valley continues to experience tremendous growth." Paris Baguette, which already operates in Scottsdale, Phoenix, Chandler, and Mesa, is opening its first West Valley location here. Tenant openings for the marketplace were scheduled to begin in May 2026, which means the district you are watching fill in right now, this fall, is mid-rollout rather than finished. Some storefronts that were announced months ago may not have their doors open yet, and that is normal for a project this size rather than a sign anything fell through.

The marketplace also includes a service layer that gets less attention than the restaurants: a new Chase Bank branch, CityVet, Great Clips, NextCare Urgent Care, Mountain America Credit Union, and Pacific Dental, among others. If you have been driving to Goodyear for a vet appointment or an urgent care visit, that is about to get shorter.

Buckeye Commons and The Mix on Roosevelt: the errand corridor

South of the marketplace, along Verrado Way and Roosevelt Street, a third and much less glamorous corridor has quietly become one of the most useful additions for anyone who actually lives here year-round. Buckeye Commons East, anchored by Costco, Home Depot, and DICK'S Sporting Goods, is the power-center side. Home Depot opened as store #0427 at 20410 W. Roosevelt St. with a garden center, rental counter, and pro desk, and DICK'S followed with a grand opening on July 1, 2026. Across Verrado Way, Buckeye Commons West is the drive-thru pad side where In-N-Out and Raising Cane's are already running, with Oregano's, Super Star Car Wash, and Valvoline tied to the next wave.

A short distance south of that, The Mix on Roosevelt is a separate 12.75-acre development that should not be confused with Buckeye Commons even though they sit close together. Sprouts Farmers Market became its first major tenant, opening July 24, 2026, with EōS Fitness slated to follow in 2027 as a planned 24-hour anchor. For residents who have been driving into Goodyear for a full-service gym, that is a real change once it lands. VerradoWay's own reporting has flagged this exact mix-up as common, noting that Roosevelt Commons, The Mix, and Buckeye Commons are separate projects that happen to be developing at the same time in the same stretch of road.

None of these three corridors is trying to be the others. Sunrise Market was never going to have a Costco. Buckeye Commons was never going to have a resident-owned oyster bar. Once you sort them by job rather than by geography, the fall calendar gets a lot easier to plan around.

What's actually on the fall calendar

With the retail picture sorted, the city's own event calendar fills in the rest of the season. Movies in the Park runs through the fall at parks across Buckeye, including a stop at Sundance Park on October 30, with food trucks and giveaways from the Community Services Department at each showing. Downtown Buckeye hosts its Halloween Carnival on October 24 from 5 to 9 p.m., an event the city notes dates back more than 80 years. Cotton Fest takes over downtown on November 28 from 3 to 8 p.m., and the same evening the city lights up downtown and Sundance Park for Glow on Monroe, its annual holiday light parade. If you are training for something bigger, registration is open for the Buckeye Marathon, Half, 10K, 5K, and 1 Mile Run, held at the Buckeye Municipal Airport on January 9, 2027.

None of these events require a membership or an HOA card. They are city-run, open to anyone in Buckeye, and worth putting on the calendar now before the good parking spots at Sundance Park fill up.

The takeaway for anyone planning a weekend

The next time someone asks what is new in Verrado, the honest answer is that three different things are new in three different places, and they are not competing with each other so much as covering three different reasons you leave the house. Sunrise Market is where you walk to dinner. Verrado Marketplace is where you go for the movie and the chain restaurant your kids have been asking about. Buckeye Commons and The Mix on Roosevelt are where you go to actually get things done. Knowing the difference saves a wasted drive, and it is the kind of detail that only becomes obvious once you have been paying attention to this corridor for a while.

If you are weighing a move within Verrado, sizing up a resale near one of these corridors, or just curious what a specific pocket of the community is worth now that the retail picture around it has changed, Elizabeth Chionchio tracks these developments as part of her daily work in the West Valley. Reach out for a Free Local Market Consultation and get a straight answer grounded in what is actually happening on the ground, not what a listing description says.