Subject: Re: Results from the CHIPS act
The 52nd street location was on the outskirts circa 1950. The city grew around it. My company was on a dirt road for a while (before I got there...a few old-timers were telling me about it). Intel's Fab 24 and 32 were both towards the southern outskirts of Chandler. Again, the businesses and homes grew around them.

Heck, in the 1930s when Sky Harbor was new, it was in the "boonies". Now it's completely landlocked by cities (Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe). Sun City was waaaaay out in the middle of nowhere when it was built. The city has engulfed that, too. We had two air force bases (Luke and Williams). Built out in the boonies. Both are inside the city now (Williams was later converted into a civilian airport). The people that moved close to Luke now like complaining about all the aircraft...what did they expect building at the end of a military runway??

TSMC is building in the open desert. The few homes don't even have paved roads. Yet. Development of the sites, and the building of strip-centers and houses/apartments will take care of that pretty quickly.

The Phoenix metro area spreads out instead of up. A lot of big cities (like NYC) build up. Not here. It's cheaper to build outwards (at least until you run-up against Indian reservation...Scottsdale is hemmed-in by one on their east side). From my house in Gilbert to downtown Phoenix is about 30 miles. And I'm not at the extreme east side. The far west side is at least 30 miles past that.