Gilbert AZ Real Estate

Welcome to the town of Gilbert! Gilbert is one of the fastest growing communities in the nation with a thousand new residents moving here a month. Gilbert has an ample supply of upscale, family centered neighborhoods. Gilbert is also experiencing an unprecedented economic growth. Gilbert is the place of choice among the residents, because of the small town friendliness, great school system, and the pristine neighborhoods with a thriving business community, the town just gets the job done right.
With fast-paced growth and ideal quality of life, Gilbert represents prime real estate where opportunity for development within the greater Phoenix metropolitan area has been repeatedly identified and realized.  While prime sites are still available for all product types and in all of Gilbert's growth areas, the city remains careful, strategic and thoughtful in the growth strategy.  Through the Gilbert General Plan, this growth is proactively directed and regularly reviewed to ensure that the actions of the city today provide future generations with a community that is beyond extraordinary. 

As one of the nation's top five growth markets, Gilbert, Arizona has long been a community of opportunity.  Today, however, its new freeways, large-scale commercial projects and successful business collaborations have shaped a market where opportunity is not just being touted, it's being realized.  The Loop 202 Freeway, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Rome Towers.  San Tan Village Regional Shopping Center.  Mercy Gilbert and Banner Gateway medical centers.  Big League Dreams.  For Gilbert businesses, residents and the thousands of area workers and shoppers that Gilbert now attracts each day, these projects reflect decades of innovation, research, partnership and planning that have increased the productivity and competitiveness of GIlbert's economy and positioned it for the long term.  The projects will not stop and the planning and the vision keep Gilbert at the Top in the Valley of the Sun.

Gilbert residents hold one of the highest concentrations of graduate and professional degrees among competing Western cities.  Our labor pool consists of a young, talented population with one of the highest median incomes within the Phoenix metropolitan area.  A destination of lifestyles, family economic growth and endless possibilities.

It's the town of Gilbert, and it offers so much more, from a family-friendly culture to the best waterfowl sanctuary in the Valley.

And unless you visit the Gilbert Historical Society Museum you're likely to miss a point often recounted boastfully by its old timers - that Gilbert was once hailed as the hay capital of the world.

High-speed growth is Gilbert's most publicized dynamic, yet its country charm and small-town character are more reminiscent of a static, Midwest community.

There's little left to identify it with its agricultural beginnings in 1891.  And those pastoral remnants are quickly disappearing under tile-roof subdivisions, retail centers, new schools and fire stations. 

But if rapidly developed fields could talk, they would tell of such Gilbert pioneers as William E. Rood Jr., who invented and mass-produced the world's first cotton harvester to help farmers salvage much of the $300 million worth of cotton balls knocked the ground each year by weather and farm machinery.  Rood's first machine, Old Betsy, is now in the historical museum. 

They would speak of William "Bobby" Gilbert, the town's namesake, who watched the town pop up around a rail line built on his property by the Arizona Eastern Railway.

Although the fields are proud of their roots, they would speak ecstatically about many of their latest inhabitants who represent an enviable quality of life.

At the top of their list would be some of the valley's best schools, most attractive neighborhoods and such family amenities as fishing holes and 19 parks and recreation areas to one of the state's top skateboard complexes and a Riparian Institute that oversees wildlife preserves.

But such rapid growth, the fields would tell us, has also bypassed opportunities.  Despite its family atmosphere, Gilbert is struggling to expand its tax base to keep life less expensive for family breadwinners.  It has precious little industry and competes with neighboring communities to land retail centers capable of producing lucrative revenue streams.

But Gilbert's charm is disarming if not compelling.

For my money, its downtown, though small, relatively quaint and still being re-developed, has a barbeque restaurant and furniture store that are destination spts.  Joe's Real Barbeque, a cafeteria-style rib restaurant with outside picnic tables, is a trip to the past with an award-winning menu, an agricultural mural across the south wall and a John Deere tractor parked conspicuously in the middle of the dining room in a historic brick building.

If you walk downtown you're likely to see Gilbert's water tower, a historic landmark.  Plans to redevelop it as part of the town's centerpiece are moving closer to reality. 

You might say the old tower is another indication that things are looking up in America's fastest growing municipality. 

For more information about the Town of Gilbert, please visit the city's web site for a list of events that are currently going on in the Town of Gilbert.