Canyon Trails in Goodyear, AZ

We’ve been doing junk removal in Goodyear since 2001, which means we’ve watched this city grow up in real time. And few things in the West Valley have had a more interesting glow-up than Canyon Trails Towne Center — the shopping center at Cotton Lane and Yuma Road that opened during the Great Recession, spent years looking like a ghost town, and has somehow turned itself into one of the most active retail destinations in the entire area.

If you live in the Canyon Trails neighborhood or anywhere nearby, you already know what we’re talking about. This place is humming right now. New restaurants, new retailers, new apartments, and a next phase already in the works. It’s the kind of turnaround story that makes you appreciate what Goodyear has become.

A Little History

Canyon Trails Towne Center opened in 2008. If you know anything about 2008, you already see where this is going. The timing couldn’t have been worse — the housing market collapsed, the economy tanked, and a brand-new 90-acre shopping center in a then-developing part of Goodyear found itself with a lot of empty storefronts and not a lot of foot traffic.

For years, the center limped along. A Dallas investment firm called TriGate Capital picked it up in 2013 for around $23 million — a significant discount from what it cost to build. Things slowly improved as Goodyear started growing, but the center never quite found its footing. Then the city really started to take off.

In 2022, a California-based company called Santa Cruz Seaside Company bought the whole property for $41 million — cold hard cash. No financing, no contingencies. Just a check. That kind of confidence in a shopping center that had been struggling for over a decade tells you something about where Goodyear was headed. Scottsdale Development Partners took over management and started getting to work.

100% Leased — First Time in 15 Years

In July 2023, Canyon Trails Towne Center announced something that would have seemed almost impossible a decade earlier: the center was 100% leased. Every storefront, every pad site, every square foot — occupied. For a property that had spent the better part of its existence with empty anchor spaces and tumbleweeds, that’s a pretty remarkable milestone.

“It has been a long-time coming to see this center finally evolve into a major destination for everyone in Goodyear to enjoy. The shopping center was struggling mightily until 2019, and since then it has exploded.”
— David Malin, Scottsdale Development Partners

Who’s There Now

The anchor lineup is solid — the kind of mix that actually gets people in the car and over to the shopping center on a regular basis. Super Target anchors the whole thing, which means your grocery run, your home goods run, and your “I’ll just grab one thing” run that somehow turns into $200 are all covered in one stop.

The Anchors

Dining & Everything Else

The restaurant and services side of the center has filled in nicely too. Chipotle, Starbucks, Freddy’s Steakburgers, Denny’s, Wingstop, Tropical Smoothie Café — the usual suspects are all here. Orange Theory Fitness is in there for the people who want to undo the Freddy’s. Pacific Dental, Cobblestone Carwash, Christian Brothers Auto Service — the everyday stuff that makes a shopping center actually useful rather than just a place to browse.

What’s Coming Next

Here’s where it gets interesting. The development team isn’t done. Permits have been secured for the next phase, which includes roughly 15,000 square feet of additional retail space, more standalone pad sites, and — the big one — a proposed 120-room hotel.

A hotel at Canyon Trails would be a genuine game-changer. Right now, if you’re visiting someone in this part of Goodyear, or coming to town for spring training at Goodyear Ballpark, or doing business in the area, your hotel options nearby are limited. A 120-room property at Canyon Trails would fill that gap and give the center a whole new category of foot traffic — guests who need somewhere to eat, shop, and kill time between meetings or games.

The City of Goodyear confirmed in mid-2025 that new businesses are continuing to arrive at the center, and the development team has been consistent about their long-term vision for the property. David Malin described it as being in “the seventh inning of a very long nine-inning game.” If that’s true, there’s still a lot of baseball left to play.

Terra Lane: Living Right at the Center

One of the more interesting wrinkles in the Canyon Trails story is that you can actually live there now. The 13-acre parcel that was originally planned for a Home Depot — which never materialized — was eventually developed into Terra Lane, a 284-unit apartment community built by Embrey Partners. It completed construction around 2024 and brought a significant residential population directly onto the property.

Think about that for a second. You can wake up in your apartment, walk to Starbucks, grab groceries at Target, hit Orange Theory, and never get in your car. For the right person, that’s a genuinely appealing way to live. The apartments are luxury-grade with smart-home features, and their location within the center means they’ve got a built-in walkability score that most Goodyear addresses can’t match.

There’s also a separate Terra Lane community at 195 N. 173rd Avenue in the Canyon Trails neighborhood — about 260 luxury smart-home single-family units that completed back in 2021. Between the two, there are now several hundred households living within or immediately adjacent to the Towne Center. That’s a lot of people who need somewhere to shop and eat. And it’s a big part of why the center finally reached 100% occupancy.

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Why Canyon Trails Matters for Goodyear

We’ve watched a lot of shopping centers come and go in the Valley over the years. Some open with a bang and fade quietly. Some never quite find their footing. Canyon Trails is something different — a property that had every reason to fail and found a way to turn it around. The combination of Goodyear’s population boom, smart ownership, and the right tenant mix at the right time made it work.

For the people who live in the Canyon Trails neighborhood and the surrounding communities, the Towne Center is more than just a place to run errands. It’s where the neighborhood comes together — for a quick lunch, a workout, a Target run that turns into an hour of wandering the aisles. That kind of community anchor matters, and Canyon Trails has earned it.

We’ll keep an eye on the next phase as it develops. In the meantime, if you want to stay current on what’s opening and what’s coming, the City of Goodyear’s development tracker is updated regularly and worth bookmarking.

Also worth checking out: our posts on Citrus Park and Palm Valley for more on what’s happening across Goodyear’s neighborhoods.