One of Arizona's Fastest Growing Cities Eyes $2M Crime Center as Cost and Data Questions Persist

From water to crime control, lawmakers in the West Valley balance growing infrastructure needs weighing a multi-million dollar real-time crime center.

Tucked along the edge of the Sonoran Desert, Goodyear began as little more than farmland and open sky — a humble agricultural community built on cotton fields and railroad tracks. Once a quiet outpost west of Phoenix, it’s now transformed into one of the nation’s fastest-growing cities, home to more than 100,000 residents and counting. New neighborhoods…