Prescott Valley is located along I-69 about 10 miles East of Prescott and 25 miles West of I-17, the major North/South corridor in Arizona. Prescott Valley is centrally located in the state. A newly developed community, incorporated in 1978, it has an aggressive growth plan and active community planners. Prescott Valley is the fastest growing municipality in northern Arizona.
Prescott Valley is at the epicenter of a booming Quad-city economy. Every day new businesses open in the central Yavapai County region and as such all employment sectors are growing, including retail, manufacturing, health care, entertainment and others. Within the past 12 months, a full-service acute care hospital and a regional rehabilitation hospital opened, representing more than $75 million in private investment in the community and more than 450 employees.
The $30-million Prescott Valley Convention and Events Center opened in November 2006 and seats 6,300 for concerts and 5,100 for minor league hockey games. The facility is anchored by the Arizona Sundogs, a Central Hockey League team affiliated with the NHL Colorado Avalanche.
The population, which is growing rapidly, was about 35,000 in 2006. The town has two public high schools and 10 primary/middle schools. Median income is about $38,000 and about 13,000 households.
Thanks to Lockheed-Martin's state-of-the-art Automated Flight Services Station (AFSS), located in Prescott Valley, Arizona, job availability and income brackets will greatly increase due to AFSS positions which provide life-saving services, such as weather briefings, updates on closings or changes at airport facilities, and filing of flight plansto help keep non-FAA monitored skies safe for non-commercial aircraft pilots.
Headquartered in Prescott Valley, Arizona, Lockheed-Martins 50,000-square-foot AFSS station doubles as a national training center for the aerospace leader, utilizing many Emery-Riddle graduates. The 100-150 new jobs are a major achievement for the young town, adding to the nearly 200 existing jobs related to the aerospace industry, through employers like Night Vision Systems and Prescott Aerospace.
Location, location, location, is an old real estate saw that applies to this area most vividly. For manufacturing firms or for companies requiring regional warehousing and distribution facilities, Prescott Valley's proximity to major markets in California and the Southwest offers yet another competitive edge. Today, a number of regional, national and global manufacturing organizations can be found in Prescott Valley. This includes: M-I Home Products/BetterBilt, makers of aluminum extrusions for windows and patio doors; Avonti Manufacturing, a top producer of cultured marble and granutex items for bathrooms; Prescott Aerospace, Inc., a preferred military supplier of precision-machined parts such as those used in F16 and F18 fighter jets and Apache AH 64 helicopters; Printpack, Inc., providing specialty packaging material to the aerospace and fresh produce markets in California and Southwestern United States; and, Yampa Precision Manufacturing, Inc., a precision machine shop featuring CNC Swiss Screw machining and CNC milling used for commercial, military and medical manufacturing required to meet the highest international standards.
Prescott Valley is also home to Ace Hardware's 633,000 square foot Southwest Distribution Center. From its 45-acre site in the Big Sky Business Park, the helpful home center and building materials giant delivers product to more than 300 stores in Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and West Texas.
Prescott Valley, Arizona, a great place to live and work.
