What New Retail Is Coming to Canyon Trails Towne Center?

Canyon Trails Towne Center at Cotton Lane and Yuma Road in Goodyear has filled in substantially, adding Burlington, Ulta, Rack Room Shoes, O'Reilly Auto Parts, Ono Hawaiian BBQ, America's Best, Einstein Bros. Bagels, Baskin-Robbins, and Hello Sugar in recent phases. The City of Goodyear has approved permits for another multi-tenant retail building, and the site's zoning allows for a hotel, with the ownership group in discussions on that piece.

If you have driven Cotton Lane in the last few years you have watched this center change more than almost anything else in south Goodyear. That is not an accident of retail cycles — it is a recovery story. Canyon Trails Towne Center was planned before the 2008 recession as a much larger all-retail project, stalled when the crash hit, and sat partially built for years. What has been happening since is a deliberate rebuild around a mixed-use model rather than a pure retail one, and understanding that shape tells you a lot about what is likely to come next.

What Is Open at Canyon Trails Towne Center Right Now?

Canyon Trails Towne Center in Goodyear is a 90-acre mixed-use center anchored by Super Target, Ross, PetSmart, Pottery Barn Outlet, and Planet Fitness, with a large recent wave of additions layered on top. The center now totals roughly 492,000 square feet across about 55 retailers, and has been fully leased for a sustained stretch — a genuine reversal from where it sat a decade ago.

Tenant roster reflects publicly reported leasing activity as of late 2025. Retail rosters change; confirm current tenants with the center before relying on this list.

Anyone shopping the Canyon Trails area should treat that list as a snapshot rather than a permanent state. Retail centers this active turn over.

Where Is Canyon Trails Towne Center and What Serves It?

Canyon Trails Towne Center sits at the northeast corner of Cotton Lane and Yuma Road in Goodyear, south of Interstate 10, along the corridor that carries the southbound extension of the Loop 303 freeway. That position is the whole reason the center works — it captures traffic from the residential growth spreading south and west across Goodyear and Buckeye, and its retailers have reportedly performed strongly relative to their Phoenix-market peers.

The corridor is also actively changing around it. The City of Goodyear has a roadway improvement project on Cotton Lane, and ADOT has a separate multi-year Loop 303 extension underway south of Van Buren Street. Both are worth knowing about if you are shopping homes nearby, because construction affects the drive before it improves it.

For anyone evaluating homes in the Canyon Trails area of Goodyear, the practical read is that everyday retail is genuinely solved here in a way it is not in newer, farther-out communities. That is a real quality-of-life factor and a real resale factor.

Why Canyon Trails Towne Center Went Mixed-Use Instead of All Retail

The most informative thing about Canyon Trails Towne Center is what its developers decided not to build. The original pre-recession plan called for roughly 100 acres of retail. When the project restarted, the team reworked it around a mixed-use model instead — the developer's own explanation being that a center that size no longer needs to be all retail, and that mixed use is what has reliably fixed stalled centers in other markets.

You can see that logic on the ground. Embrey Partners completed a 13-acre, 284-unit multifamily community at the northwest corner of the center, on a parcel that had originally been planned for a big-box home improvement store. The site's zoning also allows a limited-service or extended-stay hotel, and ownership has been in discussions with potential hotel partners.

That matters for a homebuyer looking nearby, because it tells you the trajectory. This is not a center that will be finished and static. It is a center still adding uses, and the next additions are more likely to be residential, hospitality, and smaller-format retail than another anchor box.

What Canyon Trails Retail Means for Nearby Goodyear Buyers

For a buyer shopping homes near Canyon Trails in Goodyear, an established, fully leased retail center nearby affects the decision in four concrete ways.

• Everyday errands are settled: Groceries, pharmacy, pet supplies, and general merchandise are all within the center, which removes the "where do we actually shop" question that newer, farther-west communities cannot yet answer.
• Resale narrative is durable: Retail that has been fully leased for a sustained period and is still adding tenants is a stronger long-term story for a future listing than a center with visible vacancies.
• Traffic patterns are real: A center this active generates weekend and evening traffic on Cotton Lane and Yuma Road, which is worth experiencing at peak hours before you commit to a home immediately adjacent.
• Construction is ongoing nearby: With a city roadway project on Cotton Lane and ADOT's separate Loop 303 extension underway, the drive around this corridor will be disrupted before it improves.

At this stage, I help buyers weigh convenience against noise, because the same proximity that makes errands easy makes some streets busier than a buyer expects. Homes a few streets back from the corridor often capture most of the convenience with far less of the traffic. If you are also comparing Goodyear against neighboring cities on carrying costs, our post on Avondale versus Goodyear property taxes for new builds covers that, and our look at whether the Buc-ee's opening actually increases nearby Goodyear home values applies the same retail-impact question to a different Goodyear project. The City of Goodyear's economic development site is the best public source for what is coming next.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Canyon Trails Towne Center?
It sits at the northeast corner of Cotton Lane and Yuma Road in Goodyear, south of Interstate 10, along the corridor carrying the southbound Loop 303 extension.

How big is Canyon Trails Towne Center?
The center covers about 90 acres and totals roughly 492,000 square feet with approximately 55 retailers, and it has been fully leased for a sustained period.

Is a hotel coming to Canyon Trails Towne Center?
The site's zoning allows a limited-service or extended-stay hotel and ownership has been in discussions with potential partners, but no opening has been announced. Treat it as planned, not confirmed.

Are there apartments at Canyon Trails Towne Center?
Yes. Embrey Partners completed a 13-acre, 284-unit multifamily community at the northwest corner of the center on a parcel originally planned for retail.

Is more retail being built at Canyon Trails?
The City of Goodyear approved permits for an additional multi-tenant retail building. Retail construction timelines move, so confirm current status before planning around it.

What Actually Matters Here

Canyon Trails Towne Center went from a recession casualty to a fully leased 90-acre mixed-use center with roughly 55 retailers, and it is still adding. For a buyer shopping the Canyon Trails area of Goodyear, that is about as settled as everyday retail gets in the West Valley.

The tradeoff is the corridor itself. Cotton Lane and Yuma Road carry real traffic, and with a city roadway project and a separate freeway extension both underway, the next stretch will be disrupted before it gets better. Drive the area on a Saturday afternoon and again on a weekday evening before you decide how close to the center you actually want to be. Convenience is worth a lot — but so is the street you sleep on.

I'm Kasandra Chavez, REALTOR® and Team Lead of the Chavez Dream Home Team with Real Broker, serving the West and Northwest Valley of Greater Phoenix, Arizona, and recognized among the top 5% of real estate professionals in the Greater Phoenix area. If you're looking at homes near Canyon Trails, I'm happy to drive the area with you at the hours that actually tell you something.