Sun City turns 50

Fifty years ago, developer Del E. Webb opened his first Sun City retirement community, where what was then the northwestern fringes of Phoenix.
 Retirees were just beginning to flock to Arizona for its warm weather. The developer plan to sell 1,700 homes in Sun City in three years. Instead, Webb sold 2,000 homes the first year.
 The original Sun City continues to draw residents as do the three newer Sun Cities west of it in the Valley. 
Del Webb’s company, which was bought by Pulte Homes in late 1990s, changed the way American’s retire and helped make Arizona a destination for those retirees.
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