Home Depot opens Buckeye store, highlighting growth and internal mobility

Home Depot’s new Buckeye store is less a ribbon-cutting than a staffing blueprint for the West Valley. The 134,000-square-foot location at 20410 W. Roosevelt St. brings more than 140 jobs to Buckeye Commons near Interstate 10, and it gives the chain a fresh team to build from the ground up as it opens one of 12 new stores planned for 2026.

That expansion matters to workers because Home Depot said the new stores will add more than 1.6 million square feet across eight states and create thousands of career opportunities. The company is doing that while many retailers are shrinking their brick-and-mortar footprints, a contrast that puts more weight on the store floor, the Pro Desk, rentals, garden center and home services teams that will have to carry the Buckeye location’s daily workload.

The store’s leadership story is meant to reinforce that internal mobility still exists inside the company. Michael started 18 years ago as a cashier and moved through multiple store roles before becoming store manager. He most recently ran the Glendale and Peoria, Arizona stores, a path that gives newer associates a clear example of how Home Depot can turn entry-level work into a management track.

For associates and department leads, a new store usually means heavier early attention on merchandising, inventory accuracy, service standards and cross-training. It also gives leaders a chance to set expectations before habits harden. In a market built around growing neighborhoods and newer housing, that can translate into more pro-customer traffic, more demand for project-ready products and more pressure on teams to keep shelves full and answers fast.

Home Depot’s 2025 annual report says knowledgeable associates and on-shelf availability are critical to the store experience, and it says the company is focusing on training, product knowledge, process simplification and technology to improve that experience. In Buckeye, those priorities now land on a new crew in a store identified by the chain as #0427, with a job mix and customer base shaped by the rapid buildout around Buckeye Commons. As Orsborn put it, “We are no longer a community that has to leave town to meet its basic needs.”