Whenever we cover upcoming businesses, Maricopans are quick to mention what they wish would open locally: In-N-Out Burger, Chick-fil-A, Target or another grocery store.
But there’s one industry that hasn’t made a permanent mark on the city: funeral homes. And while one operates a small administrative office on Honeycutt Road, Maricopa residents haven’t had a standalone place to host funerals and wakes.
East Valley-based Bunker Family Funerals and Cremation hopes to change that.
The funeral home is looking to construct a 7,000-square-foot funeral home near the southeast corner of Honeycutt and Porter Roads, according to public records obtained by InMaricopa today. The building will host funerals, receptions and administrative operations.
The project narrative did not state if the funeral home will perform on-site cremation.
Other features in the building include a chapel, reception hall, arrangement rooms, prep room, offices and a garage. The site will also have a garden area with a gazebo and a parking lot for 61 vehicles.
Bunker Family Funerals and Cremation, which first opened in 1913, operates two funeral homes in Mesa and a cemetery in Gilbert.
This isn’t the first proposal tied to funerals or cemetery services in Maricopa.
In 2021, then City Manager Rick Horst discussed the possibility of constructing a cemetery on city-owned land along State Route 238, immediately south of Ak-Chin Southern Dunes Golf Club. However, the proposal never advanced.
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Maricopa needs a cemetary. Even the indian reservations have cemeteries, but a city the size of Maricopa doesn’t?
Chandler’s senior population is around 275k, with 13% being seniors. Maricopa’s population is around 82k with 14% being seniors.
We have no senior care facility, no funeral home, no cemetery, and a tiny hospital with nowhere near enough beds/staff who will just give you a referral to a senior health specialist in Phoenix or Chandler.
City government will claim they don’t have the funds or claim we don’t have enough of a population to warrant these things while in the same breath announce the construction of yet another burger joint, big box store, apartment complex, or recreational sport facility costing millions, while the senior population can just…kick rocks, I guess.
As much as they want to advertise it on billboards heading into town, Maricopa is not necessarily a “great place to retire”.
Maricopa needs a funeral home and a cemetery. We shouldn’t have to go to Casa Grande or Chandler. Stop with the apartments and fast food restaurants!
I don’t think we even have an assisted care facility here. We have plenty of seniors here but apparently pickleball is more important.
We do.
It’s called Province.