You are in Tucson and you want Phoenix work too. Reasonable. It is two hours and it is four times the market.
The problem is that local search is built on proximity and Google knows exactly where you are. At all times. Like the NSA.
Why one address does not cover both
When somebody in Tempe searches for what you do, Google is sorting by relevance, prominence, and distance. Distance is doing a lot of work in that calculation. The most work actually.
You are a hundred and ten miles away. There are two hundred businesses closer. You are not appearing in that map pack and no amount of on page work changes it. Not even sketchy generic templates that say the same thing for Colorado and Georgia.
Service area settings on your profile help with Marana, Oro Valley, Vail, Green Valley. Places genuinely near you. They are not a teleporter. Those are the keywords and locations you want.
What actually works
A real page about the Phoenix work. Not a template like I said with some city name swapped in. An actual page that says you serve Phoenix, how you handle a project two hours away, which projects you have done up there, who you worked with. How successful you have been working remote.
A generic template page will not win the map pack. however, you can absolutely rank in the regular organic results, which is where a lot of considered purchases start anyway. Somebody comparing three shops for a real project reads pages. They do not just tap the first pin.
The part people get wrong
Do not create a fake Phoenix address. Not a virtual office, not a mail drop, not a friend garage.
Google has been aggressively cleaning this up for years and they are good at it. When they catch it the consequence lands on your whole profile, including the Tucson listing that was actually working. You trade a real asset for a fake one.
And do not build eleven near identical city pages for Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, Glendale. That pattern is well understood and it is a thin content problem, not a strategy.
The honest positioning
Lean into being from Tucson. There is a real market of people who would rather not pay Scottsdale agency rates and who like that you answer your own phone. You treat them with respect and actual transparency.
Say it plainly. Based in Tucson, working across Arizona, and here is what that actually looks like for a Phoenix client. Who comes up, how often, how we handle the parts that need a person in the room.
Pretending to be local in a city you are not is a liability with a countdown on it.