Axon Seeks $9.4M Deal from Scottsdale
By Wayne Schutsky for Scottsdale Progress Scottsdale has reached a preliminary agreement with Axon to reimburse the body camera manufacturer over $9M in infrastructure costs and other expenses connected to the planned expansion of its headquarters in Scottsdale. The deal will go before City Council and is likely to face the same pushback from critics who opposed a similar […]
Uncertainty Forces Economic Developers to Pivot
By Rebekah Morris for AZBEX The diversity of East Valley cities was on full display at the August 12th, 2020 Leading Market Series discussion hosted by BEX. Economic development directors from the cities of Mesa and Scottsdale, along with the Town of Queen Creek, identified their unique challenges and goals in bringing in new employers to their municipality, especially during a time when […]
Avondale Seeking Mixed-Use Ideas
By Corina Vanek for Phoenix Business Journal The City of Avondale is seeking ideas from private developers about how to best develop 34 acres of city-owned land into a mixed-use development with office, hospitality, retail, residential and community amenities. The area, which the city has named “The BLVD,” is at Avondale Boulevard south of Interstate […]
Putting the West Valley into Major Growth Mode
By Erin Thornburn for AZ Big Media Remember the lyrics from Janet Jackson’s “Love Would Never Do (Without You)?” “They said it wouldn’t last. We had to prove them wrong … There’s no easy explanation for it. But whenever there’s a problem, we always work it out somehow.” If the West Valley could sing, she would likely […]
Electric Car Company Looking at Arizona
By Suzanne Adams-Ockrassa for Pinal Central Another electric vehicle company was scouting for locations for a factory and technical center in Arizona last week and Casa Grande was on its list of spots to check out. Electra Meccanica, a Vancouver, Canada-based electric vehicle company, is checking out possible factory locations in seven states: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, South […]
Where to Put 1 Million New Residents?
By Catherine Reagor for The Arizona Republic Metro Phoenix is expected to grow by 1 million people during the next decade. That will be like adding a city the size of San Jose, CA or Austin, TX, to the Valley. The billion-dollar question is where all those new residents will live. Most of the available […]
Light Rail Anniversary Casts Light on Area Growth
By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Despite ongoing challenges and concerns in various parts of the Valley, the economic growth generated as a byproduct of the Light Rail’s introductions and various expansions have proven impossible to deny. Valley Metro last week released, “Building Communities and Enhancing Lives: A Quality of Life Report,” detailing the […]
Ariz. Ranks 3rd on Core Construction Industry Criteria
By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Arizona’s strength as a leading construction industry market got another boost this week, as it landed in third place among the 50 states and the District of Columbia on the 2018 Merit Shop Scorecard issued by Associated Builders and Contractors. The scorecard is, “an annual state ranking based on […]
New Purchase, Expansion Plans for Park Central Mall
By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Long an icon of stalled hopes for renovation and redevelopment in Central Phoenix, the area around Park Central Mall continues to blossom into one of the city’s most dynamic areas of urban rebirth. According to an announcement this week, the ownership group behind the mall property redevelopment “has purchased […]
Saint Holdings Talks Coolidge Economic Development
By Rofida Khairalla for Coolidge Examiner Saint Holdings, a Pinal County land holding corporation, has big plans for Coolidge. At Wednesday’s Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Matthew McCormick, VP of acquisitions for Saint Holdings LLC, presented on what the company hopes to bring to the expanding city. One future development would be on approximately 11,000 acres […]