Data Center Plan Advances

By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Plans for the McDowell Road Data Center – on nearly 98 acres at the SWC of 40th Street and McDowell Road – took a step forward last week as the City of Phoenix’s Planning Commission approved the project’s Planned Unit Development request. Owner Phoenix Retail Co., LLC bought […]

Pima County Hopes to Sell Wastewater Gas

By Murphy Woodhouse for Arizona Daily Star Last year the county’s Tres Rios Wastewater Reclamation facility produced around 254M cubic feet of so-called biogas, a byproduct of the wastewater treatment process that — if cleaned — could supplant the natural gas consumption of more than 5,000 homes. However, most of the potentially valuable resource is […]

The Changing Face of “The Mall”

By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Malls in America, and in the Valley, were once not only retail powerhouses, they were cultural centers as well. Nationwide, one point of community identity was which mall you lived closest to. The combined impacts of the Great Recession, urbanization trends, online retail and the reduction of the […]

The Next Go ‘Round for Fiesta Mall

By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange After more than a decade of decline bordering on freefall, Mesa’s long-suffering Fiesta Mall has once again changed hands, this time to a local developer with plans to turn the once-dominant retail center into a “Campus” that will primarily target medical learning, community colleges and for-profit schools. Cashen […]

$126M Watermark to Start Construction

By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Tempe Town Lake’s latest major project – the 15-acre Watermark mixed-use development on the lake’s north side at Scottsdale Road and the Loop 202– is about to take off after nearly six years of planning, timing calculation and community interaction. The city’s Development Review Commission approved Fenix Development […]