Legacy Traditional Schools Expands to Surprise
Source: AZ Big Media Legacy Traditional Schools is building a second school in the Surprise area, located at Cactus Road and Cotton Lane. The West Surprise school, which is Legacy’s 16th Arizona campus, is scheduled to open in the fall of 2020. Legacy Traditional School – West Surprise will open its doors at a brand […]
AJ School District Seeks Bonds, Override
By Richard H. Dyer for Apache Junction Independent Voters in a November 5th election will consider authorizing Apache Junction Unified School District to issue and sell $60M in school-improvement bonds and exceed its budget by the lesser of $2M or 10 percent of its revenue control limit. The district’s first override passed in 1999 and […]
Cherokee Elementary Rebuild Design Plans on Display
By Josh Martinez for Paradise Valley Independent Officials from Orcutt | Winslow, an architect firm working on the rebuild of Cherokee Elementary School, stood before the Scottsdale Unified School District Governing Board Tuesday, August 20th to give an update on their ongoing project. The update included a design concept, which the firm presented previously at […]
Chandler Unified Proposing New Elementary School
By Tasha Anderson for AZBEX Chandler Unified School District is looking to build a new elementary school at Ocotillo Road and 14th Street in Gilbert, due to rising enrollment rates in the southeast region of the district. The project, called Elementary School #31, is planned as the development of a 91KSF building on 13 acres […]
Is Lack of Oversight at Alhambra Leading to Wasteful Contracts?
By Rebekah Morris for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Inefficient contracts… Lack of oversight and documentation… Resistance to market trends… These are a few of the issues plaguing one of the poorest public school districts in a state that Governing.com has ranked 49th in per pupil funding as recently as June 2018. Forty-five million dollars in bond […]
K12 Procurement Changes Coming Courtesy of SUSD
By Rebekah Morris for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Last month the Red for Ed budget bill caught the local building industry completely off-guard when it included a last-minute amendment that has far-reaching impacts on public K12 procurements. (AZBEX, May 8th) This week I had the opportunity to sit down with the Speaker of the Arizona House […]
K12 Procurement Law Change Sends Shocks
By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Legislation signed by Governor Doug Ducey last week ended a statewide teacher walkout, increased teacher pay and promised increased funding for K12 education in Arizona. It also sent A/E/C professionals around the state into a tizzy because of one section that has, to date, received little to no […]
FMI Releases Positive 2018 Growth Outlook
By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Management consulting and investment banking term FMI, which is, “dedicated exclusively to engineering and construction, infrastructure and the built environment,” has released its, “Construction Outlook First Quarter Report,” and is forecasting a 7 percent increase in total construction and engineering spending across the U.S. in 2018. For comparison, […]
Maricopa County 2017 Bonds & Overrides
By Ricardo Cano for The Arizona Republic Voters in 22 Maricopa County school districts will decide in the Nov. 7 election whether to approve bonds and overrides – temporary, local property-tax-funded measures districts say they use to help offset longstanding cuts in state education funding. This will be the first election in which all such measures in the […]
Budget Holds AEC Challenges, Opportunities
By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange The FY 2018 Executive Budget proposed by Governor Doug Ducey earlier this month maintains some ongoing challenges and offers up some interesting potential nuggets and for AEC efforts over the next few years. One sector that is, once again, not feeling much fiduciary love is the state’s highway […]