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 […]

Court Lifts Chinese Cultural Center Const. Ban

By Jessica Boehm for The Arizona Republic A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has lifted a temporary construction ban on the Chinese Cultural Center, allowing the center’s new owners to move forward with removal of the iconic roof later this month. The ruling, issued this week, is a blow to the Chinese-American community that has tried to preserve the center’s cultural […]

Quotes Altered in CoStar/Xceligent Fight

By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Last week I compiled information from some half-dozen different articles and outlets about the ongoing copyright and anti-competition lawsuits between CoStar Group and Xceligent. It was an interesting story regarding two of the biggest players in the U.S. commercial real estate sphere. (AZBEX, Oct. 27) The quick summary: […]

CoStar, Xceligent Fight Gets (Much) Messier

By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Having covered a lot of stories that featured real violence early in my career, I try to avoid military/violent adjectives when it comes to stories about business squabbles. However, the recent turns and twists in the ongoing feud between CoStar and Xceligent are best described with terms like […]

New Lawsuit Filed Over APEX

By Kevin Reagan for Casa Grande Dispatch A second civil lawsuit has been filed against the City of Maricopa for approving the construction of a racetrack. The complaint was filed by Bonita Burks last week in Pinal County Superior Court, a couple of weeks after a separate lawsuit was filed by a committee named Maricopa […]

Group Sues Maricopa Over Ballot Refusal

By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange The sniping between a political action committee calling itself Maricopa Citizens Protecting Taxpayers and Maricopa city officials over plans to build the APEX Motor Club turned into a full-on legal war over the past two weeks. After city officials declined to forward a ballot proposition by the group […]