Construction Output Drops Significantly
Source: Associated Builders and Contractors The U.S. economy contracted at an annualized rate of 32.9 percent during the second quarter of 2020, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Nonresidential and residential fixed investment contracted by 27.0 and 38.7 percent, respectively, while investment in nonresidential fixed structures contracted by […]
TSMC to Build Semiconductor Plant in Phoenix
Source: Arizona Commerce Authority Governor Doug Ducey has announced that following a national search, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has selected Arizona for its new U.S. advanced semiconductor factory. The project will create more than 1,600 new high-tech jobs and generate thousands of additional jobs in the state for suppliers and other companies within the semiconductor industry. TSMC’s total spending on this project, including capital expenditure, […]
SkyBridge Creates Opportunity to Grow Other Sectors
By Erin Thorburn for AZ Big Media Erik Lee, executive director for North American Research Partnership, summarizes the impact very succinctly. “SkyBridge is the most consequential Mexico-Arizona business project in this part of Arizona,” Lee states emphatically. SkyBridge marks the nation’s first inland air cargo hub to house a joint United States-Mexico customs facility. The recent groundbreaking […]
Metal Manufacturing Whse for Mesa Business Park
By Adrienne St. Clair for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Blue Water Group, LLC has submitted a project proposal to the City of Mesa to build a single-story manufacturing building on the SEC of Jasmine and 48th Streets. The project, called Project Jasmine, will be built on an 8.5-acre property located south of both McKellips Road and […]
Cives Steel Plans 8th Facility in El Mirage
By Adrienne St. Clair for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Cives Steel Company has submitted a plan to the City of El Mirage to build a steel manufacturing facility as part of the CenterPoint Logistics Park, which as a whole consists of 317 acres at the SWC of Peoria Avenue and Dysart Road. The new manufacturing facility, […]
Piper Plastics Proposes Mesa HQ
By Jane Stewart for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Representatives from Piper Plastics, Inc. made a presentation to the City of Mesa’s Design Review Board at its May 8 meeting regarding a proposed headquarters for the plastics manufacturing company. The subject site is a vacant parcel of approximately five acres at 4818 East Indigo Street within the […]
Orbital ATK Planning Expansion in Mesa
By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Defense contractor and aerospace firm Orbital ATK is planning an expansion and site improvements at its Gun Systems facility in Mesa, near Greenfield Road and Loop 202 Red Mountain Freeway. According to documents submitted to the city by Deutsch Architecture Group on behalf of Orbital ATK Gun Systems […]