Pima Soliciting SoQs for Kino South Complex
Source: Pima County Master developers interested in bringing additional sports amenities and commercial opportunities to the Kino South Complex have until March 11th to submit their proposals. The expansion site has more than 80 acres available for sports, events, hotel, retail, restaurant or other development. “This is an excellent opportunity for developers to work with the […]
Foothills Mall Redevelopment Moving Forward
By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Originally developed in 1981, the 22-parcel, 68-acre Foothills Mall in unincorporated Pima County will undergo a massive renovation and restoration as a multi-modal live/work/play destination under an ambitious master plan submitted to the county’s Development Services Department last month by owners FHM Partners, LLC. According to the proposal’s […]
Pima May be Skirting Laws with Amazon NDAs
By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange When we broke the news last week that Project Wildcat, the hush-hush 2.3MSF project in initial planning for the Century Research Park/Port of Tucson was, in fact, for an Amazon fulfillment and distribution center, we knew a lot of other reporters were going to jump on the story […]
That Giant Tucson Project? Yeah, It’s Amazon
The Tucson area has been abuzz with speculation about a massive (technically) speculative warehouse/distribution center project being planned for Century Park Research Center/Port of Tucson that would have a footprint of between 800KSF and 1MSF. We’re sorry for being a couple days late to the party, but AZBEX can confirm plans are in the works; […]
GEICO to Get 200KSF Regional Office in Tucson
By AZBEX Staff for Arizona Builder’s Exchange In a major win for the Tucson area, Sun Corridor, Inc. issued a press release this week that Bourn Companies will develop and build a new 200KSF regional office for GEICO at The Bridges master-planned site in Tucson. The new building is planned on 20 acres near 36th […]
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 […]
Pima Plans 12 New Fields Near Kino Complex
By Murphy Woodhouse for Arizona Daily Star When it comes to local youth soccer, football and other long-field sports, participating in major tournaments often means hitting the road to Phoenix and other cities across the West with larger facilities. That also means that millions of dollars worth of spending — and the tax receipts it […]
The Loop to See a Lot of Work in 2017
By Murphy Woodhouse for Arizona Daily Star As it stands, Pima County’s well-known Loop paved path system is not technically a loop. However, work on tap in 2017 will bring a closed, car-free metro circuit much closer to reality. Additional projects planned for other parts of The Loop, as well as separate path systems that […]