VP Planning/Community Dev. Departments Status List

Source: Valley Partnership  AZBEX Note: To keep members informed of the operating status of the various planning and development offices, Valley Partnership issued the following list on Monday, March 23rd. The list is current as of March 20th. The group plans to update and add new information as it becomes available.   Members with questions are asked to […]

Labor Shortage is our Fault. We’re Not Fixing it

By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange We don’t have people to do the jobs. We won’t have them for quite a while, and it’s our fault. 160 people filled the ballroom at the Phoenix Country Club on May 18 to hear the somber message, but no one argued against it. A panel, moderated by […]

Experts Weigh in on State of Development

By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Four commercial real estate and development leaders gave their predictions for what lies ahead in 2018 at Valley Partnership’s Friday Morning Breakfast program, Jan. 26. Following a brief address by Republican U.S. Senate candidate, and current congressional representative, Martha McSally, moderator Mark Detmer, managing director of JLL, introduced […]

GPLETs Face Scrutiny, Changes at Legislature

By Mike Sunnucks for Phoenix Business Journal The Arizona Legislature is again looking at property tax breaks cities give to developers and businesses. That includes changing the rules that govern them and restricting them. Conservatives at the Legislature have been scrutinizing and targeting tax breaks called Government Property Lease Excise Taxes. Those involve cities leasing […]