Giving Back
1. Brycon joined together with the City of Chandler and participated in their ‘For Our City’ program, focusing on their 2022 Operation Back to School event. Brycon was able to donate 100 backpacks filled with school supplies benefitting youth in the Chandler Unified School District. Employees donated money, bought supplies, and spent their morning assembling all 100 backpacks.
2. Greenlight Communities announced two new charity partnerships for this month for the next Greenlight Gives initiative. Greenlight donated $1,200 to the Arizona Builder Alliance’s Annual Backpack Drive to provide 200 backpacks for school children in the Valley. The company is also partnering with Kids in Focus for their annual Noche Para Los Niños event in November. Proceeds from the event will fund photography mentoring programs.
Awards & Accolades
3. Ranking Arizona has named its Top 10 Multifamily Builders in Arizona for 2022:
1. Mark-Taylor Companies;
2. MT Builders Companies;
3. Cachet Homes;
4. Optima Construction;
5. CHASSE Building Team;
6. Statesman Group of Companies;
7. Alliance Residential Company;
8. Decca Multi-Family Builders;
9. Liv Communities, and
10. Adolfson & Peterson Construction.
4. AZRE Magazine has named its Most Influential Women in Real Estate for 2022.
- Morgan Betancourt, project director, Okland Construction;
- Keri Davies, partner, LevRose Commercial Real Estate;
- Alicia Hardwick, leasing manager, Prologis;
- Michelle Heeb, president and CEO, Forward Tilt;
- Dani Huval, business development director, Chasse Building Team;
- Bev Jensen, regional operations manager, Colliers;
- Carrie Kelly, executive director, Arizona Association for Economic Development;
- Alexandra Loye, executive managing director, Cushman & Wakefield;
- Stephanie Maderazzo-Hughes, CEO and COO, Canyon State Electric;
- Nancy McClure, first VP, CBRE;
- Kathleen Morgan, managing director, Newmark;
- Vicki Robinson, senior VP, JLL;
- Heather Skinner, VP of global real estate, JP Morgan Chase;
- Angela Watson, president and CEO, Shepley Bulfinch.
5. Encore Landscape Management was recently named as one of the 2022 Best Landscape and Lawn Care Companies to Work For. This inaugural awards program was created in 2022 and is a project of Lawn & Landscape magazine and Best Companies Group.
Company News
6. Eco Material Technologies has begun operations at a new plant near Skull Valley. The company’s Kirkland Pozzolan Mine converts volcanic ash into “green cement” for environmentally sustainable building materials.
Promotions
7. Michelle Walker has been promoted to VP of Operations at SSC Underground.
8. YESCO has promoted Crystal Helgeson to Account Executive.
New Hires
9. Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. announced Tim Johnson has joined the company as Landscape Architect in Tucson.
10. Roger Shorthill has joined W.E. O’Neil Construction as Project Superintendent.
11. Achen-Gardner announced the addition of Omar Terrazas as a Project Engineer.
In Memoriam
12. Will Friend – CEO of commercial real estate industry news and event site Bisnow for the last seven years – has passed away unexpectedly at the age of 33.