Author: BEX Staff

The Queen Creek Town Council is expected to vote this week on a rezoning request for a new 847.6KSF speculative industrial development near Germann and Meridian Roads. Phelan @ Meridian will place six buildings of between 122KSF and 165.1KSF on approximately 47 acres. Each building will feature 6KSF of office space and will be configurable for single occupants or multiple tenants. (Source)

Plans for a new temporary soccer stadium for Phoenix Rising FC have advanced with the Phoenix City Council’s 8-0 vote to approve an approximately 10-acre site at 38th and Washington Street. The plan calls for the construction of a new stadium and associated facilities on Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport land at the northeast end of the airport. Components may include practice facilities, concessions and a portable sportsbook. This will be the team’s third temporary facility. It has played at the Phoenix Rising FC Soccer Complex at Wild Horse Pass in Chandler since 2021. Before that, games were held at…

By Roland Murphy for AZBEX The Surprise Planning and Zoning Commission will hear a request this week for a site plan to allow the development of a 274KSF warehouse and office project at the SEC of 137th Avenue and Soledad Street. The Surprise Pointe Industrial proposal calls for a 260KSF warehouse space and 13.7KSF accompanying office area in a single building on 16.23 acres in the Surprise Pointe Planned Area Development. P&Z approved a master site plan for Surprise Pointe in 2006. Under the existing PAD, building height maximums are set at 35 feet. The application requests an extension to…

By BEX Staff for AZBEX Local media outlets are reporting that in a surprising bidding war, HonorHealth has outbid fellow healthcare system Banner Health in an auction for a 48-acre Arizona State Land Department parcel near Hayden Road and the Loop 101 freeway in north Scottsdale. Banner was the initial applicant for the auction, requesting to purchase the land as the site for its proposed 951KSF Banner Health North Scottsdale Medical Campus. To be built in three phases, the development was to include a 385KSF acute patient care hospital of up to 300 beds, supporting uses, parking structures, helipads, medical…

By BEX Staff for AZBEX In our Oct. 18 issue, we ran a listing of all 24 bond, maintenance override and district additional assistance overrides for school districts in Maricopa County. Rather than reinvent the wheel, we are repeating that list and updating it with the latest results – as of 6 a.m. Nov. 17 – from this month’s general election. (AZBEX; Oct. 18) Agua Fria Union High School District $209M bond for multiple uses, including construction of a new high school: Too close to call. Appears to be failing. 15% override renewal: Approved. Buckeye Union High School District 10%…

By Roland Murphy for AZBEX Two standard indicators of construction industry confidence – Associated Builders and Contractors’ Construction Confidence Index and the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index – both declined in their most recent surveys. While the October ABC CCI showed confidence in future sales increasing, profit margin and staffing predictions declined. All three indicators remain in positive territory, however, with readings greater than the midpoint of 50. CCI sales readings for Oct. 2022 came in at 57.2, up from 55.1 in September. Profit margin confidence fell to 50.4 from 52.5 and staffing dropped to 58.9…

Groundbreakings 1. Overland Group’s Avondale Commons, a 22.6- acre mixed-use development on the NWC of Avondale Blvd. and McDowell Road is set to start construction. The project consists of four luxury apartment buildings, a hotel, two restaurants, four office buildings and several retail shops. The first portion of the four-building, 39.7KSF medical office complex is underway and anticipated to deliver in Q2 2024. 2. IndiCap and AECOM-Canyon Partners held a groundbreaking recently for Eastmark Center of Industry, a 113-acre industrial park in Mesa. At completion, the park will total 10 buildings and more than 1.6MSF. 3. Logistics Property Company disclosed its plans…

Kaplan Multifamily has proposed a 612-unit apartment community with commercial and non-residential uses for a 13.26-acre site near Recker and Williams Field roads in the Cooley Station community of Gilbert. The developer is requesting a General Plan amendment and rezoning to allow two, four-story apartment buildings, 15KSF of commercial space and more than 25KSF of non-residential uses on the ground floors of the two apartment buildings. The apartments in District at Cooley Station would be in two buildings. The non-residential could include retail, a fitness outlet, workspaces and/or an urban grocer. Such uses require a conditional use permit. The retail-commercial…

The Chandler City Council has tabled a vote on data center development restrictions until next month. The proposed ordinance would have imposed several restrictions, including: Prohibiting data center operations in the city unless they were directly approved as part of a planned area development, Notification of residents within a half-mile of planned sites of the intent to build, Requiring a minimum of two developer/owner-led neighborhood meetings, Strict noise mitigations, and Maintenance of a public website announcing operation times for backup power generators if they are to be used. An attorney for Aligned Data Centers contacted the City Attorney’s Office to…

After having been previously withdrawn due to organized resident groups and Scottsdale City Council opposition, two multifamily developments have been revised and have earned Development Review Board recommendations. DRB voted Nov. 3 to recommend Mercado Courtyards (formerly 92 Ironwood) and 94 Hundred Shea (formerly 9400 Shea) for approval by Council and the Planning Commission. Members found the projects meet the City’s neighborhood compatibility and benefit requirements, along with environmental responsiveness and green building requirements. Other acknowledged benefits include increases in shading of adjacent properties and promotion of connectivity and visible open space. Mercado Courtyards Mercado Courtyards is planned for 273…