Author: BEX Staff

A $10M expansion project is in the planning stage for Copper Queen Community Hospital in Bisbee. The project will expand the hospital’s surgical department allowing for increased services to be provided to the residents of Southern Arizona. According to Copper Queen officials, the hospital’s current size limits the services offered due to space constraints. The added space will allow the hospital to increase the number of surgeons as well as expand upon existing specialties within the hospital. Some of the new services the hospital is looking forward to offering include joint replacements in orthopedics and adding an adjoining endoscopy unit…

On Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly formally announced the award of $105.8M to five Arizona tribes to fund high-speed internet connections on tribal lands. The funds will come from the U.S. Department of Commerce through the Internet for All Initiative. The money is expected to fund projects through the following five agencies: Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program for Hopi Telecommunications, Inc.Navajo Tribal Utility AuthorityThe Pascua Yaqui Tribe of ArizonaSan Carlos Apache Tribal Council/Triplet Mountain Communications, Inc.The White Mountain Apache Tribe As a result of this initiative, more than 33.3K homes are expected to receive high-speed internet.…

By Roland Murphy for AZBEX The Indian Health Service division of the U.S Department of Health and Human Services is exploring the possibility of a replacement facility for the Whiteriver Hospital on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. IHS issued a Request for Information for Architect-Engineer firms on Aug. 25. The published notice is “for Market Research to determine if a set aside can fulfill the requirements set forth in this request for information.” The Service expects to issue a Request for Proposal for AE services to design a replacement Whiteriver Hospital, “a 395,844 gross square foot building.” The selected firm…

By Rebekah Morris for AZ Builder’s Exchange, LLC The owners of Bell Bank Park have agreed to a final settlement with contractors in the completion of the $100M project in East Mesa and expect all subcontractors and vendors to be paid by October 31, 2022, according to Chad Miller, CEO, Legacy Sports USA. The project was completed in January 2022 using more than $250M in Arizona Industrial Development Authority (AIDA) bonds. The project broke ground in September 2020 with an accelerated schedule and received a Temporary Certificate of Occupancy on December 31, 2021. According to Miller, Okland and their subs…

On Tuesday, Aug. 30, Corning Inc. announced plans to open a new optical cable manufacturing facility in Gilbert’s Central Business District. The plant will be located in a 317KSF facility in the new Park Lucero East commercial development south of the Loop 202, near Gilbert and Germann Roads. Corning Inc., based out of Corning, New York, specializes in the manufacturing of specialty glass, ceramic, as well as related materials and technologies including advanced optics. In the last two years, Corning has invested more than $500M in optical fiber and cable. The new Gilbert plant will be the western-most U.S. manufacturing…

JDM Partners, owner of the Wigwam, is asking the City of Litchfield Park to take another look at a proposed mixed-use development planned for the northwest corner of Litchfield Road and Wigwam Boulevard. The proposed project would include 184 apartment units, 28 townhomes, as well as 14KSF of neighborhood retail space on an approximately 14-acre site. This is not the first time that JDM has come to the city with a request to build such a project on the vacant lot. JDM initially proposed a project consisting of 150 residential units. In 2018, they more than doubled the unit count…

By LGE Design Build LGE Design Build has released its third quarter Construction Delivery Outlook report that analyzes trends and data to create construction forecasts expected to shape and influence the industry into 2023. The report examines obstacles and opportunities in various sectors in construction, including labor, supply chain, material costs and demand. A summary of the Construction Delivery Outlook key findings include: Construction Labor Labor markets continue to present challenges and the effects are being felt across many sectors of the economy. In the construction industry, the unemployment rate has been in steady decline since the height of the…

Groundbreakings 1. Mack Real Estate Group has begun construction on the first part of its massive industrial development – Mack Innovation Park – on 19th Avenue north of the Deer Valley Airport. Sites A and C will eventually provide 917KSF of warehouse space between the two sites. 2. Construction has begun on Saiya, a Hatteras Sky development consisting of a 329-unit, 23-story apartment tower with 12.6KSF of retail at First Avenue and McKinley Street in downtown Phoenix. 3. The Town of Queen Creek has broken ground on Frontier Family Park, an 85-acre parks and recreation project with a recreation and…

RAS Developments, Inc. has proposed a new mixed-use development in several aging commercial buildings along Phoenix’s Grand Canal. The project, called Forty600, will be located on approximately two-acres near Central Avenue and Coolidge Street in Phoenix’s Alhambra Village. Per city documents, the mixed-use facility will be a seven-story building consisting of about 150 luxury multifamily units, 6.8KSF of ground-floor commercial, restaurant, retail and office space. Facing the canal, the project will include four two-story live/work spaces that are intended for small business owners who can live on one floor and work on another. The canal frontage is also expected to…

By TradeUp! TradeUp! a Phoenix nonprofit dedicated to empowering children through hands-on learning in the construction trades, is seeking parents, educators and professionals in the skilled trades to volunteer at its educational workforce development program. The free afterschool program, now in its sixth session at Madison Park Middle School, introduces students to careers in the skilled trades through interactive training modules led by local construction industry experts. To kickstart the Fall 2022 program, TradeUp! is inviting industry professionals to join them on Wednesday, Aug. 31, from 3:30 – 5:30 pm at the Helios Education Foundation at 4747 N. 32nd Street,…