Author: BEX Staff

By BEX Staff for AZBEX Along with the announcement of a $20M private donation, The Desert Caballeros Western Museum in Wickenburg has also announced a name change and a major expansion. Wickenburg couple Carey and Jack Sigler have donated $20M to the facility, which has now been renamed the Sigler Western Museum. The Sigler gift will be combined with $9.25M in donations raised from several sources, and the facility will soon break ground on a new museum and pavilion across the street from its current location, according to a recent announcement on the group website. “The new $30M facility will…

Awards & Accolades 1. ACEC Arizona recently issued its Excellence in Arizona Engineering Awards for 2025. Awards and winners included: The 2025 Clifford C. Sawyer Achievement Award, presented to J2 Engineering and Environmental Design, Town of Queen Creek, Frontier Family Park; and the 2025 People’s Choice Award, presented to AECOM, Valley Metro, South Central Extension/Downtown Hub. 2. The Refinery, the flagship building at the University of Arizona Tech Park at The Bridges, has earned LEED Silver Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. Groundbreakings 3. Preliminary site work has begun on Arizona State University Health’s new 200KSF headquarters on the…

The addition of an $80M-plus indoor football stadium to the planned new high school facility continues to draw commentary about the Tolleson Union High School District. Superintendent Jeremy Calles says the addition could be approved in two-to-three months. No other metro Phoenix school has an indoor stadium, and opponents say the plan could create expensive future maintenance costs. Calles estimates the entire cost for Tolleson High School #8, including the stadium, will be between $220M and $400M. Renderings for the facility are expected before the TUHSD Board’s next meeting on Nov. 18. Two of the three Board members who have…

By Roland Murphy for AZBEX It’s do-or-die time for Axon Enterprise’s ongoing fight to build an international headquarters campus in north Scottsdale. City Council met Monday night to consider whether to enter into a potential armistice agreement or to authorize filing claims in a lawsuit to stop the plan. A special session was announced late last week to consider a memorandum of understanding that would put an end to the conflict between Axon and the City. The meeting took place after this issue went to press. The agenda and the contents of the MOU have been available for several days,…

The City of Phoenix is planning to expand its apprenticeship program and make it permanent. In January 2024, the City partnered with local private businesses to create apprenticeship opportunities to expand the regional workforce. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company was the first private partner, and multiple other businesses have since joined the program. The expansion comes as the second phase of the program recently wrapped up. The Phoenix Economic Development and the Arts Subcommittee approved a Memorandum of Understanding with the Maricopa Community Colleges and Northern Arizona University to provide educational opportunities for the programs. An additional MOU allows the Community…

By Arizona Office of Economic Opportunity The Office of Economic Opportunity is projecting Arizona employment to increase to 3,950,414 jobs in 2034 from 3,496,247 jobs in 2024. This represents growth of 454,167 jobs (1.2% annual change). By comparison, United States employment is projected to grow by 0.3% annually from 2024 to 2034. Over the previous ten years (2014 to 2024), Arizona employment increased by 761,556 jobs (2.5% annual change), to 3,496,247 jobs in 2024 from 2,734,691 jobs in 2014. United States employment grew 1.2% annually from 2014 to 2024. Supersector Employment Eleven Arizona supersectors are projected to gain jobs, with…

Giving Back 1. Brycon partnered with the local Veterans Administration office to donate monetary contributions and wish list items for the COACH program, which supports Arizona veterans with Alzheimer’s and dementia. Awards & Accolades 2. Phoenix Sky Harbor recently received the Level Three rating in the Airport Workforce Development Accreditation Program. Sky Harbor received the award at the Airports Council International – North America & Airports Council International World General Assembly, Conference and Exhibition. 3. PTK Magazine announced its list of Arizona Industrial Brokers to Know in 2026. The list consists of: Cooper Fratt – CBRE, Keri Scott – Colliers,…

Sales Transactions 1. The 194-unit Bella Grace Build-to-Rent community in Chandler recently sold for $69M. Golden Horizon Enterprises purchased the asset. Berkadia’s Mark Forrester, Ric Holway, Dan Cheyne and Andrew Curtis represented the seller, an affiliate of The Inland Real Estate Group of Companies, Inc. 2. A 312-unit multifamily community called Ventura Villas at 6200 S. Campbell Ave. in Tucson recently sold for $31.7M. RDM Tucson, LLC sold the multifamily complex to Pacific Transwest – Nevada, Inc. Northmarq’s Trevor Koskovich, Jesse Hudson, Ryan Boyle and Logan Baca represented the seller. 3. ATLAS Capital Partners sold a 60.5KSF industrial building at…

By Roland Murphy for AZBEX The BEX Healthcare Leading Market Series event is almost always the best attended of the year, and the capacity crowd this week at SkySong showed that trend is continuing. Sponsored by Kitchell Corporation, this year’s panel focused on the changes in development and facilities planning brought about by current market forces and regulatory evolutions, including this year’s Big Beautiful Bill and its impacts on healthcare reimbursements. The LMS panel consisted of: Peter Gray, Associate VP, HonorHealth; Aron Kirch, Regional Executive, Kitchell Corporation – Moderator; Russ Korcuska, Senior VP – Facilities & Supply Chain, Phoenix Children’s…

By BEX Staff for AZBEX A nine-hole golf course at the Westin Kierland Resort and Spa could be turned into a new luxury housing development under a plan submitted to the City of Phoenix. The Mesquite Golf Club is one of three nine-hole courses on the property. While leaving two of the three courses intact, owner Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. wants to convert Mesquite’s roughly 72 acres into a mixed housing development of multifamily/condos and traditional single-family homes under a Planned Unit Development called Copper Residences. Along with the PUD rezoning, the owners are requesting a General Plan amendment…