Author: BEX Staff

By Chelsea Hofmann for Cronkite News Doorknobs overflow rows of boxes, piles of miscellaneous wood and squares of carpet lay neatly on the floor. Light fixtures hang from various shelves – all of it discarded construction and demolition waste. A 2015 Environmental Protection Agency fact sheet on construction and demolition waste found more than 545 million tons of debris ended up in landfills every year, even though 75 percent of those materials had the potential for reuse. Companies like the nonprofit Stardust Building Supplies are working to stop waste from ending up in landfills by providing deconstruction services and selling…

Awards & Accolades 1. Henderson Engineers Senior Plumbing Designer John Gregory was recognized as the PM Engineer Magazine Plumbing Engineer of the Year. Company News 2. Phoenix investment group True North Cos., developer for the former Chinese Cultural Center, Phoenix, has changed its name to Outlier LLC. 3. Green building materials manufacturer and developer Rechsand announced it will locate a manufacturing facility in Yuma. The new, state-of-the-art plant will house the production, development and distribution of next-generation engineered sand products, and create jobs for more than 110 people in this innovative industry. 4. Goodmans Interior Structures, a Phoenix-based office furniture…

Sales Transactions 1. Multifamily real estate investment, development and management company Cortland has officially closed on the Pure Multi-Family REIT acquisition for $1.2B in cash and has become the largest apartment owner in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and significantly expands its presence in Phoenix. 2. Coastal Ridge Real Estate, iA Financial Group from The Dinerstein Companies and Harrison Street Real Estate purchased Sterling 920 Terrace, a 775-bed student housing community located near Arizona State University in Tempe, for an undisclosed price. TSB Capital Advisors represented the seller. 3. Town West Realty purchased the Oro Valley Marketplace, a 518KSF shopping center…

By Sammy Williams for AZBEX The Town of Gilbert council met September 19th to approve a zoning change for the proposed ACES of Gilbert special education campus on the SEC of Bluejay Drive and Galveston Street (near the NWC of Williams Field and Power Roads). The meeting followed the unanimous recommendation of the town’s planning commission to rezone the 4.8-acre site from Business Park to Neighborhood Office. ACES (Austin Centers for Exceptional Students) is the largest private provider of special education services in Arizona and operates schools in Peoria, West Phoenix and Tempe. This will be the second ACES campus in Gilbert,…

By Tasha Anderson for AZBEX Developer, Quyp Development Services requested site plan approval for Heritage on Dysart, a multifamily residential development to be developed on 9.55 acres south of Elm Street and east of Dysart Road in Surprise. The City of Surprise heard and approved the request at its September 19th Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. The project is planned as a 120-unit townhome development consisting of two-story townhomes ranging from 1.5KSF-1.8KSF. Models are 3-bedroom/2.5-bathroom units with either side or patio entry and private patios. Some 2-bedroom options will also be available. The design is a mix of Mid-Century modern…

By Suzanne Adams-Ockrassa for Casa Grande Dispatch Lucid Motors has submitted its site plan to the Casa Grande Planning and Development office for review, according to Casa Grande Economic Development Director Richard Wilkie. Wilkie said he expects the company to break ground before the end of the year, although some grading work has been done at the site. He also still has some hope for the PhoenixMart and Dreamport Villages projects. PhoenixMart was planned as a 1.5MSF wholesale center that was slated to hold more than 1,800 showrooms where businesses could showcase and sell their products. Dreamport was proposed as…

Source: Federal Aviation Administration U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $986M in airport infrastructure grants, the fifth allotment of the total $3.18B in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States. “This significant investment in airport improvements in Arizona will fund construction and rehabilitation projects that will help maintain high levels of safety in U.S. aviation,” said Chao. The Arizona grants include the following awards: Two grants totaling $21,917,300 to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport–$21,375,000 for apron reconstruction. An apron is an area where aircraft park, load and…

Awards & Accolades 1. The American Planning Association (APA) has named Pioneer Park in Mesa, one of six Great Public Spaces on APA’s annual Great Places in America list, which starts the countdown to National Community Planning Month in October. Groundbreakings 2. Evergreen Devco Inc. has started construction on its latest 172KSF multitenant retail center, called the Post at Cooley Station, which will be built at the SEC of Recker and Williams Field roads in Gilbert. The project is expected to complete construction in the third quarter of 2020. Butler Design Group, Optimus Civil Design Group, Kraemer Engineers and Laskin…

by Adam Baugh for Withey Morris, PLC There is a phrase everybody knows: Buyer Beware. Ironically, one of the fatal mistakes a developer can make is purchasing an online zoning summary report (ZR) from a national vendor and assume that covers the breadth and depth of a site’s zoning entitlements and issues. Due diligence in a box, as I like to call it, is purchased online and prepared by out-of-state vendors offering to summarize the zoning and permitting entitlements for a property. The purpose is to give buyers awareness and comfort regarding the entitlement history of the asset. They also…

By Tasha Anderson for AZBEX Phoenix Union High School District is looking to revamp several of their auditorium and athletic facilities across four school regions in Phoenix. In order to accomplish this, PUSD has recently issued four Requests for Qualifications, one for each region, to obtain Construction Manager at Risk Services for the modernization projects. According to the RFQs, the auditorium renovations will include the replacement of stage flooring, stage and house lighting along with lighting controls and A/V, and seating and flooring, as well as renovations to the lobby and restrooms and addressing ADA deficiencies. The outdoor athletic fields…