Author: BEX Staff

Groundbreakings 1. Phase 1 of Gilbert’s still-unnamed 272-acre regional park has broken ground. The park runs along the west side of Higley Road and stretches southward from Queen Creek Road to the south of Ocotillo Road. Completions 2. PCS Development recently completed The Premiere at Dana Park, a 198-unit multifamily community in Mesa. The company has tapped P.B. Bell as management firm for the property. Tofel Dent Construction was the general contractor. 3. Westgate Village, 8847 W. Glendale Ave., was recently completed and has opened. The senior living facility has 129 units and could have up to 220 residents on…

By Jane Stewart for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Representatives from Piper Plastics, Inc. made a presentation to the City of Mesa’s Design Review Board at its May 8 meeting regarding a proposed headquarters for the plastics manufacturing company. The subject site is a vacant parcel of approximately five acres at 4818 East Indigo Street within the Mesa Commerce Center Business Park. The proposed development includes an industrial-use two story building with a total square footage of 86.5KSF broken down into 77KSF on the first floor with the second floor being 9.3KSF. The manufacturing space is 60.9KSF; the warehouse space is 14KSF.…

By AZBEX Staff for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Tech Parks Arizona, on behalf of the University of Arizona and Campus Research Corporation, has announced the development partners selected for new projects at the UA Tech Park at The Bridges and the UA Tech Park at Rita Road in Tucson. Technology Precinct in the UA Tech Park at The Bridges The Boyer Company has been selected as the development partner to design, develop and finance the Technology Precinct in the UA Tech Park at The Bridges. The Technology Precinct encompasses 20 acres of land in the larger 65-acre UA Tech Park at The…

Sales Transactions 1. Tides Equities LLC has paid $37.25M for the 376-unit Fairways at Cave Creek, with plans to invest about $7M to renovate the property. The company also closed on a 65-unit apartment complex in Tempe, paying $7.5M for Epic at University Pointe, with plans to invest $3M in renovations. 2. HFF announced $33.5M in financing for Autumn Creek Apartments, a 360-unit, multi-housing community in Chandler. HFF worked on behalf of Western Wealth Capital, which acquired the property on behalf of the borrower, an MDC Realty Advisors USA, Inc.-managed fund, to secure the five-year, floating-rate loan through an international…

By AZBEX Staff for Arizona Builder’s Exchange We at AZBEX are delighted to announce we have recently added two new staff members to our team. Amanda Murray has joined the team as Office Administrator to keep Rebekah, Rachel, Roland and the non-alliterative staff on task and running smoothly. She has a background in English and English Education that has already proven useful in terms of assisting with both internal and public-facing communications. When she’s not in the office, Amanda enjoys the finer things in life, like chauffeuring her 8 year-old, scheduling hair appointments for her poodle (Nibbler), and tidying up after her…

By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Environmentally Responsible Recyclers in Mesa is planning to more than double the functional space on its site at 730 E. Southern Ave. The current location includes office space, a warehouse and retail store. In its submissions to the city, the company cites a need for overall improvements and additional warehouse space to handle its volume of work. If approved, the current 32KSF warehouse, office and retail area will be augmented with 40KSF of new warehouse and addition space behind and connected to the current structure. According to the documents, “The new addition will…

Awards & Accolades 1. Phoenix Business Journal has published its list of Top Commercial Building Contractors. With $486.84M in 2017 billings for Ariz. buildings, Sundt Construction, Inc. took the top honor, up from number 8 last year. The full list is available here. 2. STORE Capital VP – Controller Claire Janssen received the 2018 Arizona Controller of the Year Award presented by Financial Executives International’s local chapter. Boards & Commissions 3. The Arizona Builders Alliance has officially announced the hiring of Tom Dunn, VP of Southern Arizona, to replace Mark Minter, who is retiring after serving the statewide association for 41…

Progress Reports 1. The owners of Tucson’s Funtasticks Family Fun Park are adding new water features. Pro Parks Management is building a play area with a splash pad and several bucket drops over slides and climbing bars at the park, 221 E. Wetmore Road. Grail Construction is doing the work. 2. Florence Copper’s solvent extraction and electrowinning plant is under construction off Hunt Highway. The company hopes to produce its first sheet of copper around Christmas. Completions 3. Salt River Project and NextEra Energy Resources LLC announced the opening of the 258,000-panel Pinal Central Solar Energy Center in Casa Grande. It is the…

By Tasha Anderson for Arizona Builder’s Exchange If all goes according to plan, a run-down office plaza at 40th Street and McDowell will become the areas latest adaptive re-use renovation. Applicant, Earl, Curley & Lagarde, P.C., on behalf of developer, Real Estate and More LLC, is requesting a rezoning of an approximately +/- 1.91-acre site at the northwest corner of McDowell Road and 41st Place, from the current C-2 zoning district to Planned Unit Development, to allow for an adaptive re-use conversion of an existing five-story office development into 40 East, a mixed-use urban development. According to the PUD narrative…

By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange We don’t have people to do the jobs. We won’t have them for quite a while, and it’s our fault. 160 people filled the ballroom at the Phoenix Country Club on May 18 to hear the somber message, but no one argued against it. A panel, moderated by Jordan Rose, Rose Law Group founder and president and consisting of Dan Haag, Sundt Construction senior VP and chief administration officer; Jackie Elliott, Central Arizona College president and CEO, and Mike Greenawalt, Rosendin Electric, senior VP of operations, gave the room an overview of the…