Author: BEX Staff

Groundbreakings 1. Owners Southwest Public Power Agency and BrightNight, partnered with Cordelio Power to begin construction at a groundbreaking for the Box Canyon Solar Project, a 300MW solar development near Florence. The expected completion time is the first half of 2025. 2. Echo Real Estate Capital broke ground on Echo Park @ P132, a four-building project totaling nearly 183KSF of industrial space. Winton Architects, GF Group, KAEKO, Mechanical Designs and Hawkins Design Group are the project team. The expected completion date is October 2024. 3. Achen-Gardner Construction began work on the Detroit Basin & Gazelle Meadows Park area for drainage…

By Roland Murphy for AZBEX Trilogy Investment Co. has proposed a 164-unit townhome development in Avondale on 13.4 acres west of the NWC of McDowell Road and Avondale Blvd. The McDowell Villas site, which lies adjacent to the Avondale Commons master-planned mixed-use development, is currently zoned Agricultural. Trilogy is requesting a rezoning to McDowell Villas Planned Area Development. Avondale’s General Plan targets a density of 20 units/acre for the site, and the proposed project density is 13.8. The project narrative states, however, that the development will create a community with an “alternative housing typology” that will serve as a transition…

By Maricopa Association of Governments Chances are if you live in the Valley, you’ve traveled Interstate 10 through the Deck Park Tunnel. In fact, the stretch of I-10 between the Deck Park Tunnel and the I-10/Interstate 17 “Split” interchange is one of the most highly traveled freeway segments in the region, with more than 300,000 cars each day. Now, drivers can help shape future improvements in the area by taking a short survey. The survey will provide the study team with their priorities on improvements to a key downtown corridor. The Maricopa Association of Governments is conducting a corridor study…

By National Association of Home Builders The Home Builders Institute continues to expand its trades training programs into secondary schools across the country with generous funding from The Home Depot Foundation and the National Housing Endowment. Schools to Skills grant funding allows secondary schools to create or enhance a career technical education program using HBI’s nationally recognized, patented Pre-Apprenticeship Certificate Training curriculum and industry-approved certifications. PACT is designed to be hands-on and competency-based and aligns with the STEM education model. With a PACT curriculum, students can learn construction trade basics, gain practical skills, and secure industry recognized credentials. PACT is…

Giving Back 1. Rosendin and 70 construction-related companies recently collaborated to introduce 4,518 students from 122 schools in nine Arizona counties to potential career paths by showcasing new technologies and tools at the 2023 AZ Construction Career Days, presented by the Association for Construction Career Development. For more than 20 years, AZCCD has promoted career opportunities in the construction industry, connecting 40,000 Arizona students to companies and training opportunities. Rosendin participates in and sponsors the event each year to shatter stereotypes and inspire students from all backgrounds to consider a career in construction as a viable option for their future.…

Sales Transactions 1. Newmark announced it has completed the $8M sale of The Shops at Sossaman, a 34KSF neighborhood shopping center at 7641 E. Guadalupe Road in Mesa. Newmark’s Steve Julius, Jesse Goldsmith and Chase Dorsett represented the buyer, a joint venture managed by Crow Holdings Capital, and the seller, Abington Emerson Investments. 2. 2222 South Craycroft Road LLC purchased 13.8KSF of office space at 2222 S. Craycroft Road in Tucson from Vantage West Credit Union for $2.15M. Richard M. Kleiner and Alexis Corona, Office Specialists with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR, represented the seller. Gordon Wagner and Benjamin Craney…

The Buckeye City Council held a first hearing last week on a proposal to annex 157 acres of land in two parcels at the SWC of Turner Road and Southern Avenue. A second hearing and vote are scheduled for Dec. 5. If approved, the Accomazzo Property annexation will free up land for future development. The plan is filed under single-family planned residential and has the option to enter into an application for a minor General Plan amendment and rezoning to light industrial. The City has already started that process. The annexation would expand Buckeye’s General Plan amendment boundary approximately half…

By Arizona Department of Transportation The Arizona Department of Transportation has secured federal emergency funds for repairs to a bridge spanning Interstate 10 in southeast Arizona that a large truck severely damaged in a fatal crash earlier this year. The $5.3M in funding will enable ADOT to rebuild the superstructure, which includes the girders and deck, of the bridge carrying US 191 over I-10 at milepost 331, about nine miles west of Willcox. After the crash in early May, ADOT worked with a contractor to build a temporary support structure for the bridge and quickly restore I-10 traffic through the…

By National Association of Home Builders Confidence in the market for new multifamily housing was in negative territory for the third quarter, according to results from the Multifamily Market Survey released by the National Association of Home Builders. The MMS produces two separate indices. The Multifamily Production Index had a reading of 38—well below the break-even point of 50—for the third quarter while the Multifamily Occupancy Index reading was 82. The MPI measures builder and developer sentiment about current production conditions in the apartment and condo market on a scale of 0 to 100. The index and all its components…

By Roland Murphy for AZBEX – BEXCLUSIVE Arizona’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 4.2% in October, up from 4.0% for the month of September, according to the latest report published by the Arizona Office of Economic Opportunity. The national unemployment rate rose to 3.9%, up from 3.8% in September. Last October, Arizona had a seasonally adjusted rate of 4.1%, while the national rate was 3.7%. The Construction sector reported no overall gains or losses around the state last month. Arizona had a gain of 17,200 jobs in nonfarm employment in October. “Prior to the pandemic (2010-2019), NSA nonfarm employment…