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Author: BEX Staff
Cactus Portable Pods, a subsidiary of Portable On Demand Storage, or PODS, will build a 100KSF warehouse facility on 7.82 acres at 1901 W. Cooper St. The facility will serve to house portable, climate-controlled moving and storage pods. Construction is expected within the next two years. (Source)
By BEX Staff for AZBEX The Casa Grande Planning and Zoning Commission will consider three major multifamily projects in its meeting this week. The first project under consideration is known as FLATZ 387. P&Z will consider a major Planned Area Development amendment to a 10.33-acre location in the McCartney Center PAD from commercial land use to multifamily to allow the creation of a 247-unit apartment community. Developer Z Modular has selected STG Design as the project architect. No general contractor or construction timeline have been announced. The second development is a rezoning request from Maximillian Investment Company to change 18.5…
By Roland Murphy for AZBEX – BEXCLUSIVE On a 7-0 vote, the Buckeye Planning and Zoning Commission has approved a site plan for 29SC Apartments, a 408-unit development planned for the SEC of 255th Avenue and MC 85. The 15.94-acre site had previously been platted as Roers at Buckeye 29. According to the submitted narrative, the site was zoned Downtown Commercial in 2021. Multifamily development is permitted under the current zoning. The proposed development is planned for 408 garden style apartments distributed across 15 buildings. The planned mix is 126 one-bedroom, 226 two-bedroom and 56 three-bedroom units. Sizes will range…
Creation Equity and LGE Design Build are planning a three-building, 268.8KSF industrial development on 16 acres near the SEC of Elliot Road and Hardy Drive in Tempe. The site is currently occupied by a vacant two-story office building called the Elliot Corporate Center. The proposal for Elliot and Hardy would deliver 215KSF of warehouse space and 53.8KSF of office, according to project documents. The property is currently owned by ECC Asset Acquisition Company LLC. The project is represented by Gammage & Burnham. (Source)
Ridgehouse Capital has proposed a 235-unit, seven-story apartment community at 514 E. Lincoln St. in downtown Phoenix. The development joins nearly a dozen others in a pipeline of nearly 3,200 units within a mile of Chase Field stadium. Plans for the 1.6-acre site include 235 apartments, a retail gallery, an amenity deck with a swimming pool, a dog park and a leasing office. A subsidiary of Ridgehouse previously paid $9.5M for the property. Ridgehouse has chosen VE Design Group as the design firm and uses Mission Constructors, its internal general contractor, to build its communities. (Source)
By Associated Builders and Contractors The construction industry had 350,000 job openings on the last day of August, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. JOLTS defines a job opening as any unfilled position for which an employer is actively recruiting. Industry job openings decreased by 3,000 last month but are up by 5,000 from the same time last year. “The number of open, unfilled construction positions declined in August but remains higher than both one year ago and the pre-pandemic level,” said ABC…
Groundbreakings 1. Chandler Unified School District broke ground on Galveston Elementary School a 72KSF elementary school. Orcutt | Winslow partnered with McCarthy Building Companies as the architect and general contractor. The rebuild is expected to cost $25M and be completed in October 2024. The demolition and construction of the new athletic fields are expected to be completed in October 2025. 2. Adolfson & Peterson Construction began construction at Superstition Springs Lexus, a 35KSF dealership in Mesa. LOMA Architecture is the architect for the project. Completion is expected around the end of the year. The expected completion is the end of…
Aspirant Development is planning a 25-story multifamily tower at 1500 N. Central Ave. in Phoenix. The location at Central and McDowell Road is near the Phoenix Art Museum and the Burton Barr Central Library. The site is also located on the Central Avenue light rail line. Plans call for 320 units with one- and two-bedroom apartments and 3KSF of ground floor retail. There will be approximately 17KSF of additional retail/restaurant space in separate buildings. The property’s current zoning allows for the planned use, and no public hearing will be required. Aspirant officials said the company is working through the design…
The Phoenix City Council will vote this week on a development agreement and incentive package that will enable cancer detection company Exact Sciences Corporation to build a 250KSF lab, office, manufacturing and warehouse space at the NEC of Sky Harbor Circle North and Buckeye Road. Exact Sciences plans to lease approximately 17 acres at the 35-acre Sky Harbor Center. The expansion is expected to create more than 800 jobs and create a 10-year direct revenue benefit of more than $21.5M, according to Phoenix documents. The agreements under consideration include an incentives package with a job creation reimbursement of up to…
Exceptional Healthcare is proposing a new 20KSF hospital and healthcare facility in Eloy off Sunshine Blvd. near Interstate 10. The Eloy Planning and Zoning Commission discussed the proposal recently, and Mayor Micah Powell has said he wants the plan fast-tracked so it can be operational in 12-18 months. The proposed facility would feature a specialty internal medicine hospital, emergency department and imaging suite. There would be eight-to-10 private rooms and a heliport for transporting patients who needed more immediate or extensive care. (Source)