Local Projects

Awards & Accolades  1. Engineering News-Record (ENR) Southwest selected Valley Metro’s Gilbert Road Light Rail extension as the best project in its highway/bridges category. Stacy and Witbeck was the design firm and Sundt Construction was the general contractor on the project.  Groundbreakings  2. The 320-acre Legacy Sports …

Awards & Accolades  1. Avondale’s Festival Fields Park, which recently underwent a $19M expansion and renovation, was named Outstanding Facility of the Year by the Arizona Parks and Recreation Association.  2. The AZ Water Association has recognized EPCOR USA with its 2020 Water Project …

Awards & Accolades  1. Three of the state’s major freeway and highway projects have earned regional awards from The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. These projects will now be considered for selection as one of …

Awards & Accolades  1. ENR’s regional Excellence in Safety Award is now in its eighth year and is honoring three projects for their outstanding safety records and jobsite procedures. The Arizona project that won the Excellence in safety, Award of …

Source: Arizona Department of Transportation  The Arizona Department of Transportation has been granted environmental approval to continue moving forward with plans to improve two key corridors in the Tucson area.  ADOT issued a Finding of No Significant Impact after completing …

Progress Reports  1. Construction on La Quinta continues at John Wayne Parkway/Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard next to Copper Sky. The four-story building will have 89 rooms and occupy 56KSF. It is expected to employ 20.   2. The …

Groundbreakings  1. Construction is underway on the three-story Chandler Medical Plaza office building at 1125 S. Alma School Road in Chandler. The 65KSF medical office property is 38 percent preleased.  2. The Downtown Links Phase III project in Tucson is expected to begin construction …

Groundbreakings  1. Bearizona broke ground on an all-new 40KSF habitat called The Grizzly Encounter. The nearly $1M addition will offer a top-of-the-line grizzly bear habitat and multiple viewing experiences for guests upon completion in Spring 2021.  2. Landsea Homes announced it has …

Groundbreakings  1. Nikola Corporation is one step closer to bringing a 1MSF manufacturing facility to Coolidge, following an official groundbreaking ceremony on its approximate 430-acre parcel. The first phase of construction is scheduled for completion in late 2021, with …

Groundbreakings  1. The Douglas Allred Company recently broke ground on two additional office buildings at their Park Place Development on Price Corridor. Both three-story buildings will be 150KSF and located on the NEC of Price and Willis roads. The architect is Balmer Architectural …

Groundbreakings  1. Builderz Warehouse has broken ground on a new $5M, 40KSF facility at 3156 E. Roeser Road, Phoenix, that will more than quadruple the size of the company’s current facility. Sun State Builders is both the architect and general contractor. The project broke ground on July 1st and …

Groundbreakings  1. Pacific Hospitality Group and Mortenson recently broke ground on a 238-room, 8-story Hyatt Place hotel in downtown Phoenix. The project is expected to be completed in September 2021. Allen+Philp Partners is the architect.  2. FatCats Entertainment has started construction on their new ground up, 61KSF family …

Groundbreakings  1. Concord General Contracting recently broke ground on the new 70KSF campus renovation for the Tempe Academy of International Studies. This project will be performed in multiple phases and it will include two new buildings. Concord General Contracting and DLR Group are …

Groundbreakings  1. Pinal County has broken ground on their new 52KSF, five-story Attorney’s Office Building. This new facility will consolidate all County Attorney’s and their staff under one roof that are currently located in multiple properties around the county. …

Awards & Accolades  1. Sundt Construction, Inc. and its joint venture partner Kiewit continue to earn awards for their work on the Ina Road Traffic Interchange. The two and a half year project was recently awarded the 2020 “Public Works …

Awards & Accolades  1. Achen-Gardner Construction’s Salt River Siphon Repair Design-Build project for Central Arizona Project (CAP) and Beardsley WRF Solids Pipeline Rehabilitation project for the City of Peoria has been awarded the 2020 Public Works Project of the Year award in the category of Environment from APWA.  …

Groundbreakings  1. To make way for improvements to State Route 189 (Mariposa Road) in Nogales, the 3.75-mile road that connects the international border with Interstate 19, crews have been clearing brush from the path of the first of …

Progress Reports  1. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, George Oliver is making thoughtful changes to build tenant confidence and position its latest redevelopment project, The Alexander, now under construction in downtown Chandler, as a premier “new normal” work environment. New COVID-19-related …

Awards & Accolades  1. The Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) announced that Stage 2 of Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport Sky Train (PHX Sky Train®) is the recent recipient of an Envision Gold Award for sustainability. This is the airport’s first …

Awards & Accolades  1. Achen-Gardner Construction’s Beardsley WRF Solids Pipeline Rehabilitation project for the City of Peoria and Salt River Siphon Repair Design-Build project for Central Arizona Project have both been selected as the AZ Water Association’s 2020 Wastewater System Project of the Year and Water System …

Awards & Accolades  1. High Street Residential (HSR), the residential subsidiary of Trammell Crow Company, and MetLife Investment Management announced that the Astor at Osborn, a 191-unit apartment building at 7th Avenue and Osborn Road in Phoenix, was awarded LEED Gold certification.   Groundbreakings  2. Construction of …

Groundbreakings  1. Sundt Construction, Inc., and its joint venture partner DPR Construction recently started tenant improvements at the Biomedical Sciences Partnership Building on the University of Arizona Biomedical Campus in Phoenix. The improvements, a $20M construction manager at-risk project, includes 48KSF of improvements on the third and …

Awards & Accolades  1. AZRE Magazine has announced the winning projects for the 2020 Real Estate Development (RED) Awards via a virtual ceremony. AZRE magazine received a record number of nominations for the RED Awards this year, and 17 …