Groundbreakings
1. Martens Development Company announced construction has started on Park 91, its 20-acre, 278KSF industrial development at the SWC of 91st Ave and Buckeye Road in Phoenix. The project is the second phase of Logic Park, a 739KSF industrial park on 44 acres.
2. Construction began at Arizona State University’s Polytechnic Campus expansion in Mesa that will add a more than 173KSF, three-story, $185M building. The new addition will include classrooms and research labs for robotics, cyber manufacturing, semiconductor manufacturing, and manufacturing systems for the energy sector. Expected completion is Nov. 2025.
3. Super Radiator Coils recently broke ground on a 150KSF ground-up design/build industrial facility in partnership with Scannell Properties, Ware Malcomb and Brinkmann Constructors. This state-of-the-art facility at the SWC of Warner and Elliot Roads in Mesa will operate as a production hub for the company.
4. Capital Square and Sunstone Two Tree began construction on Ironwood Homes at the Rose Field, a 320-house single-family rental development in Glendale. Expected completion is late summer 2025. The development will provide 102 detached single-family houses averaging 1,655SF and 218 townhouses averaging 1,257SF, both come with dedicated parking and private yards.
5. Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego along with other officials and project representatives broke ground on the affordable housing project Dahlia Village, a 126-unit complex in south Phoenix. The Ulysses Development Group raised equity funding through the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program, and an additional $9M was provided by the City of Phoenix and the State of Arizona.
6. Home Depot announced the groundbreaking of its newest retail store in Maricopa. Expected completion date is fall of 2024.
Progress Reports
7. The Arizona Department of Transportation opened the southbound part of Moores Gulch bridge at milepost 238 on the I-17. Traffic has been shifted onto the new lanes, marking a milestone in the I-17 Improvement Project. The 15-mile stretch between Black Canyon City and Sunset Point will see the widening effort continue, with general purpose lanes opening in late 2024 and the eight-mile stretch of flex lanes opening in 2025.
8. The Inner Basin Waterline repair project in Flagstaff is ahead of schedule but will be paused for the winter. The 13-mile long pipeline will resume repairs in the spring and is expected to complete after summer 2025. Nine of the 46 targeted repairs have been completed and the work is expected to stabilize the areas around the pipeline to reduce future issues.
Completions
9. Arizona Department of Transportation announced that the I-10 Broadway Curve Improvement Project has completed Phase 2, which included removing previous bridges, reconstruction of ramps, and building new bridges and walls. Phase 3 of the four phases has now begun and is estimated to complete in late summer 2024.
10. Interstate Warehousing has opened its frozen food storage and shipping center, a 273KSF facility in Lake Havasu City. There are 43 dock doors to move goods in and out of the center and 30,000 positions inside for stacking and storing frozen food product pallets. The development is situated on a 92-acre master-planned campus, which is already considering an expansion of up to 1.2MSF of space.
11. Willmeng Construction announced the completion of ECO Mesa, a seven-story, 179KSF, 102-unit apartment complex on West Pepper Place in Mesa. Habitat Metro is the developer for the community, which offers studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments. ECO Mesa was designed by CCBG Architects.
12. EoS Fitness opened its 30th facility in Arizona and its 7th in Phoenix. The new facility spans more than 42KSF in Park Central.
13. Cypress West Partners announced the completion of Ocotillo Medical Collaborative, a 22KSF medical office complex in Queen Creek. The building cost $10M and is fully occupied by five tenants, including Action Behavior Centers.