Awards & Accolades
1. Arizona Commerce Authority won an Economic Development Organization Award for its Future48 Workforce Accelerator training center. The award is to recognize EDO efforts in delivering capital investment, job creation, quality of life and other factors.
2. Dan Maher with GLHN Architects & Engineers, Inc. completed the Design-Build Institute of America’s certifications and has become a nationally certified Design-Build Professional.
3. ConnectCRE held the 2024 Next Generation Awards, presenting awards to 100+ winners across several regions. The Phoenix & Southwest winners include:
- Davis Bocks – CapMatrix,
- Chris Rogers – DAUM Commercial,
- Zack House – Marcus & Millichap,
- Rita Mouchi – Gensler,
- Zach Olivet – LevRose Commercial Real Estate,
- Josh Pons – Newmark
- Matthew Giamportone – Regions Bank – Real Estate Capital Markets,
- Taylor Thornburgh – BCLP,
- Johannah Go – CBRE, and
- Carson Krause – ABI Commercial Capital.
4. Gorman & Company is celebrating 40 years of affordable housing leadership and innovation. Gorman & Company has moved to 7th place nationwide in Affordable Housing Finance Magazine’s Developers Poll.
Promotions
5. Clune Construction promoted Kevin Donahue to VP from his previous position of Senior Project Manager.
6. Bridget Schwartz-Manock was promoted to Assistant General Manager of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs at Central Arizona Project. Prior to her promotion, she was Director of Public Affairs.
7. DLR Group has promoted twelve of its members. These include:
- Carmen Wyckoff was promoted to Senior Principal;
- Peter Rutti to Managing Principal;
- Mark Forman and Liz Heck to Principal;
- Shane Chism, Sheila Cobb, Megan DiBella, Christopher Hart, Jim Lamb, Kate McGoldrick and Hailey Muller to Senior Associate;
- Logan Burbank, Amara Cato, Christian Holguin, Patrick Tehaney and Isheanesu Tendayi to Associate.
New Hires
8. Tony Machabee has been hired at Nunez Self Storage Group, a brokerage team under the NAI Global brand, as Senior Director. He previously was an associate at Cushman & Wakefield.
9. VanTrust Real Estate, LLC has hired Derek Flottum as Senior Director of Development.
Company News
10. Avision Young and Flex Index announced a partnership between the two companies to expand the metrics for investments and policy decisions compared to peers. The collective data allows metrics to be sorted by industry, geography, company size and hybrid work requirements.