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Nov 30, 2020
3 min

Wiring Tucson for 58 Years: Southern Arizona Electric

By Cassie Anderson Walter Novak started a Tucson company with his contractor’s license, two partners, and a green and black pickup truck in 1962. Southern Arizona Electric, Inc. began on a shoestring budget, using his life-savings of $1,500. But Walter did have an ace in the hole: an unforgettable advertising pitch: “You Phone Us – We’ll Wire You.” Within a year, Walter had bought out his partners, Hank Rave and Bob Conklin, and Southern Arizona Electric became a family busin

Nov 27, 2020
2 min

Phoenix’s Edison-East Lake community is Slated for Revitalization in 2021

By Raven Payne In July 2018, the city of Phoenix was awarded a $30 million choice neighborhoods grant from the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development. The grant along with $190 million leverage is what is allowing the transformation of this community. Housing Director, Cindy Stotler presented this housing development at a Phoenix city council meeting last week. “Located approximately one mile east of downtown, this community contains the largest concentration of publ

Nov 25, 2020
2 min

Diversified Partners Announces Major Development at Val Vista and Mercy in Gilbert

Diversified Partners announces a major 11-acre development at Val Vista Drive and Mercy Road in Gilbert, Ariz. The project will include hotel, office, and retail mixed-use. The development is directly south of Dignity’s Mercy Gilbert Hospital and lies in the heart of the Mercy Gilbert medical district. Diversified Partners has teamed up with Andy Jackson to co-develop the property. Diversified Partners has a unique vision for the property that includes two-story retail/restau

Nov 24, 2020
2 min

Major Environmental Cleanup Along Salt River Helps New Jobs Center Site

Neighbors, community leaders, city leaders, and business leaders met with Merit Partners, Arizona’s top industrial real estate developer, on Saturday, November 21st to discuss a new 83-acre jobs center that could employ as many as 1,000 people. Merit Partners is transforming an old cement plant into a new industrial park near 7th Avenue and Elwood Street. Part of that process involves an $11 million environmental cleanup which began in August. As that process continues and Me

Nov 23, 2020
3 min

San Xavier: The Firm That Helped Fuel Tucson’s Mid-Century Boom

By Douglas Towne The name “San Xavier” is synonymous with the iconic “White Dove of the Desert,” the oldest European structure in Arizona. The Mission San Xavier del Bac, located about 10 miles south of Downtown Tucson along the Santa Cruz River, was completed by 1797. The internationally-known white-stucco Moorish structure is renowned for its Easter torch-light parade by Tohono O’odham and Yaqui tribal members. In the Arizona construction industry, San Xavier is also the na

Nov 20, 2020
2 min

Tucson Buzzes about Valencia Road Extension

It was almost as if KE&G Construction had to have a conversation about “the birds and the bees” during their recent work on the Valencia Road extension from Houghton Road east to Old Spanish Trail. “Before the start of the project, we discovered a large presence of bees in the new roadway corridor,” says Jim Olson, KE&G transportation division manager. “Further investigation revealed that the bees were privately owned and bred for experimentation and observation. They were a

Nov 19, 2020
2 min

McCarthy’s Water Group Promotes 3 to Further Strengthen Clean Water in Communities

McCarthy Building Companies is pleased to announce the promotion of three key personnel within the firm’s Water Group, including Jake Stones, Pat Payne, and Sagrado Sparks. With combined water treatment construction expertise and experience spanning three decades, these promotions further enhance McCarthy’s Water Group's abilities to provide clean water to communities throughout the Western United States. McCarthy has a rich history of success in understanding wastewater and

Nov 18, 2020
5 min

Top Tips for Preventing ACH Credit Fraud

By Josh Cyphers Forced to work from home during COVID-19, accounts payable departments have accelerated plans to move away from paper checks and pay more of their suppliers by ACH. That, in turn, accelerated another trend: fraud. Through social engineering, fraud attacks on ACH credits are most commonly known as Business Email Compromises or BECs. According to the 2020 AFP Payments and Fraud Control Survey Report, for the first time, in 2019, BEC schemes were the most common

Nov 17, 2020
1 min

Gladden Farms Blossoms Thanks to Borderland Construction

Multitasking is common in today’s society, but rarely to the extent to that performed by Borderland Construction at the Gladden Farms master-planned community in Marana, located northwest of Tucson. “The toughest part of the job is the schedule,” Steve Shepherd, company president and project manager, says. “This project will require as many as five separate crews all working at the same time on everything from earthwork to underground utilities to paving to meet the overall p

Nov 16, 2020
3 min

Digging Through the Archives – New Pueblo’s I-19 Construction

By William Horner When the conversation turns to “Tucson construction,” there’s one company that is inevitably discussed: Karl Ronstadt’s and Howard King’s New Pueblo Constructors. New Pueblo advertised itself as “a company with young management and with old ties to the region it serves,” when it began in 1959. The firm was active until the mid-1990s and left its footprint across the Southwest. If you’ve ever stopped for dinner in Green Valley, flown into Albuquerque, fished

Nov 13, 2020
3 min

City Electric Supply Opens Second Store in Gilbert, 13th in Valley

City Electric Supply (CES) https://www.cityelectricsupply.com/aboutus is thrilled to announce the opening of its second branch in Gilbert, the thirteenth location in the Phoenix area. And who is running it? Someone with experience on both sides of the counter, Branch Manager Steven Bauer. “I can ask electricians what they’re doing or how they’re using a part, and I can tell them what they need,” said Bauer. “Usually, electricians get into a certain field, and they stick to i

Nov 12, 2020
3 min

Construction Without the Paperwork

By Jesse Wood What should construction companies know about the trend toward paperless? Construction companies need to know that plateauing growth is pushing nearly every industry to paperless environments. Efficient business runs on paperwork. When it comes to accounting/billing, HR, legal, and other back-office functions, paperwork is part of nearly everything they do. Construction companies that deal with hundreds of different forms, whether they be project bids, permits,

Nov 11, 2020
2 min

JOHNSON CARLIER EXPANDS TEAM & WELCOMES STRATEGIC MARKETING MANAGER

Johnson Carlier, an Arizona-based independently managed general contractor, recently hired Janelle Shroyer to its roster of talented employees. In her position, Shroyer will be responsible for marketing initiatives including brand awareness, and coordination of planning, developing and producing competitive proposals, and more. “Janelle brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise in the construction industry to help us implement process-driven strategies that are both effectiv

Nov 10, 2020
1 min

WSM Online Vehicle & Equipment Auction

You're Invited to our Online-Only Vehicles & Equipment Auction! Bidding Ends: Saturday, November 14th Visit us online at wsmauctioneers.com Start Bidding Now Invoices will be emailed to the successful bidders Purchase pick up starts Monday, November 16th 7:00 AM We make the online bidding process easy by offering two platforms – ProxiBid and EquipmentFacts Our mailing address is: WSM Auctioneers 1616 S 67th Ave Phoenix, AZ 85043-7700 #WSMAuctioneers

Nov 9, 2020
1 min

ACC Magazine Spotlights Tucson in Nov/Dec Issue

Arizona Contractor & Community magazine returns to Tucson for the first time since our Winter 2013 issue to focus on the charms of the Old Pueblo. In this 80-page issue, we dig into the history of contractors San Xavier and New Pueblo Constructors, and mix in stories on paint dealers, Ignite Sign Art Museum, architect Bernard Friedman, and preservation efforts for Broadway’s “Sunshine Mile,” and the Ball-Paylore House. For those who love a good mystery, we offer two whoppers!

Nov 6, 2020
3 min

NEW POLL: AMERICANS OVERWHELMINGLY PREFER TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE OVER MODERN FOR FEDERAL BUILDING

Nearly three-quarters of Americans (72%) – including majorities across political, racial/ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic lines – prefer traditional architecture for U.S. courthouses and federal office buildings, according to a new poll of over 2,000 U.S. adults conducted online by The Harris Poll on behalf of National Civic Art Society. These findings come in light of the possibility of a Trump administration Executive Order that would re-orient federal architecture in a tr

Nov 5, 2020
3 min

McCarthy Expands Firm’s Mission Critical Projects Group with the Addition of Four New Team Members

McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. announces four additions to the firm’s Mission Critical projects group, which is focused on the construction of data centers, operations and control centers, telecom facilities as well as renovations and upgrades to infrastructure systems. The new team members, who are based in the firm’s Phoenix office, include Ryan Ferguson, Mike Clements, Pep Arballo and David Mazzarelli. Together, the new members bring nearly a century of construction ind

Nov 4, 2020
3 min

Apprentice High Schools of America Will Launch Online or In-Person

Last Labor Day (2019), on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the Rose Charter Academies of Tucson, the ROSE Management Group announced the formation of a separate Apprentice High Schools of America (AHSA) initiative. While the original vision was to see the first charter high schools using the AHSA methodologies, facilities design, and curriculum launch by THIS Labor Day (2020), the unexpected Corona-19 virus upended that timetable. Prior to the pandemic, AHSA management

Nov 3, 2020
2 min

Well-known valley broker turns developer, lands medical office for Banner in Chandler

Andy Ogan, a 20-year brokerage veteran who has risen through the ranks of the commercial real estate industry recently launched Unbound Development, a newly formed development company centered around industrial, healthcare, office and retail build-to-suit opportunities in Arizona. Ogan’s new firm has already gained traction with his first project, ALMA 202, by signing long term leases on a build-to-suit basis with Banner Health for 66,000 square-feet and EOS Fitness for 38,00

Nov 2, 2020
2 min

Stantec completes volunteer drainage project for town of Taylor, Arizona

Stantec, a global design, engineering, and consulting firm recently completed a comprehensive drainage project for the town of Taylor, Arizona’s Taylor Rodeo Grounds in partnership with Engineers Without Borders USA (EWB-USA). Located in Navajo County, the economy of Taylor is, in part, supported by its rodeo grounds, which do not currently have proper drainage. In recent years when storms have occurred, the arena has been subject to excessive flooding. Once the rainfall has

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Wiring Tucson for 58 Years: Southern Arizona Electric

Phoenix’s Edison-East Lake community is Slated for Revitalization in 2021

Diversified Partners Announces Major Development at Val Vista and Mercy in Gilbert

Major Environmental Cleanup Along Salt River Helps New Jobs Center Site

San Xavier: The Firm That Helped Fuel Tucson’s Mid-Century Boom

Tucson Buzzes about Valencia Road Extension

McCarthy’s Water Group Promotes 3 to Further Strengthen Clean Water in Communities

Top Tips for Preventing ACH Credit Fraud

Gladden Farms Blossoms Thanks to Borderland Construction

Digging Through the Archives – New Pueblo’s I-19 Construction

City Electric Supply Opens Second Store in Gilbert, 13th in Valley

Construction Without the Paperwork

JOHNSON CARLIER EXPANDS TEAM & WELCOMES STRATEGIC MARKETING MANAGER

WSM Online Vehicle & Equipment Auction

ACC Magazine Spotlights Tucson in Nov/Dec Issue

NEW POLL: AMERICANS OVERWHELMINGLY PREFER TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE OVER MODERN FOR FEDERAL BUILDING

McCarthy Expands Firm’s Mission Critical Projects Group with the Addition of Four New Team Members

Apprentice High Schools of America Will Launch Online or In-Person

Well-known valley broker turns developer, lands medical office for Banner in Chandler

Stantec completes volunteer drainage project for town of Taylor, Arizona