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Jan 21 min read
Jan/Feb Issue Features Recent Bridge Construction in Arizona
To start 2025, Arizona Contractor & Community Magazine spans rivers, canyons, and freeways in the 96-page, Jan/Feb issue, exploring major...
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Nov 4, 20241 min read
Nov/Dec Issue Spotlighting Paradise Valley Released
The magazine's November/December issue delves into Paradise Valley to examine how this town almost became a farming district and,...
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Sep 4, 20241 min read
Sep/Oct Issue on Newsstands Now!
The Sep/Oct issue takes readers to vintage establishments from blue-collar bars to swank nightclubs where construction workers swapped...
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Jul 15, 20243 min read
Construction Innovations: The future is here, but are we ready?
By Brian Kassalen As the construction industry continues to boom, builders are looking for new ways to keep up with increased demand,...
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Jul 2, 20241 min read
The "Over and Under" Jul/Aug 2024 Issue Features Arizona's Bridges and Underpasses
The Jul/August issue takes readers over the Colorado River and under railroad lines, spotlighting Arizona’s bridges and underpasses....
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May 1, 20241 min read
May/June Issue Hits Newsstands Today!
The May/June issue spotlights Harold Hart's extended family and the many transfer, storage, and rigging companies that started with his...
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Mar 21, 20241 min read
ACC Magazine Spotlights Van Buren Street in the Mar/Apr Issue
The Mar/Apr 2024 issue spotlights the neon-lit path that once guided motorists to Phoenix, a city that once had the world at its...
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Feb 14, 20242 min read
How to Backfill Fast: Flowable Concrete Fill
By Luke M. Snell, P.E. and Frank Kozeliski, P.E. Concrete is often considered a building material used to construct our buildings and...
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Jan 30, 20242 min read
RECAPTURING THE SPIRIT OF PLACE: KIVA CRAFTS CENTER REHABILITATION
By Doug Sydnor Part Cherokee and Scotch-Irish, Lloyd Henri Kiva New was an artist and educator who arrived in Scottsdale in 1946. Painter...
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Jan 9, 20241 min read
ACC Visits Prescott in Jan/Feb 2024 Issue
The magazine enters 2024 with a special issue about the Valley’s favorite Mile High Retreat, Prescott, which locals pronounce as...
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Dec 29, 20232 min read
Saluting Arizona’s Builders: Karl Ronstadt
It’s fitting to spotlight Karl Ronstadt in this water-themed issue of Arizona Contractor & Community. “I always liked dam work,” Ronstadt...
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Nov 3, 20231 min read
"Sign, Sign, Everywhere Are Signs" In Just-Released Nov/Dec 2023 Issue
Signs have the power to represent places that hold great meaning in our lives, including reminding us of where we had our first dates,...
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Sep 29, 202311 min read
A Whale of a Tempe Tale: One Version of Big Surf’s Origin - Part Two
By Aaron Gilbreath When my family moved down the street from Big Surf in my fifth grade year, I became a regular, spending countless warm...
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Sep 28, 20236 min read
A Whale of a Tempe Tale: One Version of Big Surf’s Origin - Part One
By Aaron Gilbreath Before my dad died at age 81 in 2020 — before age eroded his legendary memory — he told me the full version of a story...
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Sep 15, 20232 min read
Old School Equipment: Holland Belt Loader
By Billy Horner “New Device Gobbles Earth,” screamed a headline in the Billings Gazette in 1975. The Holland loader, an earthmoving...
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Sep 8, 20231 min read
Old School Equipment: The Balderson Bowldozer
By Billy Horner The Balderson family proved that big ideas could come from little hamlets. In the 1870s, they started a blacksmith shop...
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Sep 1, 20231 min read
Sep/Oct Restaurant Issue Released!
Our recent March/April issue spotlighting vintage restaurants was such a hit that Arizona Contractor & Community magazine decided to...
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Aug 2, 20232 min read
Saluting Arizona’s Builders: Herman Chanen
“Our construction firm does things differently,” the late Herman Chanen told The Arizona Republic in 1962. “Most contractors are just...
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Jul 5, 20231 min read
ACC Magazine Releases the "L" Issue Covering the State's Logging & Lumber Industry
Arizona Contractor & Community magazine makes the case that a couple of “L” words, logging and lumber, could be added to the state’s...
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Jun 30, 20232 min read
Architect’s Perspective: Phoenix’s Carnegie Public Library: A Legacy of Learning
Doug Sydnor, FAIA The Carnegie Public Library has been an impressive edifice on the State government mall fronting Washington Street...
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