Teen flapper Doris Bailey, 17, had a burst appendix. She nearly died in 1927, in those dangerous days before antibiotics, and stayed in...

Arizona Contractor & Community magazine continues our eighth year of publication focusing on Castle Hot Springs, one of Arizona's oldest...

Infill development is currently experiencing a renaissance in the Valley and in metropolitan areas across the U.S. There is no single...

When thinking of pollution, we may picture a crowded freeway or the billowing exhaust cloud of a factory, but commercial and residential...

When Arizona Contractor & Community magazine hosted a retirement party for Chuck Runbeck in 2018, Bryant Shaw came by to wish Chuck all...

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What do Marilyn Monroe and Sandra Day O'Connor have in common? Find out in the "Back When" feature of the May/June issue of Arizona...

Arizona Contractor & Community magazine continues our eighth year of publication with a special "Pipe Issue" in the May/June magazine. We...

For decades I’ve been among the many motorists driving by the semi trucking school, located at the I-10 and I-17 intersection, known to...

Arizona has its share of monsters lurking in the great outdoors. There’s the Gila monster, a venomous reptile with steel-trap jaws....

The book, A Guide to the Architecture of Metro Phoenix, published in 1983 included a small office building in central Phoenix that...

Bill Brake calls his years at Sahuaro Petroleum & Asphalt some of the best of his life. He started as a salesman, and then later became...

Twenty years ago a teddy bear holding a machine gun was displayed outside of a Pepto-Bismol pink building in downtown Scottsdale....

Architect Ned Sawyer’s design philosophy is succinct: "Doing a building that is site-specific, not just about function but has to delight...

Phoenix-based McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. is tapping the talent in universities throughout the U.S. in its 3-year-old Intern...

Roland Hamburg was working in the Mesabi Iron Range in Minnesota, when he moved to Arizona at age 21 to work on Glen Canyon Dam on the...

The first modern commercial structure built in Arizona after World War II was the Stewart Motor Company along Central Avenue in 1947. The...

The Rodeo Drive-In opened in 1953 in an industrial area of Phoenix near 12th Street and Buckeye Road. It was the Valley’s seventh...