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Mar 20, 20191 min read
Reliance Trucking: Phoenix’s “Atomic” Mega-Mover
Arizona has its share of monsters lurking in the great outdoors. There’s the Gila monster, a venomous reptile with steel-trap jaws....


Mar 12, 20192 min read
Architect’s Perspective: John Stewart Marshall Hamilton, Jr., AIA: Focused on Design
The book, A Guide to the Architecture of Metro Phoenix, published in 1983 included a small office building in central Phoenix that...


Mar 8, 20192 min read
Blacktop Innovators: Sahuaro Petroleum & Asphalt
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...


Mar 5, 20191 min read
Scattered Throughout the Creative Center of Scottsdale, Mandall’s Shooting Supplies Legacy Lives On
Twenty years ago a teddy bear holding a machine gun was displayed outside of a Pepto-Bismol pink building in downtown Scottsdale....


Mar 4, 20191 min read
Architect’s Perspective: Edward B. ‘Ned’ Sawyer, Jr, AIA: Site-Specific Architecture
Architect Ned Sawyer’s design philosophy is succinct: "Doing a building that is site-specific, not just about function but has to delight...


Feb 6, 20193 min read
NAU Internships Influence Post-Grad Construction Careers
Phoenix-based McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. is tapping the talent in universities throughout the U.S. in its 3-year-old Intern...


Jan 13, 20192 min read
Digging Through the Archives: Roland Hamberg
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...


Jan 13, 20192 min read
Mid-Century Home Construction Innovator: Jack P. Stewart
The first modern commercial structure built in Arizona after World War II was the Stewart Motor Company along Central Avenue in 1947. The...


Jan 13, 20192 min read
Rodeo Drive-In Was One Wild Hayride
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...
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