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    Budding CACTUS Program Teaches Kids about Construction Careers
    • Jul 10, 2019
    • 2 min

    Budding CACTUS Program Teaches Kids about Construction Careers

    Madison Park Middle School in Phoenix has piloted an afterschool program called CACTUS — careers in architecture and construction uplifti...
    Derailed Success: The Hidden Legacy of Western Architect Luther R. Bailey
    • Jul 5, 2019
    • 3 min

    Derailed Success: The Hidden Legacy of Western Architect Luther R. Bailey

    Teen flapper Doris Bailey, 17, had a burst appendix. She nearly died in 1927, in those dangerous days before antibiotics, and stayed in t...
    Arizona Contractor & Community Spotlights Sunstate Equipment Founder Mike Watts Reopening of His
    • Jul 3, 2019
    • 1 min

    Arizona Contractor & Community Spotlights Sunstate Equipment Founder Mike Watts Reopening of His

    Arizona Contractor & Community magazine continues our eighth year of publication focusing on Castle Hot Springs, one of Arizona's oldest ...
    What’s Trending in Infill Development?
    • Jun 20, 2019
    • 2 min

    What’s Trending in Infill Development?

    Infill development is currently experiencing a renaissance in the Valley and in metropolitan areas across the U.S. There is no single cau...
    Retrofitting Sustainability Into Existing Buildings
    • Jun 13, 2019
    • 4 min

    Retrofitting Sustainability Into Existing Buildings

    When thinking of pollution, we may picture a crowded freeway or the billowing exhaust cloud of a factory, but commercial and residential ...
    Digging Through the Archives:  Bryant Shaw
    • Jun 3, 2019
    • 2 min

    Digging Through the Archives: Bryant Shaw

    When Arizona Contractor & Community magazine hosted a retirement party for Chuck Runbeck in 2018, Bryant Shaw came by to wish Chuck all t...
    ACC Magazine is Featured in Today's Arizona Republic
    • May 17, 2019
    • 1 min

    ACC Magazine is Featured in Today's Arizona Republic

    #DonnaReiner #ArizonaRepublic
    What's the Phoenix link between Marilyn Monroe and Sandra Day O'Connor?
    • May 7, 2019
    • 1 min

    What's the Phoenix link between Marilyn Monroe and Sandra Day O'Connor?

    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 Contr...
    Arizona Contractor & Community Publishes a Special "Pipe Issue" in the May/June Magazi
    • May 6, 2019
    • 1 min

    Arizona Contractor & Community Publishes a Special "Pipe Issue" in the May/June Magazi

    Arizona Contractor & Community magazine continues our eighth year of publication with a special "Pipe Issue" in the May/June magazine. We...
    Jay McCormick “Mack” Sheesley's Truck Museum
    • Mar 27, 2019
    • 1 min

    Jay McCormick “Mack” Sheesley's Truck Museum

    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 l...
    Reliance Trucking: Phoenix’s “Atomic” Mega-Mover
    • Mar 20, 2019
    • 1 min

    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. There...
    Architect’s Perspective: John Stewart Marshall Hamilton, Jr., AIA: Focused on Design
    • Mar 12, 2019
    • 2 min

    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 resona...
    Blacktop Innovators: Sahuaro Petroleum & Asphalt
    • Mar 8, 2019
    • 2 min

    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 p...
    Scattered Throughout the Creative Center of Scottsdale, Mandall’s Shooting Supplies Legacy Lives On
    • Mar 5, 2019
    • 1 min

    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. Mandall...
    Architect’s Perspective: Edward B. ‘Ned’ Sawyer, Jr, AIA: Site-Specific Architecture
    • Mar 5, 2019
    • 1 min

    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...
    NAU Internships Influence Post-Grad Construction Careers
    • Feb 7, 2019
    • 3 min

    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 Advant...
    Digging Through the Archives:  
Roland Hamberg
    • Jan 13, 2019
    • 2 min

    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 Co...
    Mid-Century Home Construction Innovator: 
Jack P. Stewart
    • Jan 13, 2019
    • 2 min

    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...
    Rodeo Drive-In Was One Wild Hayride
    • Jan 13, 2019
    • 2 min

    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 drive-i...
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