Digging Through the Archives: The Salt River’s Bridge of Pipes
Mother Nature caused a massive traffic jam in the Valley in the spring of 1965. For the first time in 24 years, heavy winter snowfall in...
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- Feb 3, 2020
- 1 min
ACC Honors Ofus Bingham, Who Died in Nov. 2019
To read the rest of this issue, you are invited to purchase the digital issue here. This article originally appeared in the Arizona...
- Jan 31, 2020
- 1 min
Back When: Bully for Roosevelt Dam!
Theodore Roosevelt was a busy man when he arrived in Phoenix in 1911 to dedicate the dam named after him. He had championed the passage...
- Jan 15, 2020
- 1 min
Christia Gibbons, ACC's ASU Cronkite School Liaison, Retires
#ASUWalterCronkiteSchoolofJouranlism #ChristiaGibbons #KatieMayer
- Jan 14, 2020
- 1 min
ACC Starts 2020 With the Salt River Issue
ACC magazine begins our ninth year of publication with a special issue focused on the lifeblood of the Valley: The Salt River. We explore...
- Jan 6, 2020
- 1 min
Building on the Past 1961: Scottsdale’s Executive House Hotel
Scottsdale went “hi-fi” in 1961 when the Executive House Arizonian opened in the “West’s Most Western Town.” The $3 million, 210-room...
- Dec 30, 2019
- 3 min
The Riskas of H & J Construction: Innovators in Building
One of the Valley’s most innovative mid-century construction companies was started in 1949 on a shoestring budget by brothers, Harry and...
- Dec 24, 2019
- 1 min
Holiday Greetings from ACC Magazine
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- Dec 3, 2019
- 1 min
Back When: H & J Construction's Ranger
Before Wayne Newton was "Mr. Las Vegas," he was a budding teenage star in Phoenix. He performed with his brother, Jerry Newton, as the...
- Nov 13, 2019
- 3 min
Tenec Coatings Offers Expertise in Material Selection, Environmental Performance
Some would say the entrepreneurial journey for Daniel and Leane Owen has come full circle. They say they’re just getting started. Earlier...
- Nov 4, 2019
- 1 min
Nov/Dec ACC Magazine Featuring H & J Construction Now Available
Who would have thought a print publication launched in 2012 would still be flourishing 8 years later? Arizona Contractor & Community...
- Oct 18, 2019
- 2 min
Architect’s Perspective: HonorHealth John C. Lincoln Medical Center: A Healthy and Wellbeing Legacy
The Desert Mission has been helping Sunnyslope families address their health and social needs for more than nine decades. Now a part of...
- Oct 16, 2019
- 2 min
All in the Family: Building with Preach Supply
There’s nothing quite like working with family. At Preach Building Supply, it’s been a vital ingredient to a successful business for...
- Oct 14, 2019
- 2 min
Sunnyslope’s Dutch Village “Electrifies” Phoenix
“It’s Tulip Time at Dutch Village” sounds like a promotion for a plant nursery, not a Phoenix housing tract. But the subdivision located...
- Sep 24, 2019
- 1 min
Bank "Guarantees" Pigeon Housing
The "Back When" column in Arizona Contractor & Community Magazine is a rare photo that captures bank executives performing manual labor...
- Sep 6, 2019
- 1 min
North Central News Features Article on ACC "Sunnyslope" Special Issue
Thanks so much to the North Central News and their new editor, Colleen Sparks, for featuring an article about the just-released...
- Sep 3, 2019
- 1 min
ACC Releases Second Sunnyslope Special Issue
The first Sunnyslope special issue (Fall 2017) of Arizona Contractor & Community Magazine focused on the community’s more exotic...
- Jul 23, 2019
- 3 min
Retrofitting Sustainability Part 2: The Local Perspective
In last month’s installment of this two-part series, we discussed retrofitting sustainable systems into historic and existing buildings....
- Jul 19, 2019
- 2 min
New Storage Space Has a Fast, Discounted Past
"When renovating an existing facility, especially an older one, everyone knows there will be some unexpected existing conditions that...
- 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...
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