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    Back When: Bully for Roosevelt Dam!
    • 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 o...
    Back When: H & J Construction's Ranger
    • 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 "R...
    Architect’s Perspective: HonorHealth John C. Lincoln Medical Center: A Healthy and Wellbeing Legacy
    • 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 t...
    All in the Family: Building with Preach Supply
    • 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 deca...
    Sunnyslope’s Dutch Village “Electrifies” Phoenix
    • 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 ...
    Bank "Guarantees" Pigeon Housing
    • 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 u...
    North Central News Features Article on ACC "Sunnyslope" Special Issue
    • 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 Sunnyslop...
    ACC Releases Second Sunnyslope Special Issue
    • 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 business...
    New Storage Space Has a Fast, Discounted Past
    • 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 wil...
    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...
    Personal Protective Equipment for Women Created by Skanska
    • May 14, 2019
    • 1 min

    Personal Protective Equipment for Women Created by Skanska

    In honor on National Construction Safety Week, Skanska, one of the world’s leading construction and development firms, has partnered with...
    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...
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