Bank "Guarantees" Pigeon Housing
The "Back When" column in Arizona Contractor & Community Magazine is a rare photo that captures bank executives performing manual labor...
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- 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 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Jul 20, 2017
- 2 min
Remembering Dad, Billy J Horner
Ten years ago today we lost my dad, Billy Joe Horner, at 53 to a brain aneurysm. I remember where I was when the call came from my...
- Jul 18, 2017
- 1 min
What Actress was a Passenger on the First Jet Airliner to Land at Sky Harbor?
For Arizona Contractor & Community magazine's first centerfold, staff debated between Marilyn Monroe and Gina Lollobrigida until finally...
- Jul 18, 2017
- 1 min
The "Ghosts" of Bing, Elvis and Sky Harbor?
What do Bing Crosby, Tom Jones, Elvis Presley, R.E.M. and the Dixie Chicks have in common? They all recorded versions of "Ghost Riders in...
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