The end of Prohibition in 1933 allowed liquor, wine, and beer to be legally available in Arizona for the first time in 18 years....

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Arizona Contractor & Community Magazine has just released the July/August issue, which takes a look at farming and construction in the...

The Silver Dollar Drive-In Theatre lived up to its name: the snack bar had silver dollars embedded in the floor and admission was $1 per...

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...

Before Wayne Newton was "Mr. Las Vegas," he was a budding teenage star in Phoenix. He performed with his brother, Jerry Newton, as the...

The Desert Mission has been helping Sunnyslope families address their health and social needs for more than nine decades. Now a part of...

There’s nothing quite like working with family. At Preach Building Supply, it’s been a vital ingredient to a successful business for...

“It’s Tulip Time at Dutch Village” sounds like a promotion for a plant nursery, not a Phoenix housing tract. But the subdivision located...

The "Back When" column in Arizona Contractor & Community Magazine is a rare photo that captures bank executives performing manual labor...

Thanks so much to the North Central News and their new editor, Colleen Sparks, for featuring an article about the just-released...

The first Sunnyslope special issue (Fall 2017) of Arizona Contractor & Community Magazine focused on the community’s more exotic...

"When renovating an existing facility, especially an older one, everyone knows there will be some unexpected existing conditions that...

Madison Park Middle School in Phoenix has piloted an afterschool program called CACTUS — careers in architecture and construction...

Teen flapper Doris Bailey, 17, had a burst appendix. She nearly died in 1927, in those dangerous days before antibiotics, and stayed in...

Arizona Contractor & Community magazine continues our eighth year of publication focusing on Castle Hot Springs, one of Arizona's oldest...

Infill development is currently experiencing a renaissance in the Valley and in metropolitan areas across the U.S. There is no single...

When thinking of pollution, we may picture a crowded freeway or the billowing exhaust cloud of a factory, but commercial and residential...

When Arizona Contractor & Community magazine hosted a retirement party for Chuck Runbeck in 2018, Bryant Shaw came by to wish Chuck all...

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