A sizable industrial building located at 7400 W. Buckeye Rd. has been sold for $30,700,000. Cohen Asset Management of Los Angeles has purchased the property from Kansas City Life Insurance Co. “This is the second building Cohen has purchased from this seller,” says Payson MacWilliam, executive vice president of Colliers International in Arizona. “Kansas City Life Insurance developed two very successful buildings in this market, the first of which was purchased by Cohen in 20

Our May/June issue of Arizona Contractor & Community Magazine is dedicated to our dear friend and co-worker, Charles “Chuck” Runbeck, who passed away recently at age 91. Chuck put his sterling reputation on the line to sign up our first advertisers, and possessed the marketing magic needed to make our long-shot vision become a reality. Thanks again, Mr. Runbeck, for passing on your wisdom, sharing your stories, and allowing us to team up with an old master for one last exciti

Charles A. “Chuck” Runbeck passed away on Monday, March 9, 2020, roughly six weeks shy of his 92nd birthday. Born in 1928 in Aberdeen, South Dakota, his parents were Swedish immigrant Anton Runbeck and Wisconsin native Nina Hooper. In 1937, his family moved to Coolidge, Arizona, where he first entered the printing industry, helping his grandfather produce the local newspaper by typesetting, folding papers, and making deliveries. His family returned to Aberdeen just as World W

Copies of our Apr/May issue are still available, but individuals will have to follow slightly different procedures to obtain them. "We'll be open for people to pick up a copy or for mail order,." Mary Anne Ramirez, owner of Books on 7th Ave (9201 N 7th Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85021 - (602) 678-4576). "We're just closed for people browsing the store." For Tucson customers, Ignite Sign Art Museum will be closed this week and possibly longer as they wait to see how the Corona virus de

The 38th issue of Arizona Contractor & Community Magazine is a whopper coming in at 96 pages. Think of it as a mid-morning break at the construction site. We’ve decided to emphasize the “community” part of our name, briefly idle the big yellow machines, and focus on how Arizonans entertained themselves during the post-World War II boom years. We’re calling it the “Pop-Culture” issue, and we lead off with The Wallace and Ladmo Show, which was TV made for kids that adults loved

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Thanks so much to the North Central News and their new editor, Colleen Sparks, for featuring an article about the just-released Sunnyslope special issue of Arizona Contractor & Community Magazine in their September issue. The eclectic community always surprises, from geodesic domes built by ASU English professors to a space-age groundbreaking for a bank to a Dutch-themed subdivision where potential home-buyers were given complimentary tulips. http://northcentralnews.net/…/spe

Arizona Contractor & Community magazine continues our eighth year of publication focusing on Castle Hot Springs, one of Arizona's oldest resorts that was recently given a second life by Mike Watts, founder of Sunstate Equipment. The issue also features a special advertising section celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Sunland Asphalt, founded by Doug DeClusin in 1979. Copies are available via the ACC website or at Books on 7th Avenue in Phoenix, or at the Ignite Sign Art Museu

Arizona Contractor & Community magazine continues our eighth year of publication with a special "Pipe Issue" in the May/June magazine. We cover flumes, pipelines, pipe manufacturing companies, and pipe projects in the Southwest. Copies are available via the ACC website or at Books on 7th Avenue in Phoenix, or at the Ignite Sign Art Museum in Tucson. #ArizonaContractorCommunitymagazine