Glendale has $300,000 in federal grant funding to dish out to for small business assistance related to the coronavirus pandemic and is seeking a nonprofit or local government agency to help it administer the funds.
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A Phoenix-based developer instrumental in the Red Bull and White Claw facilities being built in the West Valley has closed on a 614-acre parcel of land in Glendale that will be the site of a $1.5 billion logistics park development.
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Scottsdale-based Caliber calls itself a “wealth development company?” OK then, so what does this mean?
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Glendale Community College, 6000 W. Olive Ave., received this recognition by supporting employee health and implemented programs to create a healthy workplace. Margo Bates, GCC wellness fitness supervisor, represented GCC at the Virtual Healthy Arizona Worksite annual event earlier this summer.
“Since employees spend nearly half of their waking hours at work, the workplace should be an important setting for promoting healthy behaviors,” Ms. Bates stated in a news release. “Effective wellness initiatives have been shown to reduce healthcare costs.”
The Healthy Arizona Worksites Program is a public health initiative offered by the Arizona Department of Health Services and the Maricopa County Department of Public Health. Its mission is to help employers successfully implement worksite wellness initiatives to improve the health of their employees.
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Investigators looking into an April 2019 fire that destroyed a 2-MW grid-connected lithium ion battery storage array owned by utility Arizona Public Service found that it was an extensive “cascading thermal runaway” and not a fire that caused the unit to explode.
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A new 418-unit multifamily residential development is being proposed for the northwest corner of Bell Road and the Loop 101 in Glendale.
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The J.J. Newberry's department store on Main Street (top photo) helped make downtown Mesa a retail magnet for shoppers back in the 1950s. Closed a half century ago, the building is now envisioned (bottom photo) as the home for Launch Pad, which offers coworking and other space.
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(Clockwise) U.S. Senator Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) discusses Opportunity Zones and revitalization efforts in Mesa, Ariz., July 14 with Anne Driscoll and Chris Schultz, founders of Launch Pad; Caliber's director of acquisitions Rodney Riley; Caliber CEO Chris Loeffler; and program moderator and Caliber executive Travis Okamoto. Mesa Mayor John Giles (not pictured) joined the event and spoke by telephone.
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Glendale City Manager Kevin Phelps, who a few weeks ago said the New Frontier is “printing money for the city,” reflected on the job growth of the area.
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Arizonans didn't have hand sanitizer in 1918. Or pedialyte. Heck, or air conditioning, the last time the state witnessed a pandemic.
But locals did slather surfaces with early versions of Lysol and Clorox, which was better than caustic benzine, a carbolic acid-based solvent that had been used up until then to slow the spread of the germs.
Aspirin offered some reliefs from fever and aches, but too much poisoned patients. And Willis Carrier's air compressor that was used to remove humidity around printing presses wouldn't be introduced until after 50 million people died worldwide during the two years of the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918-1920.
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Arizona’s largest utility has released its plan for reaching zero-carbon by 2050, including several options to balance the costs and benefits of switching from coal and natural gas to renewables, batteries, distributed energy resources and as-yet-untested technologies.
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MAP Strategies Group CEO Mi-Ai Parrish is among three women selected to participate in “Phoenix Herstories,” a photography and video project that commemorates the ratification of the 19th Amendment, presented by Arizona State University.
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Caliber CEO Chris Loeffler discusses the real estate investment companies acquisitions in downtown Mesa, Arizona, part of a larger redevelopment, Opportunity Zone initiative that includes a new campus of Arizona State University.
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Attending the groundbreaking for Park303, a major master-planned development that at build-out will accommodate up to 4.5 million square feet of Class A industrial space in Glendale, are Glendale Vice Mayor Ray Malnar; Glendale Councilmember Joyce Clark; Sintra Hoffman, president and CEO of WESTMARC; Glendale Mayor Jerry Weiers; Paul Hughes, executive vice president of business development for the Arizona Commerce Authority; David Krumwiede, executive vice president of Lincoln Property Company; and Glendale Councilmember Bart Turner.
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One of the largest “free trade” zone designations in Arizona has been issued for a distribution center in Chandler operated by Phoenix-based Avnet, a technology solutions company with millions of customers worldwide.
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Congressional legislators from both sides of the aisle came together last year to create an important economic development tool – Opportunity Zone Funds.
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