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Tuesday Volume 3 Issue 100 Issue Date: February 12, 2013 CONNECTING THE LOCAL BUILDING INDUSTRY San Marcos Resort’s New Owner Plans Renovation of Property By Michelle Interwest Capital, which purchased The hotel, which will remain a Crowne $23.9M loan. San Marcos Capital filed Mitchell for The Chandler’s historical Crowne Plaza Plaza, will not close during renovation for bankruptcy in March 2011. San Marcos Resort Hotel on January and all existing reservations will Arizona Republic This $11M sale to Interwest Capital is 28, plans a top-to-bottom renovation, be honored, said Ashleigh Mason, about 67 percent of what Guaranty including revamping guest rooms director of development with GF Bank and Trust Company paid in and meeting spaces and improving Management. November 2011 to foreclose the the golf course and grounds, said The San Marcos, which opened in property in a trustee sale. Karl Coleman, president of Interwest 1913, has 250 rooms and 35K square Capital. The Interwest deal comes more than feet of meeting space. President two years after the resort was taken “Our goal is to have that finished Herbert Hoover, dancer-actor Fred over by the receiver, although those this year so we can celebrate the Astaire and other celebrities have connected to the property had said centennial of the hotel,” Coleman stayed there. publicly that interested buyers were said. The future of the hotel, at Arizona moving forward on the property. The remodeling will not detract from Avenue and Chandler Boulevard, has Read more at AZCentral. Note: the historic designation of the hotel, been uncertain since October 2010, AZCentral is now premium content. he said. when it was taken over by a court- Readers are permitted 20 free article appointed receiver when San Marcos views per month. Capital Partners defaulted on a AZBEX Note: The renovation, for which a cost is not being released, will completely remodel all public and meeting spaces, and upgrade all guest rooms and casitas. Interwest, the property owner, is in negotiations with a select list of architects and contractors and expects to announce the selected firms within a matter of weeks. Project Solicitations in this Issue: 23 Design/Consultants 39 Horizontal 24 Commercial 21 Products & Equipment 8 Development Opps 30 Utilities 33 Maintenance 12 Permits Issued The Arizona Builder’s Exchange is a compilation of information gathered from the public domain. Individual articles are protected by their respective copyright. The publication as a whole is copyright protected to the Arizona Builder’s Exchange. To forward or share the information with others outside of your firm is a violation of that copyright, punishable by law. 2 Volume 3, Issue 100 Table of Contents Articles 5 3 Maricopa Business Incubator Hailed As Boon for The City 4 Business Investment Needed for Navajo Nation’s Future 5 Light Rail Spurs Fourth Mesa Housing Proposal 6 1M SF Getting Underway at Surprise Skyway Business Park 6 Estrella Falls to Open by 2016 7 Tucson, Rio Nuevo Kiss and Make Up After 2-Year Spat 8 Peoria Park’s Solar-Power Lights Fail 6 9 Going Places? Post Bust is Inflection Point for Phoenix 9 Somerton Redevelopment Plan Adopted 10 Tucson Plan Keeps Major Bus Hub Downtown 11 ASU Moves Baseball Program to Phoenix Municipal Stadium 11 Yuma City Council Endorses Tribal Health Center 12 Federal Government Looking Beyond LEED 13 Mission Accomplished for Rally Point Alpha 13 First Solar Now Second in Global Solar Production 11 13 Two Yuma Businesses Receive Economic Development Grants 14 Luring Firms Across State Lines 15 Phoenix-area housing: Today’s land sales, tomorrow’s growth 18 E-Commerce Plays Major Role in Industrial Sector Growth Sections 12 Classifieds 13 16 Permits Issued 17 Commercial Real Estate News 19 Industry Events Project Opportunities 22 Planning/Design/Inspection/Consultant 25 Development Opportunities 26 Horizontal 18 31 Utilities 34 Commercial 38 Maintenance & Alterations 40 Products & Equipment 42 Pre-Solicitations 3 Tuesday, February 12, 2013 Maricopa Business Incubator Advances, Meet the Hailed As Boon for The City Team! By Shelley Maricopa is finalizing the launch of a business incubator, among several programs on its agenda to bring Gillespie for the Publisher opportunities and services to the community. Rebekah Morris - Arizona Republic Gotye The ripple effect of the city moving forward on the projects 480-709-4190 could be a loss of business for neighboring Ahwatukee, [email protected] Tempe and Chandler, where Maricopa residents drive to get what they can’t get nearby. Rachel Kettenhofen - Editor Micah Miranda, Maricopa director of economic Fun development, says that the business incubator would be 480-227-2620 “an in-depth program designed to foster and encourage entrepreneurial thinking with support services and [email protected] everything a business needs in its life cycle.” Eric Jay Toll - Senior Correspondent Maricopa, a sleepy town of 1,040 in the 2000 U.S. Census, The Black Keys has exploded by 4,269 percent to an estimated population of 44,396 in 2011 by the Census Bureau. Along the way, 602-617-3797 Miranda says, he has been part of building a city from [email protected] scratch. Michele Carey - General Manager Also coming to Maricopa: Maroon 5 • Multigenerational center and regional park. Both 480-686-4315 are to be completed in March 2014. [email protected] • City Hall and police station to be completed by November. Arizona Builders Exchange • The Boyer Company is partnering with Maricopa 1400 E Indian School Road to build an industrial and office park on the Phoenix, AZ 85014 Estrella Gin property. • A multimillion-dollar grade separation of the AZBEX News Union Pacific Railroad and Arizona 347 Read more at AZCentral. We hit our 300th Issue! Note: AZCentral is now premium content. Readers are permitted 20 free article views per month. AZBEX - Tip of the Week Our Classifieds section is picking up new job openings. Make sure to check them out on page 12 Editor’s Picks from the Last Issue • Second San Carlos Casino Planned Near Oracle Maricopa City Manager Brenda Fischer and Economic Development Director Micah • Branding Effort Would Catapult Miranda at a recent groundbreaking ceremony of Maricopa’s regional park. Arizona Economy Photo Credit: Shelley Gillespie /Special for The Republic Click here to return to Table of Contents 4 Volume 3, Issue 100 Business Investment Needed for Navajo Nation’s Future By Eric Jay Toll for “We can no longer sit in the pas- senger’s seat of receiving royalties Arizona Builder’s and taxes, while others dictate our Exchange direction,” Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly told the Navajo Nation Council in his annual State of the Na- tion address. Economic development initiatives by the nation are planned to broaden the largest Indian nation’s opportunities. Shelly’s primary program creates a holding company, Narbona Growth Fund, allowing the Nation to create subsidiary companies. Narbona will have a corporate structure with the Diné, the Navajo people, as preferred stockholders and the Dinétah, the Na- vajo Nation, holding the common—or voting—stock. The initiative must be Crews continue work on Twin Arrows Casino 20 miles east of Flagstaff, Ariz. Gaming approved by the Nation council, and officials expect the casino to open in May. Submitted photo. that action could come this summer. Photo Credit: Navajo-Hopi Observer He lauded a new data center that SB 1283 Might Create Indian County mission school between Gallup and opened in Shiprock, N.M., and is run Grants sits on I-40 and the rail line. Meanwhile, in the Capitol, Senate Bill by Navajo Tribal Utility Authority It’s a setting similar to the proposed 1283 cleared its first committee hear- Wireless. Union Pacific rail classification yard at ings with a unanimous recommenda- Picacho. Navajo Push for $1B EB-5 to Lure tion. The bill calls for a committee to Foreign Investment study creating a Northeast Arizona BNSF is putting $5M into the first county encompassing the Navajo and phase of the project, which still needs At the same time, Scottsdale-based Hopi nations. If signed, the commit- approval from the Navajo’s Invest- Empyrean West LLC and Global tee will submit its report December ment Committee. Private Funding, Inc., Los Angeles, 31 on the feasibility of carving out a are joining with the Nation to form Navajo leaders met with the Israeli huge chunk of Coconino, Apache and an EB-5 regional center for foreign Counsel-General about potential rela- Navajo counties to make the new investment to attract $1B in energy, tionships bringing agritech opportuni- county. transportation, broadband, and other ties to the Nation. Israeli companies projects. With a landmass the size of In light of Shelly’s speech and the have advanced technology in desert- West Virginia, the Navajo Nation is pending legislation, the winds seem region farming and systems to recycle the largest reservation on U.S. soil. to be shifting to encourage the Diné- as much as 80 percent of agricultural Its borders encompass land in Utah, tah to focus on economic indepen- water. Arizona and New Mexico, with the dence and other revenue sources Casinos Not Navajo Economic Devel- largest portion being in the Grand instead of depending on federal opment Direction Canyon State. money. The continuing national bud- get reductions could ultimately hurt More than 800 people—with a prefer- These initiatives will funnel taxes and Indian nation financial stability. ence for Navajo tribal members—will other revenues into the Navajo nation be hired by the new Twin Arrows Casi- rather than the federal government. Two other bills, SB 1319 and HB 2522 no Resort opening in May. The second The EB-5 corporations open the op- would create the county without the of the Tribe’s gaming establishments portunity for a foreign investor to put study, but both face a lot of opposi- does not reflect Diné plans to expand money into play with the Tribe and be tion and may not even get a commit- gaming as a revenue source.