ADOT's $5.7B CIP Budget Cuts Highway Spending to $3.5B

Friday Volume 4 Issue 37 Issue Date: June 28, 2013 CONNECTING THE LOCAL BUILDING INDUSTRY ADOT’s $5.7B CIP Budget Cuts Highway Spending to $3.5B The gavel pounded “approved” on a challenging $5.7B ADOT budget. When you take out $2.6B from Maricopa and Pima county taxpayers more improvements and projects, and $1.2B for airports, the rest of the agency had to slash more than Arizona gets a paltry $1.9B for roads. $350M from its projected budget. In a ꢀme when maintaining the system and meeꢀng growing economic demands screams for the detailed subscriber-only 2013 Capital Project Issue. The subscriber- only 2014 Capital Project Issue will be published July 30). This includes Maricopa and Pima county taxpayervoted revenue, airport and transit spending—most of which is paid with federal grants. By Eric JayToll for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Legislaꢀve robbery, improved fuel economy, and recession-caused revenue declines combined to drain capital dollars from the Arizona Department of Transportaꢀon. To put the current five year plan into perspecꢀve, last year ADOT projected that it would spend $5.5B for highways between fiscal 2013 and 2017 (AZBEX, <a href="/goto?url=http://azbex.com/capital-projects-2012-2013/" target="_blank">July 31, 2012 </a>and State Spending Drops $2B over 5 Years The five year capital budget covering fiscal 2014-2018 is a $500M drop from last year. Combine this year’s reducꢀon with cuts last year, and the 2014-2018 budget is $2.2B less than the 5-year plan adopted in 2011. At the same ꢀme, the state’s road system cries out for increases maintenance and expanded capacity at an even higher pace as the state starts its post-recession growth. There are capital projects planned for Fiscal 2014 (AZBEX, <a href="/goto?url=http://azbex.com/adot-approves-5-7b-cip-for-next-five-years/" target="_blank">June 11</a>). ADOT plans call for $400M in statewide projects for the coming year. However, a year earlier, ADOT thought it would spend $774M in 2014 for state highway projects. Separately, Maricopa County has $500M and Pima, $80M, to spend in fiscal 2014, about the same numbers they projected in the fiscal 2013 budget. C o ntinued on page 3 Project Solicitations in this Issue: <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Commercial </li><li style="flex:1">Products & Equipment </li></ul>Design/Consultant Development Opps Horizontal Utilities 20 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">45 </li><li style="flex:1">31 </li></ul>0 17 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Maintenance </li><li style="flex:1">Bid Results/Awards </li></ul>33 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">26 </li><li style="flex:1">41 </li></ul>The Arizona Builder’s Exchange is a compilaꢀon of informaꢀon gathered from the public domain. Individual arꢀcles are protected by their respecꢀve copyright. The publicaꢀon as a whole is copyright protected to the Arizona Builder’s Exchange. To forward or share the informaꢀon with others outside of your ꢁrm is a violaꢀon of that copyright, punishable by law. Volume 4, Issue 38 2Table of Contents Articles 44567$7.8M for Tucson Convention Center Improvements Norville, Rio Nuevo Open Talks on Building Downtown Hotel Homeowners Concerned about Germann Road Plan Casino Foes Lose Another Legal Challenge 889Controversial Mesa Condo Project Gets 7-0 OK Mesa Bond-Election Wish List Takes Shape 10 23 48 Avondale Mayor Urges Restoration to Block Grant Funds 10 Geographic Expansion Is Key Focus for CRE Executives 11 ASU Payson Land Sale Moves Project Forward 12 Eloy Awaits Final Decision on Local FTZ 12 Prescott Economic Development Group Revs Up Economy 13 Tolleson Budget Will Fund Downtown Face-Lift 13 Pinal Public Works: It Was Like ‘Animal House’ Over There 14 Yavapai-Apache Nation Explores Dev of Detention Center 14 Ft Mohave Tribe Purchases Desert Lakes Golf Course 14 Goodyear, Mesa Subdivisions Move Towards Development 15 Payson Schools Need to Expand 15 Elrus Hires First Employees At Eloy Site, Opens Sept. 16 Work on $1.3B Tucson Rosemont Mine Could Begin In Winter 22 West Valley Hospital Projects Take Differing Paths <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Sections </li><li style="flex:1">Project Opportunities </li></ul>16 Classifieds 26 Planning/Design/Inspection/Consultant 30 Horizontal 37 Utilities 17 Local Industry Professionals in the News 19 Bid Results & Project Awards 23 Local Projects Making News 25 Industry Events 40 Commercial 44 Maintenance & Alterations 47 Products & Equipment 48 AZBEX Trending Graph Friday, June 28, 2013 3ADOT $5.7B Budget Cuts Highways to $3.5B Meet the Team! Continued from page 1 To compare, there were 28 statewide projects with values over Rebekah Morris - Publisher Mega Blocks $10M in 2013. In the budget for 2014, only five highway projects valued at more than $10M; four of those are “preservaꢀon” projects. 480-709-4190 <a href="mailto:rmorris%40azbex.com?subject=" target="_blank">[email protected] </a>Rachel Kettenhofen - Editor Legos ADOT Needs New Funding Formula 480-227-2620 <a href="mailto:rkettenhofen%40azbex.com?subject=" target="_blank">rkeꢂ[email protected] </a>Earlier this year, there was a call to find new ways to finance capital projects (AZBEX, <a href="/goto?url=http://azbex.com/push-grows-for-arizona-transportation-funding-fix/" target="_blank">March 15</a>), but the plans flailed in a legislature unable to solve criꢀcal state capital funding requirements. ADOT, and federal, highway funding is based on taxes collected on the number of gallons sold rather than a percent of sales revenue. Fuel conservaꢀon programs and the bad economy combined to reduce the number of gallons purchased, undermining revenue growth. The legislature conꢀnued its recessionera raids sweeping highway user trust fund money into the state’s general fund to balance the budget. Eric Jay Toll - Senior Correspondent Lincoln Logs 602-617-3797 <a href="mailto:etoll%40azbex.com?subject=" target="_blank">[email protected] </a>Michele Carey - General Manager Kinex 480-686-4315 <a href="mailto:mcarey%40azbex.com?subject=" target="_blank">[email protected] </a>While the legislature breaks arms paꢁng each other on the back for not raising taxes, voters in Maricopa and Pima counꢀes raised their own taxes to provide for major transportaꢀon projects. Even with the locals carrying the state financial burden, only four major projects can move forward in Pima County and 15 in Maricopa County. These projects are a few of highway improvements needed to keep the state’s transportaꢀon and transit networks meeꢀng the needs of a growing populaꢀon. Arizona Builders Exchange 1400 E Indian School Road Phoenix, AZ 85014 AZBEX News Rural Arizona Suffers the Most AZBEX will not be published on Friday July 5th. Rural Arizona—including the burgeoning traffic increases in Pinal and Yavapai counꢀes—gets few projects as the State Transportaꢀon Board focuses on preserving the exisꢀng system over the next five years. AZBEX - Tip of the Week The Fiscal 2014-2018 Five-Year Transportaꢀon Faciliꢀes Construcꢀon Program heard hours of public and local government input over the past few months. In an unprecedented public outreach, the board selected the opꢀon of preservaꢀon over new construcꢀon. We know that if a project doesn’t get funded, it will not get built. This is why why always follow the money. If we find it relevant to potenꢀal work, we are on it! With the limited budget and strongly compeꢀng needs, there was almost no money for needed road projects in rural areas. The state put what liꢂle discreꢀonary money it had for new construcꢀon dollars into rural counꢀes and leﬅ Maricopa and Pima on the hooks for most of their own needed highway projects. Over the next five years, $350M was cut from the budget—nearly ten percent of the total— and most of those cuts occurred in 2014. Editor’s Picks from the Last Issue Statewide <a href="/goto?url=http://azbex.com/statewide-construction-activity-increases-3-2/%23" target="_blank">Construcꢀon Acꢀvity Increases </a>••3.2% Casa Grande City Council agrees to study <a href="/goto?url=http://azbex.com/casa-grande-city-council-agrees-to-study-i-10-interchange-as-necessary-for-phoenixmart/%23" target="_blank">I-10 interchange as necessary </a>for PhoenixMart Read the complete five year plan at <a href="/goto?url=http://www.azdot.gov/MPD/priority_Programming/Five_Year_Programs.asp" target="_blank">ADOT </a>Click here to return to Table of Contents Volume 4, Issue 38 4$7.8M for Tucson Convention Center Improvements Describing the exisꢀng Tucson Convenꢀon Center arena as dreary and dingy, the Rio Nuevo board approved a $7.8M project to revive $7.8M forTucson Convention Center Improvements the ‘70s-era event center. Replacing the seats, adding a video scoreboard and acousꢀc material, replacing signage and lighꢀng, painꢀng with a new color scheme, and renovaꢀng the breezeway, bathrooms and concession stands are all part of the scope of work approved by the board at Monday’s meeꢀng. The $1.7M in new seats won’t change the arena capacity, but they will be more comfortable and have cup holders. No new bathrooms will be added, but the exisꢀng ones will get aestheꢀc upgrades. AZBEX Note: Swaim Associates Ltd Architects designed the renovaꢀons. The district has adopted a new procurement code, and it will be a month or two before a solicitaꢀon for GC is available. The south wall, now block and conduit, will be covered with acousꢀc material that will look nicer and improve sound quality. The point is to generate more money at the convenꢀon center, which board members said has been “blacklisted” by some event planners. Some of the money will come from bond proceeds and some will come from sales-tax revenue. The city is doing its part, having spent $17.5M on TCC repairs in the past year or so, including work on carpets, sidewalks and escalators, city general-services director Ron Lewis told the board. Read more at <a href="/goto?url=http://azstarnet.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/m-for-tcc-improvements-voted-by-rio-nuevo-board/article_f075df95-b0ca-5569-a341-704e8d433e30.html" target="_blank">AZStarNet </a>Rendering Credits: Rio Nuevo Click here to return to Table of Contents Friday, June 28, 2013 5Norville, Rio Nuevo Open Talks on Building Downtown Tucson Hotel Downtown property owner Allan Norville is taking another swing at building a new downtown hotel and exhibiꢀon center. The talks mark the latest aꢂempt by Norville to build a hotel on his property near the Tucson Convenꢀon Center. By Becky Pallack and Darren DaRonco for the Arizona Daily Star Norville, who owns nearly all the private property The Rio Nuevo board voted unanimously June 24 to open between the TCC and Interstate 10, has been offering negoꢀaꢀons with Norville for the joint development of an up-to-250-room hotel and an exhibiꢀon hall across from the Tucson Convenꢀon Center, on the west side of Granada Avenue. hotel and exhibiꢀon hall proposals since 1995. But none has progressed beyond the planning stage. Together the parcels could be the site for: ••••a 140-250 room hotel; an exhibiꢀon hall; a parking garage for 1,200 vehicles; a mixed-use area with homes, shops, restaurants and access to the new streetcar line. Under the draﬅ terms adopted Monday, Norville would be responsible for developing a hotel and exhibit hall. Rio Nuevo would fix a drainage issue that the TCC property creates, build a new intersecꢀon at South Granada Avenue and Cushing Street, construct, or find someone to construct, a 1,200-space parking lot, and develop a space for retail, dining, residenꢀal and pedestrian uses all within easy access to the streetcar line. Tucson Convenꢀon Center Read more at <a href="/goto?url=http://azstarnet.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/norville-rio-nuevo-open-talks-on-building-downtown-hotel/article_fa802c97-a58e-52b5-9ecd-59d0ca094464.html" target="_blank">AZStarNet </a>Visit <a href="/goto?url=http://www.precision3dscanning.com" target="_blank">www.precision3dscanning.com </a>to learn more or request a free demonstration by calling (480) 510-1049 or email <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>. 2013 Mulꢀ-Family Market Forecast Our July Breakfast Event will bring back the Mulꢀ-Family Market Forecast for a second ꢀme! Come listen to a panel of industry experts weigh on the return of the mulꢀ-family market and where it’s going in the future. Tom Simplot of the AMA will return as moderator and we are currently seꢁng up a fantasꢀc speaker line-up. • 3d modeling in Revit, CAD, Civil 3d, SketchUp, etc. • Scan for exisꢀng as-built condiꢀons • 2d and 3d deliverables available • Laser scanning to BIM SPEAKERS •• Jack Hannum, Vice President - Transwestern Melanie Morrison, CPM, Co-Owner - MEB Management Services •More Speakers to be Announced Soon! MODERATOR •Tom Simplot, President/CEO - Arizona Mulꢀhousing Associaꢀon Phoenix City Councilman, District #4 <a href="/goto?url=http://www.cmaaaz.org/events-1/programs/" target="_blank">Click here for more detail and to register </a>(Early-bird) Cost: $30 member. $45 Non-member, $25 Student <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Tuesday, July 9th, 2013 </li><li style="flex:1">7:30am - 9:15am </li></ul>Phoenix County Club 2091 N. 7th Street Phoenix, AZ 85014 Click here to return to Table of Contents Volume 4, Issue 38 6Developers Interested; Homeowners Concerned about Germann Road Plan Three opꢀons were presented to property owners and future developers for improving Germann Road between back to the Germann Road alignment. The Union Pacific south to Riꢂenhouse Road and then weave northwest By Eric JayToll for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Queen Creek and Mesa. The Corridor Improvement Plan, funded by ADOT’s Planning Assistance for Rural Areas program, covers future needs for the arterial between Ironwood and Power roads. Development representaꢀves were interested in improvement ꢀming, but area homeowners quesꢀoned ADOT and town representaꢀves whether the proposed five lane cross secꢀon and features are really needed. Railroad cuts through that intersecꢀon with a surface crossing. The study’s focus is on finding the right design to connect Germann Road to the west, accommodate the intersecꢀon with Sossaman, cross the Riꢂenhouse Channel and the railroad. Four original concepts presented have been revised into three plans for public comment. Revised Alternaꢀve A is similar to the original Scenario A, and curves Sossaman Road east to an at-grade intersecꢀon with a northerly curving Germann Road. Both roads conꢀnue south and east with separate flyovers. The other three scenarios were dropped from consideraꢀon for the public meeꢀng. In its <a href="/goto?url=http://azbex.com/adot-readying-germann-road-corridor-improvement-plans/" target="_blank">June 18 </a>story, AZBEX reported levels of service on Germann Road in the Corridor Improvement Planning area were currently rated E and F. This was erroneous; the arꢀcle should have read that the LOS raꢀngs were forecast to drop to E and F if improvements were not in place when development occurred in the corridor. The ADOT study did not specify a date when this would occur, but esꢀmated traffic based on projected general plan land use paꢂerns. The revised Alternaꢀve B liﬅs Germann Road over Sossaman, the channel and UPRR. A connector with two T intersecꢀons links Germann and Sossaman roads. The new Alternaꢀve C also liﬅs Germann Road over Sossaman, UPRR and the Riꢂenhouse Channel. The connector between the two roads takes less space, and a ramp for eastbound Germann Road traffic to get to northbound Sossaman Road is part of the project. Wilson & Company, the firm charged with preparing ADOT’s only involvement is funding and projectmanaging the corridor plan. Queen Creek requested the study for the MCDOT-funded road. The plan does not idenꢀfy improvement dates nor does it mean construcꢀon will be added to MCDOT CIPs. Queen Creek the alternaꢀves, cauꢀons that other concepts could be says that some of the costs are going to be developer- funded. ADOT will not be involved in any aspects of construcꢀon or design. The project will be a joint venture with MCDOT, Mesa and Queen Creek. considered if future studies take place. Queen Creek has not included the improvements on its five year transportaꢀon capital improvement plan, but town engineer Chris Dovel told AZBEX that the city could amend its plan were the need for the improvements to come into play. A major component of the study is the intersecꢀon of Germann and Sossaman roads. Currently, Germann road Ts into Sossaman, and westbound traffic must cut Click here to return to Table of Contents Friday, June 28, 2013 7Casino Foes Lose Another Legal Challenge A federal judge on Tuesday threw out O’odham Naꢀon in 2002, personally Tuesday’s ruling is another major setback for foes of the casino who have tried -- and lost -- various By Howard Fischer for Capitol Media Services the last vesꢀges of a challenge to a new casino in Glendale, saying it’s legally irrelevant whether the state -- or even voters -- thought the deal they were approving precluded it. represented to editorial boards of two Tucson newspapers that the gaming compact meant there would legal efforts to prevent the Tohono be no addiꢀonal casinos in the Phoenix area. Nor did Campbell get into the issue of whether lobbyist O’odham from building a casino on land they bought a decade ago. Campbell and federal appellate <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Judge David Campbell did not dispute Joe Abate told lawmakers that the </li><li style="flex:1">courts have previously rejected other </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">contenꢀons, including that Congress, </li><li style="flex:1">contenꢀons by the state and two </li></ul>other tribes that Edward Manuel, who was chairman of the Tohono number of casinos in Maricopa County at that ꢀme would be frozen. in allowing the tribe to purchase the land, never intended to let the tribe <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">What Campbell did </li><li style="flex:1">build a casino on the property. </li></ul>conclude is that it the only thing that maꢂers is what But it is unlikely to be the last word is in the compact itself. in the court fights that have dragged on for years. Gregory Mendoza, “It does not contain a ban governor of the Gila River Indian on new casinos in the Phoenix area,’’ the judge Community, called Tuesday’s ruling a “setback’’ and said an appeal is being wrote. And Campbell said considered. there is no way to read its terms in any other way, even with all the outside evidence of what might have been what some people understood. Read more at <a href="/goto?url=http://www.yourwestvalley.com/glendale/article_433bff28-de00-11e2-bcfa-001a4bcf887a.html" target="_blank">Your West Valley </a>SSpecified Products, Inc. was founded in 1990 as 3M’s first ever, specialty fire stopping distributor in the United States. Our project history includes virtually every type of construction from multi-family to heavy industrial. Call us for all your fire stopping needs! Contact: Doug Shreiner at 602-252-8577 or email dshreiner@specifiedproducts.com Click here to return to Table of Contents Volume 4, Issue 38 8Controversial Mesa Condo Project Gets 7-0 OK <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">A controversial condominium project The site is bounded on the west and </li><li style="flex:1">Anderson also pointed out that the </li></ul>approximately 26-foot-tall buildings By Gary Nelson forThe Arizona Republic in east Mesa won unanimous City Council approval last week despite a legal protest and opposiꢀon from dozens of neighbors. south by the Valle Del Oro mobile home park, many of whose residents are actually smaller than what Mesa’s objected to the size of the proposed buildings and the proximity to their lot lines. ordinances allow. “By code you could build a 40-foot building 30 feet off the property line,” he said, and the City Council would have no say on that. The case sparked the longest City Council zoning hearing since the recession all but smothered Mesa’s building industry five years ago. He said the developer agreed to design changes that would prevent residents of two-story buildings Also Monday, the council approved a single-family housing development on closest to Valle Del Oro from peering the east side of Val Vista Drive south Ellsworth & U.S. 60 LLC, represented by zoning aꢂorney Reese Anderson, plans to build a 42-building, 240-unit, gated community on about 15 acres on the west side of Ellsworth Road, south of Southern Avenue. into the RV park’s backyards. Those units, he said, would have either clerestory windows — too high to see from — or fake windows added for the sake of architectural interest. of Main Street. The 11-acre project won unanimous approval.

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