Tuesday Volume 4 Issue 7 Issue Date: March 12, 2013 CONNECTING THE LOCAL BUILDING INDUSTRY Steps Being Taken for Yuma Regional Medical Center Growth A new, much-larger Emergency for the hospital to grow as the and laboratory services for the By Joyce Lobeck Department has been on the demand for services increases. 77K people who visit the ED each for Yuma Sun to-do list for Yuma Regional year, said Walz. The plan is to start work on the Medical Center for some time, site for the new ED by January The new ED will feature an but to develop it, several other 2014 and have the facility elevated helipad that can “make way” projects need to be completed and ready to begin accommodate two helicopters completed first. serving patients by the fall of above a ground level entry This makes it a lengthy and 2016, said Pat Walz, YRMC for ambulances, central plant complex process that ultimately president and CEO. upgrades, parking and site comes with a breathtaking $250M enhancements and a full At 59K SF vs. the current ED’s 17K price tag. basement for expanded support SF, the new department will have services. And the building will be In the end, though, YRMC will increased bed capacity from 37 designed so floors can be added have a state-of-the-art Emergency to 72 — with shelled space for as more space is needed. Department with more than three future needs. It also will have times the space of the current adjacent radiological services for Continued on page 3 congested one — and room more efficient delivery of X-ray AZBEX Note: ARCHSOL is the designer on the project. The CMAR solicitation is on the street right now, and the hospital expects to select the GC in early April. The $250M figure quoted in the article is the total 10-year build- out for the campus, which includes FF&E. The ED phase is closer to $60-$70M. This artist rendering shows plans for the future, larger Emergency Department at Yuma Regional Medical Center. Several other projects need to be completed first at YRMC before the new department can be completed. Photo Credit: ARCHSOL Project Solicitations in this Issue: 45 Design/Consultants 44 Horizontal 25 Commercial 23 Products & Equipment 4 Development Opps 20 Utilities 45 Maintenance 26 Permits Issued The Arizona Builder’s Exchange is a compilation of information gathered from the public domain. 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To forward or share the information with others outside of your firm is a violation of that copyright, punishable by law. 2 Volume 4, Issue 7 Table of Contents Articles 5 3 Huppenthal Touts Chance to Save on School IT Costs 4 Pinal Leaders Rally for Red Rock Railyard 5 Sun State Building 450K SF Buckeye Warehouse 6 Mesa’s 2014 General Plan Update 7 Gateway Community College Opens Entrepreneur Center 7 Despite Influx of High Quality Jobs, Progress Still Needed 8 8 Mesa Arts Center Changes Proposed 9 Greasewood Flats Solution to Discovery Center Controversy 10 Eastmark Infrastructure: Sustainable, Responsible Practices 11 Arizona Highly Ranked for 2012 Clean Energy Job Growth 11 List of Angry Customers Growing Against Valley Solar Co. 11 Four Airports in AZ Slated for Sequester Tower Closures 12 Tucson Streetcar Project Costs Balloon 9 13 Goodmans Asking Public to Vote for This Year’s ‘Good Guys’ 15 Mark-Taylor, Kitchell Team on Tempe Apartment Complex 17 Casa Grande Planning Board Approves Charter School 17 Phoenix Observation Tower One Step Closer Sections 12 Classifieds 10 14 Permits Issued 16 Commercial Real Estate News 18 Industry Events Project Opportunities 19 Planning/Design/Inspection/Consultant 25 Development Opportunities 16 25 Horizontal 32 Utilities 35 Commercial 39 Maintenance & Alterations 43 Products & Equipment 3 Tuesday, March 12, 2013 Steps Being Taken for YRMC Growth (Cont’d) Meet the Patient Tower Shell Completed; Cancer Center Starts Team! Completing three shelled floors of the patient tower also was put on a fast track to provide more bed space to help alleviate Rebekah Morris - Publisher congestion in the ED and to replace the beds in the east wing, Butch Cassidy he said. The fourth floor was completed in 2011, the third 480-709-4190 floor was opened this January and the fifth floor was opened last month. [email protected] Groundbreaking for a new cancer center is expected to take place early this summer, with the new facility scheduled Rachel Kettenhofen - Editor to open in the summer of 2014, Walz said. Children’s “Black Jack” Ketchum Rehabilitation Services will be moved to a new building to be 480-227-2620 built in Tuscany Plaza. [email protected] In addition, a three-level, 390-space parking garage will be constructed on the west end of YRMC, with the top floor to be level with and adjacent to the front door of the hospital. Eric Jay Toll - Senior Correspondent It is expected to be completed in December. It won’t add Buffalo Bill significantly more parking spaces but will improve patient 602-617-3797 access by eliminating the challenges associated with the [email protected] current slope and layout of the parking lot, Walz explained. Also, a four-lane ring road will be constructed around the Michele Carey - General Manager south side of the campus connecting to both 24th Street and Billy the Kid Avenue to improve vehicular access. Read more at Yuma Sun 480-686-4315 [email protected] Huppenthal Touts Chance to Save on School IT Costs Arizona Builders Exchange 1400 E Indian School Road By Shelley John Huppenthal, state superintendent of public instruction, Phoenix, AZ 85014 Gillespie for the wasted little time swinging away at the state of information Arizona Republic technology in Arizona’s education system during his address to an audience of about 50 at the Ahwatukee Republican Women AZBEX News on February 26. If you’d like to learn more about how we do what we do, consider Huppenthal lamented that his job is made more attending the next lunch with the difficult by an IT system that he described as a Publisher on March 19th. See “cancer upon the educational system within the page 4 for details. state.” Schools duplicate technology when upgrading their IT systems, wasting millions of dollars, AZBEX - Tip of the Week Huppenthal said, citing Mesa Public Schools as an The Permits Issued section is a good example (AZBEX, January 25th). indicator of which owners are actively Statewide, schools spend $284M a year on IT. building. We track permits with valuations of $500K or greater. John Huppenthal He said his plans would save schools $111M annually by developing economies of scale. Check out page 14 for this weeks permits An example of how old technology impacts education is student records that are not available for every student upon transfer to a new school. Teachers must spend hours tracing Editor’s Picks and updating information, instead of spending more fruitful from the Last Issue time on instruction and preparation. • January National Construction Dollars Read more at AZCentral. Note: AZCentral is now premium Slide to $883B—Maybe Not content. Readers are permitted 20 free article views per month. • USAA To Add 380K to Phoenix Campus Click here to return to Table of Contents 4 Volume 4, Issue 7 Pinal Leaders Rally for Red Rock Railyard By Lora Neu for A contingent of representatives from similar resolution last year. He pointed Eloy Enterprise Eloy city government and the Eloy busi- out that there have been meetings AZBEX Note: The ness community spoke at last week’s with the legislature, but the county and Union Pacific Rail Road Pinal County Board of Supervisors other stakeholders “can’t seem to get intends to invest close meeting in Florence. The message they any movement” on the land auction. to $250M into the brought was loud and clear: The Union project. Pinal County’s Pinal County Assessor Douglas Wolf Pacific Railroad Classification Yard is economic development also spoke in support of the project strongly supported in Eloy. department projects the and said that in his opinion, “adjacent logistic center it the rail The group came to put their voices land values would increase,” and not classification center will behind a Pinal County Board of Super- go down in value. catalyze can pump $25B visors resolution requesting Governor “A 150-year-old Fortune 100 company into the Pinal County Jan Brewer to direct the Arizona State wants to pay you (the state) to come economy over 20 years Land Department to auction the prop- here and create jobs,” she commented (AZBEX, July 3rd). The erty that is needed for the project, and as being an obvious opportunity. county’s projections were to do it within six months. The board blasted by a controversial unanimously approved the resolution, Opposition to the project has centered consultant analysis and according to a press release from around impact to nearby Picacho Peak (AZBEX, November 27th) Pinal County, Union Pacific has been State Park due to fears that it will nega- prepared for State Land waiting six years for the State to act on tively impact views from the Park. Department—but written the land located north of Red Rock and Also, the State Land Department has without any contact and east of Interstate 10. concerns about infrastructure cost and discussion with railroad or “We’ve done this before,” said board the correct pricing for the land. county officials. member Pete Rios, who was a member Read more at TriValleyCentral of the previous Board that passed a Lunch with the Publisher Want some tips & tricks to maximize your use of the information we track? Come enjoy Lunch with the Publisher & get some new ideas! 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