Tuesday Volume 3 Issue 55 Issue Date: Aug 28, 2012 CONNECTING THE LOCAL BUILDING INDUSTRY Smithfield Opens AZ Office with a Bang: $37M Apartment Project in Phoenix By Eric Jay Smithfield Construction Group, for other trades will come later. Toll for The Chicago, opening its first Arizona The company will be using Arizona field office, has been tapped for contractors for the construction. Arizona Builder’s the design-build of the new Avalon Smithfield handles design and Exchange Apartments. The $36.7M, 225 unit engineering in-house. diagonally across from the older, studio, one- and two-bedroom apart- 4.5 story Cascade apartments. The The building permit application was ment complex is a redevelopment of project will demolish a single story submitted on August 24th and is a six acre site on N. 36th St. between office building and courtyard style currently under review. Phoenix has E. Turney and E. Campbell streets, apartment, along with a two story no estimate of when preliminary Phoenix. complex and a single family home. review will be completed. Demolition is expected to start in Smithfield, which just obtained its The four-story project will be on the November with the project complet- Arizona license, is actively seeking southeast corner of the intersection ing in November 2013. Avalon contractors for concrete, mechanical, of N. 36th St. and Campbell Ave. Partners is the developer. electrical and plumbing. A search At a Glance: Project: $37M, 225-Unit Apartment Complex Contact: Brian Bezanis at 312-266-9800 X 414, [email protected] Trades Needed: Concrete, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing Experience Required: Multi-family, Commercial Project Solicitations in this Issue: 29 Design/Consultants 46 Horizontal 28 Commercial 20 Products & Equipment 5 Development Opps 35 Utilities 46 Maintenance 22 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 55 Table of Contents Articles 7 3 Canadian Developer Invests Big in Pinal County 4 New ASU stadium and Mill Avenue Together 4 Flagstaff Continues to Lobby For Retail 5 $873K in Taxiway Improvements at Coolidge Airport 6 Public Session Set for 258 Unit, 4-Story Lofts at Hayden Ferry 6 Shea Homes to Build Nearly 250 Phoenix-area Homes 7 Sterling Villas Proposed for North Scottsdale 9 8 Gilbert Council Move Kills Main Street Commons 9 Residents Await Revised Saddle Mountain Plaza Plan 9 No Buyer Has Been Found For Arcadia Wright House 10 Seven Yuma Rail Corridor Alternatives Outlined 11 Page’s Horseshoe Bend Overlook Parking Lot to be Expanded 11 Tucson Streetcar Delivery to be at Least Three Months Late 12 Six Home Builders Purchase 569 Foreclosed Lots for $23M 12 MCAS ‘Ready To Go’ for F-35 Arrival 10 12 El Mirage Will Rebid Water-Meter Contract 13 Mesa’s Gateway Freeway progresses to Ellsworth 14 Phoenix IDA Approves $34M for Three Charter Schools 16 Chandler Schools Lag in Fixing Air Vents 16 Arizona Ranks 4th in Job Growth 17 Huge Davis-Monthan Solar Project Expected To Begin Soon 19 Arbitrator Orders $28M Skywalk Payment Sections 13 18 Permits Issued 19 Commercial Real Estate News 23 Events Project Opportunities 24 Planning/Design/Inspection/Consultant 27 Development Opportunities 19 28 Horizontal 33 Utilities 37 Commercial 41 Maintenance & Alterations 45 Products & Equipment 46 Pre-Solicitations Click here to return to Table of Contents 3 Tuesday, August 28, 2012 Canadian Developer Invests Big in Pinal County Meet the Team! By Gabriela Rico Original Headline: Massive Commercial Complex Promises Jobs for the Arizona for Casa Grande Daily Star [Phoenix Mart, a project fueled by Chinese investors that Rebekah Morris holds the promise of creating thousands of jobs is scheduled Tony Stark to break ground by year’s end in Pinal County. This caught the 480-709-4190 attention of another foreign investor, Walton Development [email protected] and Management, Calgary, Alberta.] Confident that the center of the Sun Corridor will become a Rachel Kettenhofen nucleus for industrial and commercial development, a Canadian Steve Rogers investment company is buying up land in Pinal County. Calgary, Alberta-based Walton Development and Management 480-227-2620 now owns 8.5K acres, including several large parcels along [email protected] Interstate 10, for industrial development. In the cities of Casa Grande, Coolidge and Eloy, Walton plans Eric Jay Toll to develop shopping centers, office complexes and master- Bruce Banner planned housing units, said Tim Terrill, chief operating officer 602-617-3797 for Walton Development and Management USA. [email protected] “We are optimistic about the future,” he said. “We continue to see small businesses opening and large businesses looking, especially with news of the Phoenix Mart. Michele Carey Natasha Romanoff (The) Phoenix Mart, the 1.5M SF commercial complex will be located on 500 acres in Casa Grande, about one mile east of the 480-686-4315 outlet mall on Florence Boulevard. [email protected] With a minimum investment of $500K, foreigners receive Arizona Builders Exchange conditional permanent residence in the U.S. and lease space 1400 E Indian School Road in the mart to peddle everything from kitchen gadgets to hotel furniture. Phoenix, AZ 85014 They are required to create a minimum of 10 full-time, perma- nent jobs for U.S. workers within two years. AZBEX News Today’s front page article is exclusive Already, 300 vendors have signed leases. to AZBEX. There are opportunities The Immigrant Investor Program, also known for subcontractors and the contact as “EB-5” was created by Congress in 1990 to information is in the AZBEX Note. AZBEX Note: For more stimulate the U.S. economy through job creation on the EB-5 program, see and investment by foreigners. It is administered by the August 17th issue of the Department of Homeland Security’s Citizenship AZBEX - Tip of the Week AZBEX. and Immigration Services. Good news, there are A/E/C positions available and we are happy to post Read more at AZStarNet employment ads for free. If you know someone that would fit, pass along the information to them. Check out page 15 for those opportunites. Rendering of Phoenix Mart Photo Credit: Casa Grande Editor’s Picks from the Last Issue • Architecture Billing Index Downturn Moderates as Negative Conditions Continue • Chandler’s Downtown, Capital Projects Anchor City Future Click here to return to Table of Contents 4 Volume 3 Issue 55 New ASU stadium and Mill Avenue Together Original stories Original stories from The Arizona Mary Ann Miller, Tempe Chamber Mill Avenue Impacts from The Arizona Republic of Commerce president, said the Between the lingering effects of the massive development would change Republic Business leaders are hopeful that recession and competition from the face of Tempe, ASU and Town Arizona State University’s stadium Tempe Marketplace, the Mill Avenue Lake. district will be the shot-in-the-arm District has dealt with stormy Tempe needs to fill in land that has Miller said that it would likely be economic conditions for several long sat vacant near Town Lake. difficult to launch such an ambitious years. plan in the still-tough economy. Although university officials have New businesses to recently open said the project could take 20 ASU unveiled concepts August include Rita’s, an Italian ice and years to fully develop, Mayor Mark 20th for the 330-acre district. No frozen desserts shop; the Beach Pit, Mitchell said that even moderate developer has been selected but the a Texas barbecue-and-beer joint; development is better than leaving university wants the master plan Bad Mother Cluckers, a restaurant the space vacant as it has been for to include retail, residential and specializing in chicken; and Desert years. amateur athletic facilities. Roots Kitchen, a vegan restaurant. Hotels and a World of Beer, which specializes in spa-and-wellness serving craft and import brews, is center could one of the most high-profile busi- complement the nesses to open on Mill. It is the beer athletic facilities. haven’s first location west of Texas. New development Downtown Tempe business leader would replace Nancy Hormann said the Mill Avenue much of ASU’s District’s model for success is having Karsten Golf one-of-a kind businesses that attract Course. people from across the Valley. The district is likely Gil Schmitt has owned three down- to have a great town Tempe businesses, including impact outside Sparky’s Old Town Creamery, an its boundaries in ice-cream shop, and Thirsty Dog Tempe’s Top-Rated 2 Go, a convenience store. Before downtown area, that he owned Arizona Shorts for 26 the Mill Avenue years. District. Changes Pedestrians walk on n are already afoot throughout Stadium District Attracts Interest to He would like to see more thoughtful Mill Avenue in Tempe. the Mill area. A number of new Mill Avenue planning, which encourages a better Photo Credit: Amrah businesses have been opening mix of retail, entertainment, bars Canul/The Republic Mitchell said he supports the effort in downtown Tempe. While the and service businesses, as well as because an athletics district next stadium district’s impact is not fully prevents too many of the same type to the nation’s largest campus by understood, university officials were of businesses from opening in the enrollment is a smart investment quoted as seeing it complement Mill relatively small Mill Avenue District. that would attract new industries to Avenue. the state and Tempe.