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Maricopa City Manager Brenda Fischer last candidate standing for Glendale manager
By Paul Giblin and Caitlin McGlade | The Arizona Republic One of two finalists for Glendale city manager dropped out of the search on Monday, leaving officials uncertain how to proceed in its quest for the city’s top leader. Maricopa City Manager Brenda Fischer is the last candidate standing after a nationwide search that attracted [...]
Read More →TwitterZona: Cheers and jeers for Supremes; wine time in AZ; Clinton and McCain’s good sides; Alice Cooper at Hall of Fame
TwitterZona Highlighting news and images from around Arizona—via tweets. By @MikeTheSauce TWEET IS THE WORD Cronkite News journo John Genovese: “It’s official — ‘Tweet’ has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary as both a noun and a verb” YAY, SCOTUS! North Scottsdale political surgeon Mario Enrique Diaz: “The ugliness of AZ’s poisonous legislators is [...]
Read More →Rose Law Group Chairman of Family Law Department, Kaine Fisher – Parental rights of the unwed father
by Kaine Fisher According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s website, and as of 2010, over 40% of children born in the United States are born to unwed parents. This poses some interesting legal issues when it comes to parental rights, especially where a biological father is concerned. It is not uncommon to [...]
Read More →Homebuilder confidence turns positive for first time in 7 years
By Kristena Hansen | Phoenix Business Journal Homebuilder confidence soared to a new milestone this month as the shortage of existing homes for sale continues pushing frustrated buyers to the new-home market, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index released Monday. Builder confidence nationwide climbed to a reading of 52 [...]
Read More →Home resales up by more than 72% over year earlier
The Monday Morning Quarterback, a quick analysis of important economic data released over the past week Elliott D. Pollack & Co. Arizona Snapshot: While weekly unemployment claims increased for the week ending June 8th, they are still down considerably from a year ago. Both Arizona and Maricopa County retail sales continued to grow. For Greater [...]
Read More →Taxation Vexation: Tax appeals frequently lead to dead ends
By Catherine Reagor and Ronald J. Hansen | The Arizona Republic As the owner of two houses in Scottsdale and one in Glendale, Walter Juessen probably knows more than most about real estate in Maricopa County. Even so, he finds himself surprised by a property-tax system that seems to him at odds with common sense. [...]
Read More →Mesa development works to land diverse partnerships
By Maria Polletta | The Arizona Republic Scottsdale-based DMB Associates has billed its latest project — a 5-square-mile, mixed-use community in east Mesa called Eastmark — as a place where “the finest ideas for how we want to live today unite … in a way that’s never quite been done before.” But DMB can’t offer [...]
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Taxation Vexation: Special districts often lead to wildly disparate tax bills among neighbors
By Michelle Ye Hee Lee | The Arizona Republic Arizona’s patchwork of special taxing districts took shape more than three decades ago as local governments looked for ways around property-tax limits without incurring voter wrath. Today, that system is convoluted, inconsistently regulated and often mystifies taxpayers. Its effects can make or break homeowners, whose property-tax [...]
Read More →Ak-Chin Indian Community puts name on Desert Sky Pavilion with sponsor deal
Phoenix Business Journal By Tim Gallen West Valley concert venue Desert Sky Pavilion has a new name. The 20,000-seat venue in west Phoenix will now be called Ak-Chin Pavilion after the Ak-Chin Indian Community inked a deal with Live Nation Entertainment, which owns the 23-year-old pavilion. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The [...]
Read More →The number of homes with negative equity falls 6.7% in Q113
By Brent Nyitray,| Market Realist Corelogic’s Home Equity Report analyzes changes in home equity from a number of different perspectives. Home equity can be used to predict default rates, and we saw a large number of strategic defaults early in the housing bust as professional investors realized they were better off walking away from a [...]
Read More →Rising mortgage rates elicit fears they could hurt housing recovery
By Amrita Jayakumar | The Washington Post Worry and speculation have consumed investors since Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke to Congress last month about the Federal Reserve’s drive to keep long-term interest rates at record lows. The Obama administration made a directive in April to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts. Rates are now [...]
Read More →Home resales surge
By Sherry Butler | Southeast Valley Ledger May was another blow-out month for re-sale transactions with very strong sales counts and dollar volume according to the Michael Orr Cromford Report summary. Supply still remains very constrained but despite the big sales count we are starting to see a few signs of weakening demand. If the [...]
Read More →House passes bill to fix decades-old property-line snafu in Coconino County
By Xi Chen | Cronkite News Service The U.S. House voted overwhelmingly Monday to approve a bill to fix a federal surveying error that had put homes of some residents of the Mountainaire subdivision partly in the Coconino National Forest. The bill, sponsored by Reps. Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Flagstaff, and Paul Gosar, R-Prescott, would allow 25 [...]
Read More →Bank of America gave bonuses for hitting foreclosure quotas, suit alleges
Phoenix Business Journal Former homeowners are seeking class-action status in an ongoing suit against Bank of America Corp., which stands accused of using gift cards, cash bonuses and other means to encourage employees to meet foreclosure quotas. According to Bloomberg News, the plaintiffs, whose class-action appeal is working its way through a federal court in [...]
Read More →SCOTUS takes housing bias case
By Greg Stohr | Bloomberg Businessweek The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether people who file housing discrimination suits must show they were victims of intentional bias, accepting a case that may undercut the Obama administration’s crackdown on the lending industry. The justices Monday agreed to consider an appeal by Mount Holly, New Jersey, which [...]
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Upscale senior housing complex in North Scottsdale trades for $30 million
Scottsdale – A company formed by The Reliant Group in San Francisco, Calif. (Joseph Sherman, pres.) paid $30 million ($176,471 per unit) to acquire a 170-unit senior housing project in Scottsdale called Arté. The seller was Arte Senior Living LLC, a company formed by Avenir Group of Cos. in Vancouver, B.C., Canada (David “Les” Craik [...]
Read More →Bascom bolsters multi-family holdings with 432 units in Phoenix…pays $40.725 million
Phoenix – A company formed by Bascom Arizona Ventures LLC paid $40.725 million ($94,271 per unit) to acquire the 432-unit Arcadia Cove apartments at the southwest corner of 44th and Oak streets in Phoenix. The seller was 2252 North 44th Street LLC, a company formed by BRE Properties Inc. in San Francisco, Calif. (NYSE:BRE, Constance [...]
Read More →Mark-Taylor buying sites in Mesa and Chandler to build 550 apartments
Mesa/Chandler – Mark-Taylor Inc. in Scottsdale (Jeff Mark, Scott Taylor, principals) plans to develop roughly 550 apartments in two multi-family communities in the southeast Valley. The apartment developer is under contract to acquire parcels in Mesa and Chandler that together add to more than 30 acres. Both of the land purchases are scheduled to close [...]
Read More →Hanover Co. closes Centerpoint site to build 341 apartments
Tempe – In a deal first reported by BREW in December 2012, The Hanover Co. in Houston, Tex. (J. Murry Bowden, CEO) has paid $7 million to buy a 2.76-acre parcel within the Centerpoint mixed-use project in Tempe that will allow the company to build 341 upscale multi-family units. The seller was Centerpoint Land LLC, [...]
Read More →Griffin Capital spends $31.5 million for Chandler office-distribution project
Chandler – Griffin Capital Essential Asset REIT in El Segundo, Calif. (Kevin Shields, CEO) has expanded into the Valley by investing $31.5 million ($138.11 per foot) to acquire a 228,086-square-foot industrial-office building in Chandler that is fully leased to Avnet Inc. (NYSE:AVT) for its headquarters. The two-story project, located south of the 202 Freeway and [...]
Read More →Walton and Everest Holdings team up for second commercial venture with $12.2 million deal
Tempe – Walton-EH Tempe Commerce JV VI LLC, a joint venture formed by Chicago, Ill.-based Walton Street Capital LLC (Perry Pinto, et al., principals) and Everest Holdings in Scottsdale (Joe Blackbourn, principal), paid $12.2 million ($76.10 per foot) to acquire 160,313 sq. ft. of back-office space located within the Tempe Commerce Park in Tempe. The [...]
Read More →Wentworth/Clarion venture to develop 900,000 square-foot industrial park
Phoenix – A venture formed by Wentworth Property Co. in Phoenix (James Wentworth, Sr., James Wentworth, Jr., principals) and Clarion Partners LLC in New York City, N.Y., (Stephen Furnary, CEO) plans to develop a 900,000-square-foot industrial park about one mile south of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. Rio Salado Commerce Park LLC (the [...]
Read More →San Diego based investor spends $16.85 million to buy Tempe Apartments from EQR
Tempe – A company formed by Pathfinder Partners LLC in San Diego, Calif. (Lorne Polger, principal) paid $16.485 million ($114,479 per unit) to buy the 144-unit Copper Creek apartments located at 3501 S. McClintock Drive in Tempe. The seller was Willow Creek Community Rentals L.P., a limited partnership formed by Equity Residential Trust in Chicago, [...]
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Tucson approves civil unions for same-sex couple
By Molly Baker | TucsonSentinel.com In a unanimous vote, the City Council approved a new ordinance Tuesday that allows for domestic partnerships and civil unions between same-sex couples. Tucson is the second Arizona city, after Bisbee, to recognize civil unions. Previously, Councilwoman Karin Uhlich had said that Tucson should do everything it can to increase [...]
Read More →Cynthia Seelhammer new interim deputy city manager in Maricopa
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Read More →Rising mortgage rates elicit fears they could hurt housing recovery
By Amrita Jayakumar | The Washington Post Worry and speculation have consumed investors since Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke to Congress last month about the Federal Reserve’s drive to keep long-term interest rates at record lows. The Obama administration made a directive in April to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts. Rates are now [...]
Read More →Maricopa City Manager Brenda Fischer last candidate standing for Glendale manager
By Paul Giblin and Caitlin McGlade | The Arizona Republic One of two finalists for Glendale city manager dropped out of the search on Monday, leaving officials uncertain how to proceed in its quest for the city’s top leader. Maricopa City Manager Brenda Fischer is the last candidate standing after a nationwide search that attracted [...]
Read More →House passes bill to fix decades-old property-line snafu in Coconino County
By Xi Chen | Cronkite News Service The U.S. House voted overwhelmingly Monday to approve a bill to fix a federal surveying error that had put homes of some residents of the Mountainaire subdivision partly in the Coconino National Forest. The bill, sponsored by Reps. Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Flagstaff, and Paul Gosar, R-Prescott, would allow 25 [...]
Read More →Glendale hikes its property tax
By Colleen Sikorski | The Arizona Republic Glendale residents will see their property tax rates increase in July, although they might not pay a higher dollar amount. The Glendale City Council formally approved the property tax increase and the 2014 budget for $576 million Friday. The property tax will increase by 38 cents per $1,000 [...]
Read More →The look of Tempe homes unappealing, survey shows
By Dianna M. Náñez | The Arizona Republic Hoping to evaluate homes that might not violate city code but still are regarded by city inspectors as having an unappealing “aesthetic value,” Tempe recently surveyed 640 residential properties and found that not one of the city’s four ZIP codes averaged even an “OK” rating. Results were [...]
Read More →Chandler City Council members back prayer policy
By Michelle Mitchell | The Arizona Republic The U.S. Supreme Court recently considered prayer before government meetings, and its decision may affect how Chandler and other cities handle the issue. Chandler has a longstanding tradition of an invocation before every city council meeting and study session. The City Clerk’s Office has a list of local [...]
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Rose Law Group Chairman of Family Law Department, Kaine Fisher – Parental rights of the unwed father
by Kaine Fisher According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s website, and as of 2010, over 40% of children born in the United States are born to unwed parents. This poses some interesting legal issues when it comes to parental rights, especially where a biological father is concerned. It is not uncommon to [...]
Read More →Pinal communities react to prayer ruling
By Melissa St. Aude | Casa Grande Dispatch In the town of Florence, each Town Council meeting begins with a prayer or invocation, usually led by a member of the clergy. The practice is new, having begun earlier this year at the urging of Mayor Tom Rankin. “I believe in prayer,” Rankin said. “Everybody can [...]
Read More →The 5 legal cases that have shaped modern divorce
By Mark Nayler|SPEARS The Supreme Court’s decision to ‘pierce the corporate veil’ in the Prest divorce case shows yet again that few areas of law are as changeable as divorce law. As Spear’s reported in the last issue, in which we ran our Family Law Index, a judge’s decision in a divorce case can result [...]
Read More →Why dads don’t take paternity leave
By Lauren Weber|The Wall Street Journal Yahoo Inc. YHOO +0.27% announced in April that new fathers can take eight weeks off at full pay. Bank of America Corp. BAC +0.46% offers 12 weeks of paid leave, and Ernst & Young a few years ago bumped its leave policy from two weeks to six. Fifteen percent [...]
Read More →Chandler man hopes book will humanize adoption
The Arizona Republic Chandler resident Mark Molzen is turning to the Internet to raise capital to help him publish a book on adoption — a subject he says too many people still don’t understand. He’s written the book, titled “Chosen with Purpose,” but has turned to the website Kickstarter (bit.ly/16N2as3) to raise $4,400 that he [...]
Read More →County child support employees decry transition in Pinal County
By Adam Gaub | Casa Grande Dispatch With the transition of the child support division in the Pinal County Attorney’s Office to state control set to occur at the end of June, long-standing employees within that department say the move has been anything but smooth. Two employees who are making the transition to become state [...]
Read More →Parent relocation – Arizona Foothills Q&A with Kaine Fisher, Director of Rose Law Group Family Law Department
Q&A with Kaine Fisher, Director of Rose Law Group Family Law Department “I was divorced 5 years ago and have since remarried. My ex-husband and I have an eight-year-old daughter and a five-year-old son. My current husband is in the United States Army and he just received word he is being re-stationed to Fort Benning [...]
Read More →Nash takes stand in ‘trial’ as former wife seeks child support
By Craig Harris | The Arizona Republic Steve Nash, the Suns former point guard, said Thursday morning on the witness stand in Maricopa County Superior Court that he expects to come back to the Valley after he ends his NBA career. Nash, who now plays for the Los Angeles Lakers and leases a home in [...]
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[OPINION] Growing coalition demands faster shift to renewable energy
By Summit Voice In a peaceful demonstration against energy imperialism, members of Navajo Nation demonstrated the power of solar along the Central Arizona Project canal in Scottsdale, using a large mobile solar-powered generator to run pumps that moved water from the canal into nearby buckets and barrels. “Many Navajo families had to pen their sheep [...]
Read More →[OP-ED] Rosemont facts that you’re not hearing
By Randy Graf, former Arizona State Representative | Sahuarita Sun The Save the Scenic Santa Ritas group recently held an anti-Rosemont Copper forum in Sahuarita. As expected, the audience was barraged with a list of inaccuracies about the project, the impacts it will have on the region and a host of accusations against Rosemont Copper [...]
Read More →New conditions on area wind farm involve birds, wildlife.
By Shar Porier | Bisbee Daily Review After listening to those supporting the Arizona Audubon appeal to add a condition to the special use permit for the Red Horse 2 wind farm, Cochise County Board of Supervisors member Richard Searle suggested six new conditions, which fellow board members approved, leaving the Audubon appeal to be [...]
Read More →APS further delays purchase of Four Corners units
By Patrick O’Grady | Phoenix Business Journal Arizona Public Service Co. is putting off its purchase of two units at the Four Corners Power Plant for the foreseeable future in part because of potential deregulation of electric markets in the state. The power company’s parent, Pinnacle West Capital Corp., said in a filing with the [...]
Read More →SCOTUS takes housing bias case
By Greg Stohr | Bloomberg Businessweek The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether people who file housing discrimination suits must show they were victims of intentional bias, accepting a case that may undercut the Obama administration’s crackdown on the lending industry. The justices Monday agreed to consider an appeal by Mount Holly, New Jersey, which [...]
Read More →[OPINION] It’s too soon to end Arizona’s solar incentives
By Jonathan Thompson | High Country News There may be no better place on the planet to generate solar electricity than Arizona. The entire state shows up as a big red stain on solar radiation maps, and the state’s numerous canals, fallow fields, zombie subdivisions and parking lots — not to mention its nearly 3 [...]
Read More →Choices narrowed for power lines path in Chandler
By Michelle Mitchell | The Arizona Republic Salt River Project has narrowed to two the list of proposed routes of new high-voltage power lines through Chandler. The remaining east-west portion of the proposed routes would bring 230-kV power lines along Hunt Highway or Germann Road, and the north-south portion of the routes would travel along [...]
Read More →Mayors commit to climate plans
By BusinessGreen Almost 50 mayors have committed to make their communities more resilient to droughts, floods, extreme storms and wildfires, arguing that spending on defenses against climate change-related events is more cost-efficient than cleaning up the aftermath. Elected officials from across the country Monday released a one-page plan under the Resilient Communities for America (RC4A) [...]
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Nevada can now dispense medical marijuana
By Matt Woolbright|Bloomberg After 13 years of waiting, medical marijuana patients in Nevada will soon have a legal way to obtain the drug without growing it themselves, AP reports. Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval signed SB374 into law Wednesday. The measure establishes the framework to make pot available to medical marijuana cardholders, imposing fees and requirements [...]
Read More →EXCLUSIVE: Rural area fears of medical marijuana averted with enactment of SB1098
By Justin Allsop, Rose Law Group Law Clerk For many, passing the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act in 2010 was a step in the right direction, although the law was not without its detractors. Regardless, one provision of that law has been a major concern for rural counties – A.R.S. § 36.2804.02(f). Under this provision, patients [...]
Read More →Digital medical marijuana [VIDEO]
By Christina Estes | KTAR At first glance you might call it a vending machine, but Todd Davis said it’s much more secure. “You swipe your card, it allows you access into the room, the door locks behind you and have a dispensing machine sitting there. You swipe your card again, it verifies you are [...]
Read More →Medical marijuana users can toke easier; ballot challenge dead
By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services| Arizona Daily Star The state’s more than 38,000 medical marijuana users are in no danger of losing their medication, at least not at the ballot box. Rep. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, said Wednesday that he cannot drum up enough legislative support for his bid to ask voters next [...]
Read More →Firm’s business is growing like a weed
Weed is a big business. Ghost Group, a venture capital firm located in Newport Beach, California, is raising a fund to provide people with an opportunity to invest in the growing (ha) marijuana industry. Ghost Group manages two funds. The latest is called Emerald Ocean Capital and will invest in companies and technology in the [...]
Read More →IRS aims power at medical marijuana businesses
By Ariel Shearer | The Huffington Post The tea party has company. For the past several years, the Internal Revenue Service has been systematically targeting medical marijuana establishments, relying on an obscure statute that gives the taxing agency unintended power. The IRS has been functioning as an arm of justice, employing the U.S. tax code [...]
Read More →Lawsuit seeks more time to open medical marijuana dispensaries
By Yvonne Wingett Sanchez | The Arizona Republic Eleven Arizona non-profit corporations are suing the state, seeking additional time to open medical-marijuana dispensaries. Last August, the state Department of Health Services randomly selected the non-profits to receive the dispensary-registration certificates required to operate dispensaries. Under state rules, each has one year to then qualify for [...]
Read More →Gilbert’s 1st medical marijuana dispensary prepares to open under city restrictions
By Parker Leavitt | The Arizona Republic Gilbert’s first medical-marijuana dispensary is preparing to open in an industrial park near Elliot and McQueen roads, behind Mesquite High School in the town’s northwestern corner. D.R.H. Enterprises, a company based in the West Valley, is nearing completion of a dispensary in the Elliot Commerce Park, and officials [...]
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