The Dealmaker: 7/23/2018

Q&A with Reed Porter, CEO and owner of New Village Homes. From his “austere presentation” days with Trend Homes, to reaching “pre-recession velocity” with CalAtlantic, to his latest venture with New Village Homes, Reed Porter details the journey and shares views on other topics — including advice on raising kids! — in this latest installment of Rose Law Group Reporter’s continuing Q&A series. http://bit.ly/2uJc6Um

Taylor Morrison now has majority-female board. New York Times executive Denise Warren and former Banana Republic Global President Andrea Owen join “homebuilding executive Anne Mariucci and Chairman and CEO Sheryl Palmer,” bringing “Taylor Morrison’s current board makeup to a 4:3 female-to-male ratio, a figure only shared by a handful of U.S publicly traded companies.” AZ Business Magazine. http://bit.ly/2LiXPbp

Landsea Homes launches Arizona division. Tapped to lead the new division is “veteran real estate and current Landsea executive Peter Beucke.” In AZ Business Magazine, Beucke and Landsea CEO John Ho touch on this new division as well as the local homebuilding market. http://bit.ly/2NG2wZl

Phoenix gets $30M grant to remake Edison-Eastlake neighborhood east of downtown. The ‘drastic reshape’ includes “demolishing” three “decrepit public-housing projects” — “Frank Luke Homes, A.L. Krohn Homes and Sidney P. Osborn” — and replacing them with “the new American approach to public housing.” Details in AZCentral. http://bit.ly/2uFaOd9

Phoenix’s Thelda Williams: Always, always, always an interim mayor. Thelda Williams is the “only person in Phoenix history to hold the mayoral title three times and only the second woman to serve at the city’s helm.” AZCentral looks at the civic career of Councilwoman/Interim Mayor Williams who, for “more than 30 years,” has “not only has witnessed the most important moments in Phoenix’s modern history — she’s played a role in most of them.” http://bit.ly/2LxXiBu

[VIDEO] Casa Grande council candidates address growth. “Residents had an opportunity to hear from candidates [at a recent forum] sponsored by the Casa Grande Dispatch and PinalCentral.” And that’s where you can get a recap and WATCH highlights. —> http://bit.ly/2A01hT3

Johnson Utilities now applying to expand plant it planned to close. “When Johnson Utilities announced in June that it would close the troubled Section 11 wastewater treatment plant and construct a Copper Basin Water Reclamation Plant, local activists expressed skepticism.” Now, with JU’s application “for a permit to expand capacity at the Section 11 plant,” it has “become clear the plant won’t close anytime soon.” PinalCentral. http://bit.ly/2NBnZmq

Navajo utility proposes solar project near Cameron. “[L]ast year, the 120,000 photovoltaic solar panels at the Kayenta Solar Plant went operational, becoming the first utility-scale solar plant on the Navajo Nation. Now, just over a year later, the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority that owns the Kayenta plant is pushing ahead with two more solar projects…” Arizona Daily Sun. http://bit.ly/2LxsP6J

2018’s best big cities to live in. “WalletHub compared the 62 largest U.S. cities based on 56 key indicators of attractiveness” — “from the quality of public schools and life expectancy to job opportunities and property taxes.” http://bit.ly/2uWrYCb

Dealmaker BONUS: 7 supertall buildings in the works around the globe. Forbes looks at “seven record-breaking buildings now on the rise — among them, three ‘megatalls’ set to surpass 600 meters [1,968 ft.] and knock longstanding titleholders, including the mighty Burj Khalifa, off their lofty pedestals.” http://bit.ly/2uWxjJL

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