By Roland Murphy | Arizona Builder’s Exchange
2018 was an excellent year, if not quite as excellent as experts predicted at the outset. 2019 will also be excellent, if, perhaps, somewhat less so than the year that preceded it. After that, things will taper off, but it won’t be another end of the world scenario.
Such was the theme of the AZBEX 2019 Construction Activity Forecast, held Jan. 10 at the Tempe Center for the Arts. If any of the nearly 300 attendees came expecting bombshell developments about the construction market as a whole or its constituent sectors as areas of specialized interest, they would have left disappointed. If they were not there as thrill seekers hoping for a wild ride up or down, they left reassured and, perhaps, even optimistic about the year to come.
In her opening remarks, AZBEX President and Founder Rebekah Morris delivered the news wrapped in a succinct bow by saying, “If 2018 was good, 2019 will be good as well.”
