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• 6 Marana, OV projects up for awards
  Aug 26, 2010 — The Arizona Daily Star
  ...-- Six Oro Valley and Marana town projects are finalists for Common Ground Awards. The Metropolitan Pima Alliance, a group dedicated to growth in Pima County, annually recognizes community leaders, projects and events that promote collaboration. They are recognized with Common Ground Awards. This year's winners will be announced Oct. 15 at an awards celebration at Reid Park Zoo. Four Marana projects and two Oro Valley projects are up for the awards. Oro Valley's...
• Spending stance drives most Chandler council hopefuls
  Aug 11, 2010 — East Valley Tribune
  City hall is needed, but the city should have waited for better economic times and spent perhaps half as much. The Arizona Avenue project is without merit and the money should have been diverted to other projects, Taylor said. He'd invest more money for officers on the street. Chandler's primary election is Aug. 24.
• North End corridor study moves forward
  Aug 4, 2010 — The Yuma Daily Sun
  The state enabled incentive would allow a developer to abate property taxes for up to eight years in the early years of a business when cash flow is low.
• GOP treasurer candidates' views similar
  Jul 28, 2010 — The Arizona Daily Star
  While Ducey has said managing that portfolio is Job One, he thinks the treasurer should be involved in economic development, job creation and fostering entrepreneurship. At times, he's sounded more like someone running for governor than treasurer. But taking on economic development would stretch the treasurer thin while putting the endowment at risk, she said. "That is not the role of the state treasurer.
• EDITORIAL: Our View
  Jul 18, 2010 — East Valley Tribune
  Arizona had 91,484 properties -- one in every 30 homes -- impacted by foreclosure in the first half of the year. Brewer wants the Legislature to OK her plan to transform the department into the Arizona Commerce Authority with more focus on economic development and finding ways to generate more high-paying jobs in the state. But they face an uphill battle in claiming the attention of voters as Arizona prepares to implement SB 1070.
• Recession makes East Valley a retail black hole
  Jul 13, 2010 — East Valley Tribune
  Shopping plazas will recover as residents return to empty homes, Josker said. But the recession will have doomed some plazas. But that's jumped to 13 percent partially because Bashas' shuttered four stores in its bankruptcy reorganization, Mackay said. That's helped bring life to mostly vacant centers, Mackay said.
• Builders now pay to power new homes
  Jul 11, 2010 — The Arizona Daily Star
  Builders had until May of this year to enter a contract with TEP to get power to their developments under those regulations. Shortly after, LeCocq said he realized he was going to have to pay for power lines to get electricity to the homes. Had that not happened, those projects would likely have stalled, he said. Builders argue that given current housing conditions, the ACC should reconsider its decision.
• Perks 'tipping point' to lure firms
  Jul 11, 2010 — The Arizona Daily Star
  Marana, is the first company to participate in Marana's program. Right now, Tucson doesn't have a general incentive package like Marana's. Instead it examines each situation case by case, said Nicole Ewing Gavin, assistant to the city manager. City staffers are working with TREO for a more comprehensive approach, Ewing Gavin said. But times are tough in the public sector, so any cuts in revenue that result from incentives can't be too deep, she said. "We have to...
• EDITORIAL: City Council's major decisions make serving a weighty task: Our view
  Jul 5, 2010 — The Arizona Daily Star
  If not, what's your solution to balancing the city budget? Kozachik: The question assumes a sales tax is the solution to balancing the city budget. In fact, the budget presented by the city manager was "balanced" by assuming the sale of $10 million in land and the sale/lease-back of $14.7 million in city assets. The sales tax was not relied upon for a balanced 2011 budget. There are structural problems in the budget.
• TREO increases business input, role
  Jul 4, 2010 — The Arizona Daily Star
  TREO -- is now seeking to increase the role of local business leaders in the public private partnership. The effort so far has been successful, said Joe Snell, TREO's president and CEO. "At the end of the day, the private sector votes with their money," Snell said. "And if they don't see a value they're not going to do this." About half of TREO's $2.4 million budget for this fiscal year will come from the business community, Snell said. Previously, TREO relied heavily on...