Ron Shoopman recently stepped down from his role as president and CEO of the Southern Arizona Leadership Council for the past 14 years. The organization is comprised of local business executives who want to improve the community’s quality of life through policy work on education, infrastruct…
While there’s no perfect answer to staying fiscally sound when the summer heat blankets Tucson, various businesses in the service industry have adapted to the triple-digit temperatures.
A real estate appraisal commissioned by the Cañada Hills Community Association finds that a partial or full closure of the town-owned golf courses would result in a “significant loss” in home values near the site and an overall negative effect on the community.
After months of neighborhood meetings and several modifications from the Oro Valley Town Council, a local landowner has received the green light to build 77 residential homes near North Oracle Road and West Pusch View Lane.
Economic growth across the nation is expected to take a dip in the coming decade as the population ages and the Baby Boomer generation moves closer to widespread retirement, removing a significant portion of spending power and cash flow from the market.
Oro Valley has a chance to see North Oracle Road restored from one end of town to the other.
The Walmart Neighborhood Market at 3900 W. Ina Road in Marana is set to close on April 19, 2019. According to a Walmart representative, “The decision is based on several factors including the store’s overall performance… We will continue to serve customers in new ways across Arizona through …
A gem show booth must display something new. Whether selling silver, dolomite or muonionalusta, the latest quirk or knick-knack will catch the wandering eye and provide an advantage. If it’s simply crates of loose gems, a mineral mogul may just approach and buy the whole stock for a few thou…
The SCALE UP program launched by Local First Arizona Foundation and Tucson Emerging 2030 District’s initial pilot program helped businesses save money while reducing their carbon footprint by implementing sustainable practices and retrofits.
Territorial-era Tucson was a wholly different world than what we know today, with a few thousand hardy souls back then kicking up dust on unpaved downtown streets waiting for the arrival of the Iron Horse that would begin the transformation of the town into the thriving metropolis it is toda…
A deal that would have reopened the shuttered Club at Vistoso golf course fell through in November, leaving the future of the property in limbo and residents worried.
With a major research university right in our back yard, a strong military presence and innovative companies spread throughout the metro region, there’s often a plethora of interesting science and technology news to be found in Southern Arizona. Here’s a breakdown of the most interesting rec…
Although it’s receiving some tough competition nowadays from border ports in Texas, Arizona’s port of entry in Nogales has held nearly a century-old lock on being the major arrival point for a variety of fresh produce from Mexico into the U.S.
Michael McDonad is the CEO of the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona. He recently spoke to Tucson Local Media about the nature of food insecurity in Southern Arizona, efforts to provide more nutritious food and how many seniors are depending on the food bank.
Downtown’s venerable Tucson Convention Center could be in for a $50 million renovation in the future, at least if Rio Nuevo has its way.
Just like Tucson itself, the upcoming TENWEST Festival is both expanding and thriving. This year boasts more events, speakers and subjects than ever before. To help organize the numerous and diverse events, this year’s schedule is organized into vertical tracks with themed events ranging fro…
With murals, open-mics and agave-infused breweries on nearly every street corner downtown, it can often seem you’re walking right through the middle of Tucson’s essence. But Hotel McCoy is taking it a step further. The upcoming “art hotel” on Tucson’s west side hopes to allow patrons to spen…
Raytheon gets bigger. Caterpillar comes to town. Amazon to build and hire thousands. Southern Arizona isn’t doing too bad lately in the big-name department.
The nation’s new tariffs on imported steel are risking an industry near and dear to Tucson: breweries.
One Oro Valley senior exclaimed “It’s like Christmas!” as a Comcast representative wheeled in a table piled with free laptops.
Last month, Gov. Doug Ducey signed House Bill 2022, funding just over $2 million to the Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and Blind.
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It’s a brilliant time to purchase new or existing real estate in Pima County, according to experts within the industry.
Thirteen is proving to be a lucky number for everyone connected with Mercado San Agustín—with 13 vendors in the initial site and another 13 in the Annex, a new (and unique-for-Tucson) shopping center that will hold an official grand opening the weekend of May 4.
Sundays are busy at Buffalo Exchange. Customers stream in, hoping to score Diesel jeans or a vintage dress. They move between colorful racks of secondhand western shirts and J.Crew blouses from last steason. There’s a room for women’s shoes with a healthy selection of Stetsons; an activewear…
Oro Valley is working to position itself more favorably in the eyes of science and technology companies looking for a new base of operations.
The Marana Chamber’s plans for Spring of 2018 include the same principles that have carried us this far: our caring and friendly culture, our willingness to think out of the box, and our continued mission to be the voice of business that works to build economic growth and quality of life in …
Kinder Morgan, the largest energy infrastructure company in North America with some 84,000 miles of pipeline, is making its increased presence known in Southern Arizona—to the tune of pretty close to $100 million dollars in on-going and planned projects.
You can learn some things about your community by standing on a street corner in a Girl Scout cookie costume, holding a sign to lure motorists toward free coffee and pastries.
Our plans for 2018 include the same principles that have carried us this far: our caring and friendly culture, our willingness to think out of the box and our continued mission to be the voice of business that works to build economic growth and quality of life in our community.
Since 1933, Congress has passed a bipartisan Farm Bill that supports America’s agriculture producers every five years. With the next farm bill due before the end of September, I invited my colleague, Congressman Collin Peterson to join me for two listening sessions in Casa Grande and Tucson …
Amber Smith sat in her husband’s truck in the White Mountains on a cold October morning. The 4 a.m. start didn’t bother her as much as the nine-mile hike to pack out the elk her husband had shot. She’d already done it once, and she didn’t want to do it again.
The majority of startup businesses fail within the first five years. However, three local tech companies are determined to beat the odds. Codelucida, Emagine Solutions, and Reglagene are receiving help from UA and the Arizona Center for Innovation to succeed in the business world. And all th…
Arizona received its second bump in minimum wage this year as a result of 2016’s Proposition 206, but the unemployment impact predicted by most economists has yet to take hold.
The future is bright for Southern Arizona and the nation as a whole, according to local economists like George Hammond and Anthony Chan.
The facilitator at a recent, well-attended Oro Valley public forum asked the audience of perhaps 75 people how many had an Amazon Prime account.
Just as many of you paused to give thanks last month, at the Marana Chamber of Commerce we, too, are reflecting on a bountiful year and are looking ahead to an even better 2018.
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The main theme heard from the halo of the dais at Desert Diamond Casino last Wednesday night was clear: Excellence in leadership takes a team.
A striking statue of a dying horseman, crafted in fiberglass by the late, acclaimed Luis Jimenez, has long languished in a distant downstairs gallery in the Tucson Museum of Art.
The Hilton Tucson El Conquistador Golf & Tennis Resort removed an upcoming immigration conference hosted by the VDARE Foundation, a nonprofit organization labeled by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a white nationalist hate group.
Welcome to the final week of the high school football regular season, where teams will make a last-ditch effort to either make or improve their standing in the state playoffs.
How do you frame a game against an opponent that beat you worse than any team since the Truman administration as a coach?
The downtown area just opened up its first major hotel in decades.
The following email was released by Thunder Canyon Brewery owner Steve Tracy Thursday, Sept. 21:
When we think of Tucson and the northwest area, do we think the area has developed from the future or do we think the area has developed from the past?
As the commercial real estate market improves across the nation, Tucson is following suit.
Local First Arizona has advocated on behalf of Tucson’s locally owned businesses since 2008, when the first Southern Arizona office opened.
Arizona’s economy continues to rise in recovery of the Great Recession, but as always with economic forecasts, not everything is optimistic. Arizona still has a way to go before returning to pre-recession levels.
The Ina Road Overpass project is well underway, but there are still nearly two years of construction left. With so much of the area torn up, it can be difficult to envision what the finished area will look like, but thanks to an ADOT artist’s rendering, we can start to see why all the hassle…
Even at an event specifically honoring her, Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert has a way of transforming her own success into hope and encouragement for current and aspiring executives and entrepreneurs during the 2017 University of Arizona Executive of the Year luncheon.
