John Berry, Wendy Riddell and Ryan Rosensteel recently formed Berry Riddell & Rosensteel, with the goal of becoming Arizona’s premier boutique real estate law firm.   The firm provides a full array of services to developers, owners, brokers and others involved in real estate transactions, including land use and planning, financing, development, leasing and … [More]

Continuum Science & Technology Park in Chandler’s Price Corridor has located its first major company, Nationstar Mortgage. Nationstar is one of the nation’s leading mortgage servicers and lenders. Nationstar will be placing 1,200 new jobs in 160,000 SF of space, with an option to expand.  The company is currently occupying temporary space in the same building as tenant … [More]

The Phoenix business community has already experienced several tragedies, with the first workplace shooting of the year in January, and the most recent incident involving a personal relationship issue erupting into another workplace shooting. Though the circumstances leading to these violent outbreaks differ, business owners and human resources professionals can learn from them … [More]

Tomorrow, May 29, the Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC) will host a forum featuring some of its locates, or businesses that GPEC and its partners have assisted in expanding or relocating to the Greater Phoenix region. The companies, who have relocated or expanded from Minnesota, New York, Canada and the Netherlands, will discuss their decision to establish a presence … [More]

Bryan Laurel and Melissa Rich, the two top-ranking marketing executives at Harkins Theatres, left the theatre chain to form their own PR firm – Syndicate Public Relations. Additionally, Laurel and Rich are proud to announce they will handle all publicity efforts for the Scottsdale International Film Festival, which celebrates its 13th year in October. Syndicate PR … [More]

It can sometimes be frustrating for small business owners to navigate the application process on small business loans. The Arizona Bankers Association (AzBA) convened a group of East Valley small-business owners and local bank executives to attempt to bridge that gap on Friday, May 17. The event was designed to help small business owners better position themselves to obtain … [More]

Jobs, home prices and population growth are all slowly rebounding in Arizona. However, experts from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University say we still have a long way to go, and the automatic federal budget cuts known as the sequester aren’t helping our momentum. The experts delivered their forecasts today at the annual Economic Outlook Luncheon … [More]

The International Economic Development Council (IEDC) announces that Gilbert, Arizona has been recognized as the first Arizona economic development organization, the second municipality and one of just 35 economic development organizations in the nation accredited by IEDC as an Accredited Economic Development Organization (AEDO). “The Gilbert Office of Economic Development … [More]

In a poll released today by their leading association, small-business owners overwhelmingly oppose the high-stakes effort at the Arizona State Capitol to expand Medicaid coverage to all Arizonans at or below 133 percent of the federal poverty level as envisioned by the federal health-care law. The recent survey conducted by the National Federation of Independent Business … [More]

On May 7, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit struck down the final rule issued by the National Labor Relations Board on August 30, 2011, which would have required that all employers subject to the NLRB’s jurisdiction post a prescribed notice to employees and also place the notice on their intranets or web pages if they use such tools to … [More]