Desert Viking Development’s new project, The Blocks of Roosevelt Row, will see the adaptive reuse of three bungalow-style homes and the prominent Flowers building, and construction of a new, three-story commercial building. The project to revitalize a portion of the Roosevelt Row Arts District is set to be completed in fall 2017, with portions delivering earlier next spring. … [More]
Lookin’ Good on Chat
Video chat platforms like Skype have become one of the main settings for interviews, but one big problem standing in the way of both recruiters and interviewees has been the quality of video lighting. Chatlight is a simple, lightweight LED light that connects to a smartphone, tablet or computer to help create studio-type lighting during Skype and video interviews, so chat … [More]
Act-ivate Texts
Scottsdale-based Swiftpage, the maker of Act!, has released SMS4Act! Act! helps individuals, small businesses, and sales teams organize prospect and customer details in one place, and send emails, market products and services more effectively. This newest Connection available to Act! Premium subscribers enables them to send text messages directly from Act! Premium. Proven to be … [More]
Savings for Small Business
SRP is the oldest multipurpose federal reclamation project in the United States. It has been serving central Arizona since 1903, nearly 10 years before Arizona became the 48th state. As part of its commitment to our community, SRP has a website dedicated to helping businesses save on energy costs. It offers information on rebates and energy savings, and provides energy tools … [More]
Vote Like Your Healthcare Depends on It
Welcome to the Silly Season. It’s easy to get caught up in the hysterics of the campaign and forget there are real things at stake this election. Healthcare is one of the biggest. Arizonans in recent months have seen first-hand the massive changes occurring throughout our industry. The trend of hospital consolidation continues apace, and not always to the benefit of patients … [More]
Collaboration the Allbound Way
Allbound enters the technology field as an industry disruptor in indirect sales for the technology industry. The biggest thing happening in the tech industry now is customer success, according to Scott Salkin, Allbound founder and CEO, who points out that we are moving to a subscription economy. “We are consuming things in pieces, even things that are not technology,” he says. … [More]
Stay for Business
Tempe Town Lake has grown up as one of Greater Phoenix’s strong business centers, anchored in large part by the much-talked-about State Farm corporate center. Marriott recently opened its AC Hotel a little way down the shoreline with an eye to the needs of the business traveler (and conveniently also serving visitors to the neighboring ASU campus). The sleek and modern … [More]
Hot Market for Craft Brews
“Arizona is becoming a hot bed around the country for the craft beer industry,” observes Chad Eby, who, with his wife, Amy, this past summer opened The Casual Pint in Chandler. They are the first to bring the fast-growing franchise west of the Mississippi. The Casual Pint is both market and pub, with more than 300 types of beer on the retail side and an ever-changing selection … [More]
Hiring via Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing to find top-quality candidates to fill open positions? Why not. This is what Reflik does, tapping into its extensive network of recruiters and industry professionals with innovative technology to quickly crowdsource top talent. And the cash reward to individuals who make a successful referral averages $10,000. … [More]
In the e-Zone
EZONES gets employees into their high performance zone. A video and media content delivery platform, it optimizes and distributes any content, to any device. It also has a vast library of curated video content that, through its proprietary channels, can complement a business’s existing media on various platforms and for most popular devices. Uses include employee communication, … [More]
Stack and Show
SkillStacks from CabinetM, a marketing technology discovery and management platform, enables digital marketers to build personal marketing technology stacks for showcasing their marketing technology expertise. It helps enterprises discover specialized talent within their organization quickly and easily across departments and regional teams. And it lets recruiters identify and … [More]
Global Opportunities Seen
Videos made available through the Global Chamber are helping businesspeople understand and become more informed on areas of global opportunity. Through a series of videos — including this with Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki, president of the America-Japan Society — the chamber offers what are being dubbed “must-see” videos on manufacturing, retail, healthcare and more. Subjects … [More]
First Post-Recession Medical Office Spec
The Arrowhead Orchards medical office development in Glendale is the first MOB spec project in the Valley since the recession. The property owner, Arrowhead Health Center, LLC, an entity affiliated with Legend Real Estate Management, Inc., has begun developing 22,700 square feet of new product. CBRE’s Vince Femiano, who, with Katie Kelley, will be responsible for the … [More]
Walmart Supercenter Rises at Metrocenter Mall
Construction began at Phoenix’s Metrocenter Mall this past summer on a Walmart Supercenter. The approximately 148,000-square-foot Walmart, slated to open next spring, represents the single largest capital investment in Metrocenter Mall in decades. Metrocenter Mall opened in 1973 as the biggest shopping center in Arizona and one of the largest nationwide. Recent years saw … [More]
Captives Can Help Contain Costs
Business risk is on the rise — from the danger of a cyber-attack to the potential failure of a crucial supplier halfway around the globe. In response, companies are increasingly creating their own insurance companies to mitigate those risks. A “captive insurer” is a company that provides coverage solely to the firm or group of firms that sets it up. Captives have long … [More]
Tech Award for ASU
The New Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication recently won the National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation’s Excellence in Innovative Technology Award, which honors students who are driving innovation in the media industry. The lab offers Cronkite students the opportunity … [More]
Trello: Project Management App
Trello is a new app that can help manage any given project. Whether it’s managing a team, writing an epic screenplay or just making a grocery list, Trello helps the user get things done and stay organized. Trello provides the user a perspective over all of his or her projects, at work and at home. … [More]
Slack Is Not for the Slacker
Slack is designed to make team communication easy. The collaboration tool in this app allows users to interface and communicate on projects, share files, drop files in the cloud and more. By setting up integration directly within Slack, rather than switching between other apps, all data is searchable in one central archive. … [More]
