Phoenix restaurateur Sam Fox is stepping away from Fox Restaurant Concepts seven years after selling the company to The Cheesecake Factory. He is shifting his focus to Author & Edit Hospitality, the Phoenix-based company behind The Global Ambassador hotel in Arcadia and The Twelve Thirty Club in Nashville. “When I opened my first restaurant in Tucson, I was a college … [More]
Architecture Firm behind Rocket Lab Headquarters Opens Phoenix Office
Hendy, an interior architecture and strategic workplace firm, has opened its Phoenix office, bringing its expertise in designing complex, high-performance environments and mapping specialized workflows to one of the nation’s principal hubs for manufacturing, semiconductor production, aerospace and AI infrastructure. The office marks Hendy’s first expansion beyond California … [More]
Phoenix Medtech Firm Launches Healthcare Startup Accelerator
EmeraNova, a Phoenix-based medical technology company specializing in advanced tissue restoration technologies, is amplifying its mission to seek out new innovations and bring them to market through the launch of Catalyst. Catalyst, an EmeraNova Accelerator, is a four-month accelerator designed for startups at the frontier of tissue restoration and advanced wound care, which … [More]
National Design Firm with 30-Year Phoenix Presence Names Co-CEOs
Multistudio, an employee-owned national architecture, design, and planning practice with a studio in Phoenix, announced the appointment of Amanda Harper and Dan Zeller, AIA, as Co-CEOs. The new shared leadership model positions the firm for its next phase of growth while preserving the entrepreneurial, multidisciplinary, and community-focused approach that has defined … [More]
Arizona Engineering Firm Taps $100M Business Veteran as COO
Meade Engineering has appointed Amit Sahdev, PE, as Chief Operating Officer, marking a significant milestone in the firm's 36-year history. Sahdev joined on Oct. 19 and plans to relocate from Houston to Arizona to lead the firm's engineering organization and help shape its next phase of growth. Sahdev will initially oversee the firm's engineering organization, focusing on … [More]
Arizona Consumers Keep Spending, but How Long Can It Last?
Arizona’s rising retail sales and household incomes are supporting business activity, but growing debt and thinner savings are raising questions about how long consumers can sustain that spending. National Bank of Arizona’s Fall 2026 Economic Briefing finds an economy still benefiting from consumer demand, alongside signs that more households are borrowing to cover everyday … [More]
Data Center Growth Drives Electrical Contractor’s 94,000-SF Chandler Lease
Ryan Companies US, Inc. together with Principal Asset Management, announces it has secured major leasing commitments at Queens Crossing at Chandler Airpark, a Class-A industrial business park totaling 437,547 square feet across three buildings in Chandler, Arizona. Building A, encompassing 94,072 square feet, has been leased in its entirety to OEG, a premier electrical and … [More]
Arizona-Founded Fintech Platform Secures $12M for Expansion
Pathfinder Card, a financial technology platform built to simplify how families access and use Education Savings Account (ESA) funds, today announced a $12 million Series A led by Portage Ventures, with participation from Reach Capital, Gradient and Stand Together Ventures Lab. The round brings Pathfinder’s total funding to $16 million, including a $4 million seed round co-led … [More]
$372M Scottsdale Resort Sale Closes at $104M above 2022 Purchase Price
Braemar Hotels & Resorts Inc. has completed the $372 million sale of the 210-room Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North to global investment firm Sixth Street, closing a transaction that will help fund the seller’s separation from its external advisor, Ashford Inc. The price amounts to approximately $1.8 million per room. The closing follows the sale agreement … [More]
National Cloud Operator Acquires Phoenix Firm’s U.S. VMware Business
Expedient, a Cloud Service Provider delivering Intelligent Infrastructure for the AI era, announced it has acquired the U.S. managed VMware cloud business of phoenixNAP, a Phoenix-based global IT services provider. The transaction covers phoenixNAP's managed VMware cloud services business and Veeam-based backup and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) business, serving U.S. … [More]
