Arizona Builders Alliance (ABA) with the help of construction industry workers across the state helped make a difference in the lives of over 3,000 children in need this holiday season through the 15th Annual Community Service Board's 2024 Toy Drive. Over 150 Arizona construction companies and individuals collected the mountain of toys, gifts, and approximately $45,000 in … [More]
Arizona Builders Deliver Thousands of Toys to Kids in Need
Arizona’s 2nd largest toy drive brought holiday cheer to children across the state
2024’s Most Popular (and Most Unusual) Home Searches Revealed
This year, Zillow enhanced its natural language search feature, allowing home shoppers to search for their next home as naturally as they would speak to family or friends. Buyers and renters can use everyday language instead of preset filters to search by commute time, affordability and nearby schools or points of interest. This new feature showed what Americans were … [More]
Phoenix Selects Arizona-Based Architectural Firm for Resource Innovation Campus
Phoenix City Council selected Arizona-based architectural firm Krause as the winner of the C40 Cities Reinventing Cities Initiative to develop Phoenix’s Resource Innovation Campus. The Council voted to enter into a contract with Arizona-based architectural firm Krause to develop Phoenix’s Resource Innovation Campus. Through its design, Krause and their collaborators will … [More]
Multi-Year Agreement Brings Industry-Leading Technology to Nearly 400 Pickleball Franchises
Pickleball Kingdom, the world's largest indoor pickleball entity, announced a partnership with PodPlay Technologies that will bring PodPlay's best-in-class technology to Pickleball Kingdom's fast-growing network of franchises. PodPlay delivers a seamless pickleball experience from check-in to match highlights by integrating hardware-enabled features like user-initiated video … [More]
Most Entrepreneurial States in 2024; See Where Arizona Ranks
As 2024 concludes, a new report aimed to identify where the most hard-working Americans live, and it is not necessarily the richest or the poorest states. Utah ranked as the most entrepreneurial state, with Arizona and Texas following closely behind in second and third positions. On the other hand, Montana, South Dakota, and Alaska displayed the least enthusiasm in starting a … [More]
SBA Announced Upcoming Launch of the 2025 Growth Accelerator Fund Competition
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced the upcoming launch of the 2025 Growth Accelerator Fund Competition (GAFC) for entrepreneur support organizations (ESOs) focused on innovation-driven startups and entrepreneurs in underserved regions, industries, and communities to launch, grow, and scale. The competition strengthens ESO capacity, builds connections, and … [More]
Phoenix Community Alliance Announces 2024 Center City Award Winners
Every year since 1993, Downtown Phoenix’s premier business leadership and advocacy organization, Phoenix Community Alliance (PCA), thoughtfully hand-selects luminaries who have positively contributed to and impacted Downtown Phoenix’s continuous transformation and presents them with a Center City Award. For 2024, PCA is pleased to announce that Catrina Kahler, Billy Shields, … [More]
P.B. Bell Names New CEO
P.B. Bell, a leading multifamily real estate company, recently appointed Justin Steltenpohl as its new CEO, effective Jan. 1, 2025. This announcement comes alongside other recent leadership hires and appointments, showcasing the company’s commitment to ensuring its continued success and longevity. Chapin Bell, the owner of the company, will remain involved as Chairman of P.B. … [More]
