Katie and Gregg Dufort created Puzzle Rides, a mobile escape room-style scavenger hunt, in the middle of the pandemic. When their Old Town golf cart taxi service got shut down in 2020 because of coronavirus, the couple pivoted to bring one-of-a-kind experiences to the city. Puzzle Rides is an adventure game where players are taken on a scavenger hunt via golf cart and must use … [More]
Designing for Senior Communities – The Revel Brand
Six years ago, we began concepting a new type of senior community with the goal of reinventing the look and feel of senior living. Our team’s design backgrounds mainly included experience in market-rate multifamily properties, high-concept leasing and cultural galleries, and hospitality, so we approached senior living with zero pre-conceived notions. We started the process by … [More]
Phoenix Data Center Numbers Are High
Phoenix, which has been one of the nation’s strongest-performing data center markets for the past many years, continues to shine. Thanks to our booming population, a mix of cloud, social media and technology companies are all vying for space here. This keeps demand always ahead of supply, even within the Valley’s significant inventory of Class A data center product. This … [More]
George Oliver’s Arbor to Bring ‘Urban Organic’ to Downtown Tempe
Downtown Tempe is one of the nation’s most dynamic office markets and the perfect location for the Arbor’s high-touch design concept and unmatched amenity base. It is exactly what users are asking for as they reoccupy their office spaces. We pulled great inspiration from the Mill Avenue landscape for our development and will be including Instagram artwork features and a signage … [More]
Camelot Homes Plans Three Luxury Communities in Scottsdale
Camelot Homes recently closed on the purchase of three parcels of land in Scottsdale, with plans to break ground this year on three new luxury gated enclaves with a combined total of 29 homes: Aura, on 8.5 acres at the southeast corner of 128th Street and Shea Boulevard; The Collection, on 4.7 acres at the northeast corner of 74th Street and Valley View Road; and Legacy at D.C. … [More]
MAK Homes’ New South Mountain Community Celebrates Area History
Designed by MAK Homes, Heard Farm is an intimate 24-home community offering modern farmhouse- styled homes focused on sustainable living and intently echoing the agricultural history of this property. The five unique home designs of Heard Farm are in direct response to the agricultural context of the South Mountain area focusing on simplicity and elegance. The Heard Farm home … [More]
Landsea Homes Breaking Ground on Communities East and West
Landsea Homes recently broke ground on three new communities in Arizona: El Cidro in Goodyear, 201 homes featuring the small-town charm of single-family homes; Rev at Eastmark, offering 90 modern single-family homes in Landsea Homes’s newest neighborhood in the Eastmark master plan in Mesa; and The Villages at North Copper Canyon in Surprise, 315 one- and two-story … [More]
Jennifer Reynolds, Building Success in the Design Industry
Since 2004, Ideation Design Group has partnered with the world’s largest brands to execute their vision into functional works of art that deliver innovation through design. At the helm is Jennifer Reynolds, a design industry dynamo responsible for building the powerhouse firm from the ground up. Her illustrious career can be summed up in two words: passion and perseverance. … [More]
Keep Employees Healthy by Maintaining a Tidy Office
In nearly all work environments, there are two types of desks: the ones that are clean and organized, and others that have papers and leftover food wrappers cluttering the desktop. A dirty office can lead to a loss in productivity as employees worry about their health and lose focus on their daily tasks. The average office keyboard has 400 times more bacteria on it than a … [More]
Well-Being Transformation Initiative in South Phoenix
Equality Health Foundation, UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Arizona, and Valley of the Sun United Way recently launched a new Blue Zones Activate effort, a comprehensive policy-based initiative that uses an evidence-based approach to make the healthy choice the easy choice in all the places people spend the most time. The 15-year gap in life expectancy between South … [More]
Growing Responsive Fundraising at Scale
We created Virtuous in 2014 to provide nonprofit organizations with a platform to grow generosity and build donor relationships through responsive fundraising. We’ve since become the fastest-growing nonprofit CRM and have been adding more tools to the platform to support the entire giving experience, whether that’s with a donor or a volunteer. Most giving is driven by a … [More]
Business Owners Can Reap the Many Rewards of Automating Payables
The accounts payable (AP) process can look very different depending on the size and nature of an organization. Especially if a business is experiencing growth, is in the middle of a busy season, or working to close out annual reporting, the thought “There must be an easier way to do this” has probably been discussed. Or an organization may be preparing a budget and business … [More]
Email Marketing That Doesn’t Suck
In Email Marketing That Doesn’t Suck, Harvard Law-grad-turned-online-entrepreneur Bobby Klinck uses his lawyering skills to convince readers that the old-school rules for email marketing are just plain dumb. He shows how to do email right, teaching the five phases of email marketing and how to infuse purpose into one’s message. Readers will learn how to tell a really good story … [More]
Storytelling for Business
“Nothing connects people to engage emotionally with your business better than a well-told story — your story.” From mega-large corporations to tiny startups, every … single … business always has a story to tell. Before people choose to buy one’s product or service, or respond to a call to action, they need to understand how that product or service will solve their problem or … [More]
No Business Is Too Small For Digital Marketing
With everything else businesses have to do for their customers, they also need to communicate with those customers to retain them and market their business to potential new customers. And in the digital age, there are dozens of new and ever-changing ways to accomplish those things. Who has time for it? Who even understands what needs to be done? Author Jon Martinsen has guided … [More]
Beyond Cyberattacks: Ransomware Readiness and Recovery
There were seven people seated around the table: the CEO, the VP, the CFO, the Special Agent from the FBI, the owner, the forensics technician and the company’s CISO (Chief Information Security Officer). “Don’t pay,” was the CEO’s vote. Same for the VP. “Pay it,” was the owner’s response. The CFO nodded in agreement. “Paying could be a violation of federal law,” … [More]
Successful Healthcare Real Estate Investment
Stock market uncertainty resulting from Russia’s war in Ukraine has many investors looking for options yielding better returns. Real estate has historically provided excellent profit, especially in recent years with apartments and industrial facilities, including distribution and data centers, in high demand to keep up with explosive growth in the Phoenix area. Because … [More]
Firm Ownership Now Open to Non-Lawyers
The Arizona Supreme Court last year enacted sweeping rules that revolutionize the practice of law in Arizona. While the general rule across the United States was that only lawyers could own and share profits in law firms, Arizona took a bold approach in turning that rule on its head, now allowing non-lawyers to own, profit from and participate in the management of law firms. … [More]
