Arizona's emergence as a hub for semiconductor manufacturing and data center development is altering the commercial real estate landscape, and local title insurers are adapting. Increased Project Scale The scale of today's projects is unlike anything the industry has seen before. Driven by demand in artificial intelligence, cloud computing and advanced manufacturing, data … [More]
Frances Jacquelyne Ducar, Healthcare Solutions Centers
Healthcare remains a critical issue for employers. As a tool for both attraction and retention, healthcare coverage is a high-priority benefit to employees in all age groups. But its place in a business’s profit and loss accounting has evolved beyond strictly a Human Resources concern. After more than 35 years in healthcare, I have learned that the real cost of healthcare is … [More]
Phoenix Employers Need an AI Apprenticeship Scorecard
Greater Phoenix is building a technology economy that needs both automation and a deeper talent bench. In Business Magazine’s August issue puts young workers, AI accountability and the semiconductor workforce in the same conversation. Arizona is also expanding a registered-apprenticeship system that now reaches modern sectors, including semiconductors, cybersecurity, healthcare … [More]
Phoenix Has the Entrepreneurs. They Need Better Places to Grow
Phoenix does not have a shortage of entrepreneurial ambition. What it lacks is enough flexible, professional space for businesses that have outgrown where they started but are not yet ready for the cost and commitment of a traditional commercial lease. That is the gap FlexEtc was built to fill. FlexEtc is a flexible business infrastructure platform that gives entrepreneurs, … [More]
The Power of Staying: What Hospitality Can Learn from a Culture Built for Change
In hospitality, we talk a lot about creating memorable experiences for our guests. But behind every great guest experience is something equally important: a team that feels valued, connected and invested in the place they choose to work. That has become increasingly challenging across our industry. Hospitality is a people business, yet retaining experienced employees and … [More]
Data in Constant Flux? Tech Slashes Updating Time & Effort
Our full-service marketing agency has spent the past year automating how we manage digital advertising for our retail and homebuilder clients, using Fluency, the agentic advertising operating system. Our shift to agentic automation addresses a problem familiar to many agencies: Growth has traditionally required hiring more staff as new clients are onboarded. Our … [More]
The Corporate Gift That Actually Gets Eaten
Most corporate gifts end up in a drawer. A logo mug, a fleece vest, a box of chocolates from three states away. The sender meant well. The recipient forgot by Friday. Popcorn works differently. Open a tin in a break room and people wander over, grab a handful and start talking. The gift gets shared, and the company that sent it becomes part of the conversation. That is the … [More]
Who’s Really Managing Your Healthcare Dollars?
Employers are becoming healthcare purchasers, and the old model of simply trusting the plan may be over
“Most employers know their total healthcare spend, but far fewer understand where those dollars actually go. Healthcare is one of the largest expenses on the P&L, yet it is often one of the least transparent.” Paul Pruitt, co-founder and chief growth officer at SHARx, a prescription advocacy and drug procurement program, succinctly relates what others similarly … [More]
Some Assembly Required: Arizona Builds the Last Step in Chipmaking
Amkor’s Peoria campus and TSMC’s packaging plans aim to finish Arizona-made chips without a trip across the Pacific
When Nvidia and TSMC Arizona marked the first Blackwell wafer produced in Phoenix in October 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called it “the very first time in recent American history that the single most important chip is being manufactured here.” It was a milestone. It was also, in one important sense, unfinished. A wafer is not yet a working chip. Before a processor can … [More]
Arizona’s Chipmakers Bet on Recycled Water as Colorado River Cuts Deepen
Arizona’s semiconductor boom has always come with a question attached: Where will the water come from? That question got sharper on Aug. 21, when the U.S. Department of the Interior issued new operating guidelines for the Colorado River. The decision cuts Lower Basin deliveries by 1.25 million acre-feet in each of the next two years. Arizona’s share is 760,000 acre-feet a … [More]
