Arizona is playing a growing role in a global challenge: managing the enormous amount of data created every day. From smart devices to virtual meetings to online shopping, data is now at the heart of how businesses operate, as well as how people live and work. Behind all of it are data centers that store, process and move digital information around the clock. Several powerful … [More]
Strong AI Demand Pushes TSMC toward Its Next Phase in Arizona
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is having a moment, and Arizona is watching closely. The world’s largest contract chipmaker reported a 35% jump in fourth-quarter profit, beating market expectations and capping a year of record performance driven largely by demand for advanced chips used in artificial intelligence. At the same time, TSMC signaled that its U.S. … [More]
DSV Builds Its Largest Arizona Facility in Mesa
This month, DSV began construction on a nearly 1 million-square-foot logistics facility in Mesa, equipped with state-of-the-art technology and sustainable design elements, including solar panels, just east of Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. “DSV’s investment in a new 950,000-square-foot facility in southeast Mesa is a major vote of confidence in our region’s growing role in … [More]
Semiconductor Chemicals Firm Targets Casa Grande for Next Arizona Facility
Arizona’s chip growth is no longer confined to the City of Phoenix and its immediate suburbs
Arizona’s semiconductor growth is starting to show up in places beyond the major fab sites. Increasingly, it is appearing in land transactions, rail-served sites and industrial facilities built to support large-scale manufacturing. One of the clearest signals of that shift came in late December, when Sunlit Arizona purchased 40 acres in Casa Grande for a planned hydrofluoric … [More]
Retail Isn’t Back — It’s Evolved: Inside Commercial Development’s Weirdest, Smartest Year Yet
For years, commercial retail development lived under a single, exhausting headline: Is retail dead? In 2026, the answer is finally clear — and it’s neither yes nor no. Retail didn’t “come back.” It evolved. Nowhere is that evolution more visible than in Arizona, where population growth, climate realities and relentless suburban expansion have turned the state into a … [More]
