‘Mr.: You Can Hear the Song of This Town’ Closes This Sunday at Phoenix Art Museum

Don’t miss your last chance to experience Mr.: You Can Hear the Song of This Town before it closes this Sunday, March 12. The immersive special-engagement exhibition explores the vivid, chaotic, and manga-inspired world of one of today’s most popular Japanese artists. Mr.: You Can Hear the Song of This Town showcases the imaginative and visually complex works […]

Dance Heginbotham to Present Performance Full of Athleticism, Humor, Theatricality 

Dance Heginbotham will perform an evening of work in collaboration with Ethan Iverson, the critically acclaimed jazz composer, pianist and founding member of The Bad Plus, at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts on March 25. Dance Heginbotham has established itself as one of the most adventurous and exciting new companies on the contemporary dance […]

San Francisco Multifamily Investor Acquires Community in Phoenix

San Francisco-based real estate firm Hamilton Zanze (HZ) has acquired the 296-unit Springs at Deer Valley apartment community in Phoenix. The purchase marks the firm’s seventh property in their current portfolio in the state of Arizona. The community will be rebranded as the Ironwood at Happy Valley apartments. The property was marketed by Walker & […]

Rents Drop to Lowest Level in a Year, Says Report

The median U.S. asking rent rose 1.7% year over year to $1,937 in February—the smallest increase in nearly two years and the lowest level in a year, according to a new report from Redfin, the technology-powered real estate brokerage. Rents were up nearly 10 times that much (16.5%) a year earlier. February was the ninth […]

Phoenix Nonprofit Names New CEO with Unique History

For the first 14 years of her life, Carrie Masters was in and out of homelessness, surrounded by drug addiction and relying on programs through UMOM and the Thomas J. Pappas School. She now is the newly-appointed, first-ever female CEO of St. Joseph the Worker (SJW), a Phoenix nonprofit with a mission to assist homeless, […]

Scottsdale-Based Customer Relationship Management Co. Aligns with Small Business Organizations

Scottsdale-based Act!, a leading customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation solution for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), announced it has joined the Small Business Digital Alliance (SBDA), the public-private co-sponsorship between the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and Business Forward, Inc, as a local ally. The Alliance, which focuses on connecting small business leaders […]

Healthy Rice Bowl Chain Signs 10-Store Deal to Expand in Arizona

WaBa Grill, one of the nation’s leading healthy rice bowl chains, is proud to announce a recently inked multi-unit development deal that will significantly expand its presence in Arizona. Signed by longtime WaBa Grill franchisee Jerry Bajwa of Bajwa Group of Companies, the new Arizona development deal paves the way for 10 WaBa Grill locations […]

Employees Say Working On-Site Is Not Worth the Commute, According to New Research

About half (46%) of knowledge workers report that their companies are not doing anything to make it worthwhile to commute to the office, “The 2023 Future of Working and Learning Report” released today by Executive Networks found. A majority of senior HR leaders (71%) and senior business leaders (62%) agree that there’s likely a “proximity […]

U.S. Annual Home Equity Gains Cool Again in Q4 2022, Says Report

CoreLogic®, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, today released the Homeowner Equity Report (HER) for the fourth quarter of 2022. The report shows that U.S. homeowners with mortgages (which account for roughly 63% of all properties) saw equity increase by 7.3% year over year, representing a collective gain of $1 trillion, […]