Phoenix Achieves Zero Waste Goal for Downtown Super Bowl Events
The City of Phoenix Public Works Department reached its goal of diverting at least 92% of waste from Super Bowl events away from the landfill. After final sorting and weighing, the 2023 Super Bowl events hosted in downtown Phoenix surpassed a previous Super Bowl’s diversion rate of 91% to become the greenest Super Bowl […]
Electronics Retail Franchise Expanding Its Footprint in Arizona
PayMore, the in-demand buy, sell, trade electronics retailer, is seeing a trend of first-time franchisees upgrading their number of units with hundreds of new franchise owners signing on for multi-unit deals. In advance of the opening of his first Phoenix location, Arizona franchisee and serial entrepreneur has upgraded his unit count from one unit to […]
North America’s First Mobile Hair Braiding Company Expands to Scottsdale
What do you get if you combine DoorDash with braids? Meet braidbabes, a team of mobile braiders as the first mobile hair braiding company in North America that comes to you, has officially launched in Scottsdale. You’ve seen the pictures: the perfect braid, the Pinterest hair of your dreams, but nowadays who has time to […]
Northern California Sandwich Shop Opens Another Location in Arizona
Mr. Pickle’s Sandwich Shop, a beloved mom-and-pop family of quick-service restaurants in northern California, has officially opened its newest location in Arizona. The restaurant, located at 14696 N. Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd. on Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd. and Thompson Peak Pkwy, is open Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Sundays […]
Hotels on Hiring Spree with Better Wages, Benefits, Flexibility Despite Staffing Shortages
As nearly 80% of hotels experience staffing shortages, hoteliers are offering potential hires a host of incentives to fill vacancies, according to a new survey of hoteliers conducted by the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA). Seventy-one percent of respondents are increasing wages, 64% are offering greater flexibility with hours, and 33% are expanding benefits […]
Law Firm Expands Western U.S. Presence through Combination with Denver IP Firm
The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP announced today its combination with Adsero IP, a leading intellectual property (IP) law firm in Denver, effective March 1, 2023. The opening of a Denver office marks Quarles’ second recent expansion in the western U.S., having established its presence in California this January through a combination […]
All Mixed Up: How Mixed-Use Development Is Transforming Commercial Real Estate
“The world has changed and so has the world of development,” says Charley Freericks, senior vice president of Catellus Development Corporation. “Three years of living with COVID-19 has created new economic pressures, social inequities and a greater need for connection. People are looking for convenience. They want to work closer to home and live in […]
Navigating Murky Waters?
Whenever we open a news app, we’re inundated with headlines on foreboding topics. Looming recession. Political turmoil. Social unrest. Climate change. It seems there’s no end to the doom and gloom. In times like these, the path toward success isn’t just murky; it seems to have fallen away altogether. How can leaders navigate the challenges […]
Build a Culture of Safety and Human Reliability
A technician spills a toxic chemical. She isn’t injured, but easily could have been. The Hazmat cleanup costs more than $10,000, and shuts down a critical building for a week. An electrical engineer flips the wrong switch in a substation control room. He isn’t injured. But within seconds, a $50,000 transformer is destroyed. Three financial […]
Build Strength in Your Business through Stakeholder Engagement
Often, we arrive at a business idea and approach and decide: This will be our business, our mission, our purpose. The excitement of the opportunity and our depth of knowledge encourage us to move forward with the belief that we have all the knowledge and resources internally to succeed. Often, that may not be the […]