Q&A: Todd Wood talks securing partnership with Taylor Morrison on hybrid rental homes

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Christopher Todd Communities By Angela Gonzales | Phoenix Business Journal  More homebuilders are looking at ways to get into the market for offering detached single-family homes for rent. These residences are a hybrid between an apartment unit and a single-family home. They typically are single-story, detached, with a small backyard patio and include amenities such …

Land getting premium pricing in Opportunity Zones; Dan Gauthier, Rose Law Group transactional attorney handling many Opportunity Zone investments, sheds light

Real Estate Daily News Globe St.com is reporting investors and developers are paying a premium for land sites in opportunity zones. A new study from Real Capital Analytics shows a rapid increase in pricing for opportunity zone deals. According to the study, prices for redevelopment projects in opportunity zones increase 14.2% since December 31, 2017, while prices for vacant land for …

El Mirage Mayor Alexis Hermosillo hopes Microsoft puts her city on high-tech, economic development map

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Microsoft By Mike Sunnucks | Rose Law Group Reporter El Mirage Mayor Alexis Hermosillo hopes Microsoft planned data center is just the beginning of more technology and industrial projects landing in the West Valley city. Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is locating a 240,000 square foot data center in El Mirage on 150 acres. Microsoft paid more …

Phoenix Suns spend millions to buy land for practice facility

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents the Phoenix Suns By Brandon Brown | Phoenix Business Journal The Phoenix Suns – under the name Suns Legacy Properties LLC – have purchased 2.4 acres of an office development in Phoenix’s Arcadia neighborhood on which to build the team’s new practice facility. In May, the Suns revealed they would build the a $25 million …

Microsoft data centers in Goodyear, El Mirage to have renewable energy focus

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Microsoft By Mike Sunnucks | Rose Law Group Reporter Microsoft’s three new data centers in Goodyear and El Mirage will be powered with 100 percent renewable energy. That includes via collaborations with Tempe-based First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR), Arizona Public Service (APS) and getting solar energy from a 150MW First Solar production facility in Maricopa, according …

Texting on the job: David McDowell, Rose Law Group partner and litigation department director, explains what employers can do to limit vicarious liability

By David McDowell, Rose Law Group partner and director of Litigation Department Currently in Arizona only a handful of municipalizes ban texting or reading/sending electronic messages while driving but in January 2021 it becomes illegal to operate a cellular telephone while driving without a hands-free device. The ban includes writing, sending, or reading any text-based communication or holding or supporting with any …