Inside the history-making metaverse marriage of a Phoenix couple

By Andy Blye | Phoenix Business Journal Ryan and Candice Hurley had a “terrestrial” wedding 14 years ago. On Feb. 4 they got married again, but this time it was their digital identities tying the knot in the metaverse. The Hurleys live in Phoenix, but their virtual avatars decamped to Decentraland, a computerized world, or metaverse, for their virtual wedding. Naturally, …

Homebuilders enter escrow for new 1,200-acre master-planned community in Mesa

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Lennar and Taylor Morrison.)   By Angela Gonzales | Phoenix Business Journal   Homebuilders and developers are paving the way for thousands of new homes on 1,200 acres of land that once was occupied by dairy farmers. All of the land is under contract, with homebuilders and developers expected to close escrow over the next …

AZ DealMakers recap; Homebuilder Panel moderated by Jordan Rose, Rose Law Group founder and president

The Housing Market Economic Forecast to Help You Navigate 2022 By Madelaine Braggs | Rose Law Group Reporter Covid-19 reshaped the American economy and unexpectedly led to a wildly successful selling season for homebuilders and developers. But two years into the pandemic, the labor market is tight, inflation is the highest in 40 years, and supply chain issues are causing …

Pinal Partnership Recap: Top three things that have Pinal County mayors excited

By Madelaine Braggs | Rose Law Group Reporter Pinal County mayors have plenty to celebrate as the development boom hits rural Arizona. They each detailed how their municipalities are capitalizing on that growth at Pinal Partnership’s panel moderated by Jordan Rose, Rose Law Group founder and President. Mayor Craig McFarland – Casa Grande Lucid Phase 2 Industrial and housing growth …

Pinal Partnership: Mayors list more roads, grocery stores as major regional needs; discussion moderated by Rose Law Group Founder and President Jordan Rose

By Aaron Dorman | Pinal Central SIGNAL PEAK — Housing and industry are coming in fast, but transportation infrastructure is coming slow, according to mayors in Pinal County. During a panel at Central Arizona College hosted by Pinal Partnership, five county mayors — Casa Grande Mayor Craig McFarland, Maricopa Mayor Christian Price, Florence Mayor Tara Walter, Eloy Mayor Micah Powell …

First Hawes Crossing housing plan advances

The entire 1,131-acre Hawes Crossing master planned community is surrounded by Air Operations Areas that are shaded in three different colors based on the impact of flights to and from PHX Mesa Gateway Airport. Photo via City of Mesa (Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Lennar.) By Josh Ortega | East Valley Tribune Almost a year after Mesa City Council approved …

Rose Law Group: One of Arizona’s ‘Best Companies’

By BestCompaniesAZ | AZ Big Media BestCompaniesAZ is celebrating 20 years of recognizing Arizona’s Best Companies with the selection of the 100 Best Companies in Arizona. They’re the ones you read about because of all the good they accomplish. The innovation. The community service. The fun activities. They are major, established multinational brands – and they are also tech upstarts, disrupting …

TPC promises sportsbook ‘worthy of Scottsdale’

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents PGA Tour.) By J. Graber | Scottsdale Progress Sports betting is coming to Scottsdale. TPC Scottsdale has applied for a conditional use permit to build a sportsbook on a 3.2-acre parcel on the southeast corner of Hayden and Bell Roads, making Scottsdale one of the few Valley cities that host a facility for sports betting. …

Why NFTs will become bigger than bitcoin; ‘sky’s the limit,’ says Rose Law Group Founder and President Jordan Rose who has been working with NFTs and digital assets

By Ryan Brown | CNBC “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary is a big believer in non-fungible tokens — he even thinks they have a shot at becoming bigger than bitcoin. O’Leary, the chairman of O’Shares Investment Advisers, said his belief in NFTs stems from the idea that can they prove ownership of real-world items, such as designer watches or flash cars, digitally …