Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Petersen Properties & Management (Editor’s note: News releases are published as submitted unless there are errors of fact.) Chandler Air Park Developer and Principal, Kevin Petersen along with principal Brian Matlock have closed on 619 acres in Eloy, Arizona initiating development of Interstate 10-8 Business Park. The new speculative Class A industrial project will have the …
[OPINION] Scottsdale’s visionary leadership demonstrated through SouthBridge Two approval
Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Spring Creek Development By Don Henninger | Scottsdale Independent (Editor’s note: Opinion pieces are published for discussion purposes only) The Scottsdale City Council’s approval of the SouthBridge Two development is a strong investment in the future of Old Town and the city that will pay off for years to come. OK, that’s an opinion and everyone has …
SouthBridge Two: Scottsdale City Council approves mixed-use project
By Melissa Rosequist | Daily Independent In a split 4-3 Scottsdale City Council vote, Spring Creek Development’s polarizing project known as SouthBridge Two has been approved to redevelop a swath of Old Town real estate. The council’s vote came during its Dec. 4 meeting at City Hall, 3939 N. Drinkwater Blvd., with a number community members attending to give their perspective …
In southeastern Arizona, farms drill a half-mile deep while families pay the price
Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Fondomonte By Ian James, and Rob O’Dell | Arizona Republic Richard Wilson was in his kitchen making coffee and getting ready for work one July morning when he heard his wife, Julie, call out from the shower. She had just finished rinsing off when the water stopped. “I started hollering for him: ‘We ain’t got no water! …
In western Arizona, corporate megafarms turn water into profits, leaving small towns in the dust
Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Fondomonte By Rob O’Dell, and Ian James | Arizona Republic It was a triumph for the eight-man Salome High School football team. Clad in all green uniforms except for white helmets and socks, the Frogs smashed opponent Mayer 60-0 in front of a raucous homecoming crowd. Everything for the Frogs had come up green under …
For decades, groundwater beneath Arizona’s big cities has been spared. That’s about to change
Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Fondomonte By Rob O’Dell, and Ian James | Arizona Republic While groundwater is rapidly falling in rural farming communities across Arizona, Phoenix, Tucson and other cities haven’t reached that desperate situation. That’s because in the urban areas of the state — where there are rules limiting groundwater pumping — underground water levels have stabilized or risen in many areas …
These 7 industrial farm operations are draining Arizona’s aquifers, and no one knows exactly how much they’re taking
Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Fondomonte By Rob O’Dell, and Ian James | Arizona Republic The last time Regina Cobb traveled east of the Kingman airport toward the Peacock Mountains, the area was mostly unspoiled desert where cattle grazed on the sparse Mojave Desert vegetation. She had driven up the dusty rural road to store a bighorn sheep she killed on a hunt. …
Megafarms and deeper wells are draining the water beneath rural Arizona – quietly, irreversibly
Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Fondomonte By Ian James, and Rob O’Dell | Arizona Republic Vast expanses of lush green fields are multiplying in the Arizona desert, forming agricultural empires nourished with billions of gallons of groundwater in the otherwise parched landscape. Arizona’s groundwater levels are plummeting in many areas. The problem is especially severe in unregulated rural areas where there …
Southbridge II, an Old Town project decades in the making, approved
Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Spring Creek Development By Paulina Pineda and Lorraine Longhi | Arizona Republic Fred Unger’s vision for the Canals of Scottsdale would have transformed the city’s waterfront into something akin to the San Antonio Riverwalk, but was rejected by voters 20 years ago. Carter Unger is seeing the vision through as a split Scottsdale City Council on Wednesday …
Scottsdale City Council approves SouthBridge 2 project
Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Spring Creek Development By Corina Vanek | Phoenix Business Journal The Scottsdale City Council voted 4-3 in favor of the SouthBridge 2.0 project at its meeting Wednesday night. Mayor Jim Lane and councilwomen Suzanne Klapp, Virginia Korte and Linda Milhaven voted in favor of the project, which was amended to lower some maximum building heights, which …