Massive sports-entertainment project, Phoenix Rising soccer stadium, hotel expansion to boost Wild Horse Pass

A rendering of the remodeled Wild Horse Pass Casino. (Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Phoenix Rising Football Club.) By Lee Shappell | Wrangler News West Chandler and Tempe are about to get a major influx of sports, entertainment and recreation options as well as job opportunities with the announcement of massive projects that will create a miniature city at Wild Horse Pass …

Sacramento on brink of reversing residential zoning. Will Arizona follow suit? Rose Law Group Founder and President Jordan Rose comments

By ProBuilder Sacramento is close to approving one of the country’s first plans to end single-family residential zoning, which permits only one home on a property. Up to four homes could be built on lots in the city’s upscale neighborhoods. The LA Times notes this comes as a result of a new booming population of healthcare and technology employers and …

Fossil fuel pollution causes one in five premature deaths globally; Rose Law Group Co-Founder Court Rich comments on the study.

By Matthew Green | Reuters LONDON (Reuters) – Pollution from fossil fuels causes one in five premature deaths globally, suggesting the health impacts of burning coal, oil and natural gas may be far higher than previously thought, according to a study published on Tuesday. Parts of China, India, Europe and the northeastern United States are among the hardest-hit areas, suffering …

Arizona Supreme Court rules against Peoria in subsidy case; Jordan Rose, founder and president of Rose Law Group, weighs in with note to developers

Photo via Huntington University website By Philip Haldiman | Your Valley The Arizona Supreme Court ruled in favor of an appeal claiming that the city of Peoria illegally entered into an agreement to give up to $2.6 million in taxpayer money to Huntington University in exchange for opening a school in the P83 Entertainment District. Previously, the city prevailed at the …

Rose Law Group Co-Founder, Court Rich, tells Utility Dive new legislation aimed at halting implementation of Arizona’s new clean energy rules will be bad for business.

By Herman Trabish | Utility Dive Controversial proposed Arizona legislation would impose limits on the authority of the state’s elected utility regulators and make their recent groundbreaking zero-emissions mandate unconstitutional. Senate Bill 1175 expresses longstanding concerns from some lawmakers regarding overreach by the elected Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC), stakeholders agreed. But those concerns were aggravated by the ACC’s November approval of …

Gila River Community plans mammoth playground

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Phoenix Rising Football Club.) By Paul Maryniak | Chandler Arizonan The Gila River Indian Community and a Scottsdale development company are poised to begin work on a 3,300-acre sports and entertainment complex at Wild Horse Pass. Sunbelt Holdings President John Graham told the Arizonan that the development, located just south of the Loop 202-I-10 intersection, …

Could legalized sports betting be coming to Arizona?

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents PGA TOUR.) By Mitch Carr | 12News PHOENIX — Two bills – one in each house – are making their way through the Arizona state legislature with the goal of making sports betting and daily fantasy sports legal in Arizona. Jeff Weninger (R-Chandler) TJ Shope (R-Gila/Pinal Counties) are sponsoring the bills, and they hope a …

President Biden taking ‘sensible steps’ on immigration, says Darius Amiri, immigration law chair at Rose Law Group

By Daniel Gonzalez, Rafael Carranza| Arizona Republic President Joe Biden has wasted no time making changes to the nation’s immigration and border policies, many of them a 180-degree reversal of former President Donald Trump’s restrictive policies. On Feb. 2, Biden signed three executive orders. The first creates a task force to help reunite the remaining parents the Trump administration forcibly …

Thousands of Dreamers applied for DACA as Texas ruling looms; a ‘welcome development,’ says Darius Amiri, immigration law chair at Rose Law Group

By Daniel Gonzales | Arizona Republic More than 2,500 young undocumented Dreamers have applied for DACA in recent months, among them Phoenix university student Daniel Hernandez. Hernandez was blocked from applying for the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program under the Trump administration, which tried to rescind the program. The DACA program grants temporary protection from deportation and work permits to undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, known as Dreamers. Trump said …