RLG Senior Planner/Project Manager Nick Labadie talks long-term steps cities and development community can take now in response to COVID-19 (Part I)

By Nick Labadie, Senior Planner at Rose Law Group Long-Term Steps Cities and the Development Community Can Start Now in Response to COVID-19 There are a lot of people doing a lot right now to help get this pandemic under control. The help , however,  is mostly from politicians, scientists, doctors, nurses, first responders, and law enforcement. For many of the rest of us, we …

Three things to know before investing in Opportunity Zones. Dan Gauthier, RLG transactional attorney handling many O-Zone investments, provides further insight

  By Caroline Kane | Forbes When looking for new ways to grow a multifamily investment portfolio, new ventures sometimes can be found in the unlikeliest of places. Qualified opportunity zones, for example, are designated by a federal tax incentive program as “designed to spur economic development and job creation in distressed communities throughout the country and U.S. possessions by providing tax …

New road to Glendale’s spring training park could lead to long-sought development

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Mattamy Homes and assisted with the deal to build this road.) By Jen Fifield | AZCentral Spring training fans attending games at Camelback Ranch this year may face less of a traffic jam, thanks to a new road leading to the ballpark. Glendale officials and business leaders on Tuesday celebrated the opening of a new stretch of Ballpark Boulevard, which …

Lawsuit challenges Unger project referendum

By Wayne Schutsky | Scottsdale Progress (Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Spring Creek Development.) The Southbridge Two development in downtown Scottsdale will go before voters in November – if the opposition’s referendum petition survives a court challenge filed by the developer on Feb. 5. Scottsdale City Clerk Carolyn Jagger on Jan. 31 notified the Committee for the Preservation of Old …

Scottsdale OKs Downtown Short-Term Rental Plan

By Wayne Schutsky | Scottsdale Progress (Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents STR Ventures.) A once-controversial short-term rental project near Scottsdale City Hall passed the City Council with little fanfare or opposition just months after the Planning Commission recommended its rejection. On Feb. 5, the council voted 6-1 to approve a zoning change requested by STR Ventures, removing first-floor residential limits …

Take me out to Ballpark Boulevard!

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Mattamy Homes Rose Law Group Reporter This morning Jordan Rose, Rose Law Group founder and president, attended a ribbon-cutting for Ballpark Boulevard in Glendale. In attendance were Glendale Mayor Jerry Weiers, Councilwoman Joyce Clark, Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, and Rose Law Group client and Division President of Mattamy Homes, Harry Lourimore. The new road connects Camelback Road to Glendale. …

Microsoft data center among 3 new projects going up west of Loop 101

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Microsoft By Joshua Bowling | Arizona Republic Microsoft is nearing completion on one of its metro Phoenix data centers — a long, low-slung building going up on Olive Avenue near Dysart Road.  A U.S. Army Reserve training facility and a new warehouse also are going up in the northwest Valley, west of Loop 101. The Microsoft data center in …

As huge East Mesa rezoning nears OK, farm exodus begins

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Hawes Crossing By Jim Walsh | East Valley Tribune Urban sprawl may level Jim Boyle’s bucolic East Mesa dairy farm and force him to move his home and operation to Casa Grande, but he’s okay with that. Despite the more than 40 years his family has tended his two farms near Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport, Boyle …