ACC Staff recommends abandoning needed water interconnection between Queen Creek and Johnson Utilities

Rose Law Group Reporter staff In a letter filed late yesterday, Arizona Corporation Commissions (ACC) Staff took a surprising position urging abandonment of ongoing efforts to interconnect Town of Queen Creek’s water system to the struggling Johnson Utilities’ system. Interconnecting Queen Creek’s water to Johnson’s pipes has been the plan ever since regulators implemented a moratorium limiting builders to one …

Documents confirm what Microsoft is building in Goodyear

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Microsoft Tech giant recently made its second land purchase of 147 acres in the area By Corina Vanek | Phoenix Business Journal Two sites Microsoft Corp. purchased in Goodyear will be developed into data centers. “As part of our plans to support the growing demand for cloud and internet services in Arizona and across the Western United States, …

Microsoft sites in metro Phoenix will be data centers

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Microsoft By Joshua Bowling | Arizona Republic Microsoft’s two new sites on the west side of metro Phoenix will be data centers. Months after city officials put Microsoft on the fast track to build in Goodyear, the city has released the facility’s site plan and a company spokesman confirmed the land will be used for data …

Suns in planning stages for practice facility and Talking Stick Resort Arena renovations

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents the Phoenix Suns By Duane Rankin | Arizona Republic All Josh Jackson has ever needed was a rim and ball to put “the work in” as he calls it. So he hadn’t really thought about how a new practice facility would benefit the Phoenix Suns when the city council approved a $230-million renovation proposal for Talking Stick …

Microsoft buys up more Phoenix-area land for $37 million

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Microsoft Microsoft spent $37 million on about 147 acres in Goodyear By Joshua Bowling | Arizona Republic Microsoft purchased another big chunk of land on metro Phoenix’s west side, this time for $37 million. The Washington-based tech giant bought about 147 acres of Goodyear land on the southeast corner of Indian School and Citrus roads near …

Opportunity Zones to encourage investment in distressed communities; Dan Gauthier, Rose Law Group transactional attorney handling many O-Zone investments, comments

By National Association of Home Builders | ProBuilder NAHB Housing Policy Briefing | The National Association of Home Builders is a Washington, D.C.-based trade association representing more than 140,000 members involved in home building, remodeling, multifamily construction, property management, subcontracting, design, housing finance, building product manufacturing, and other aspects of residential and light commercial construction. For more, visit nahb.org. Investor interest in opportunity zones …

Wall Street Journal talks to Jordan Rose, Rose Law Group Founder and President, about housing market, Jordan says ‘It feels like 2006 without the fake high at the end of the rainbow’

By Laura Kusisto | The Wall Street Journal Home buyers, often millennials, are looking farther away for affordable housing, even if that means a long commute The exurbs, the engine of the American housing market, are back. A decade ago, the sight of new homes under construction in Maricopa, an enclave of tidy cul-de-sacs 35 miles from downtown Phoenix, was …