“They assumed their consumer popularity translated into a free ticket to gentrify and instead got their lunch handed to them,” a non-profit exec said. By Steven Overly, David Glambusso and Dana Rubinstein | Politico Amazon thought it had locked down support for a new headquarters in Queens, New York by wooing a feuding mayor and governor. What it failed to …
By Phil Riske | Senior Reporter/Writer (STATE CAPITOL) — The House Government Committee on Thursday advanced a measure (7-3-1) designed to further protect private property owners from zoning changes that could affect the value of their property. The bill amends current law that stipulates 20 percent of property owners within an area sought to be rezoned may bring about a …
Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents the Phoenix Suns By Mike Sunnucks | Sports Business Journal A Phoenix group wants to take the $230M deal to renovate Talking Stick Resort Arena to voters. The effort aims to delay or undo the agreement approved by the City Council Wednesday. The group, Common Sense Phoenix, filed paperwork on Friday for two potential ballot measures …
In case you’re wondering… The giant metal oddly colored pole shockingly constructed right in front of Jordan Rose’s office is now down. Who says you shouldn’t be your own lawyer? Bye, bye pole…
(Editor’s note: News releases are published unedited, unless they contain factual errors.) Leading Automated Drone Startup receives Certificate of Waiver from the Federal Aviation Administration, allowing the company to initiate Beyond Visual Line of Sight operations in the US Scottsdale, Arizona (December 6th, 2018) – Leading automated drone startup Airobotics announced today that it is the first company in the United States to …
By Richard Wolf | USA TODAY The endangered dusky gopher frog lost a round at the Supreme Court Tuesday, but its fate is not yet final. In a unanimous 8-0 opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, the justices overruled a federal appeals court that upheld the designation of more than 1,500 acres of forested land in Louisiana as “critical habitat” for the frog – even …
Jordan Rose, Rose Law Group founder and president, speaking today in Scottsdale at the national Deloitte real estate conference.
By John Wright | Parker Live With water levels continuing to drop toward a ‘shortage’ declaration at Lake Mead, the state has been meeting with stakeholders for months to forge a Drought Contingency Plan (DCP). The offer, outlined in a November 9th letter to the Arizona Department of Water Resources and the Central Arizona Conservation District, would extend CRIT’s existing …
By Jordan Rose and Dan Gauthier | Rose Law Group As you have read, Opportunity Zones are a federal community development program enacted as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, with the primary purpose of incentivizing long-term investment in zones set aside by each state. Arizona has 168 Opportunity Zones, designated by Governor Ducey and certified in April. …
By Richard Rubin | Wall Street Journal The Trump administration proposed guidelines Friday that will help investors use a new tax incentive that encourages development in low-income areas. The Treasury Department designed the rules for the Opportunity Zone program to give businesses enough flexibility and certainty to start making major investments, said senior department officials. The program, with bipartisan roots, was a small …