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Innovation Is Thriving In Arizona

Business Facilities

Boasting a population of nearly 500,000, Mesa is the 36th largest city in the United States and second largest in the Phoenix-Mesa metro area. AZLabs is located adjacent to the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport making it a strategic location for unmanned and autonomous vehicle research and operations.

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Business Facilities’ 2019 Metro Rankings Report

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Atlanta, GA; San Antonio, TX and Phoenix, AZ are the top-ranked large metros in this flagship category, respectively. It’s an environment where people are looking to enhance and augment ideas. Employees are able to find work environments they enjoy and contribute toward new technologies. ATLANTA NO. 1 IN GROWTH POTENTIAL.

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Women in Construction: Stephanie Kretchmar Turns Glitter into Gold

Pro Builder

Louis, Dallas and Phoenix, and my role is to manage major capital improvement and maintenance projects for any of those communities. I was a part of the company’s rehab team, mainly handling the construction permit process, but I was exposed to all aspects of what goes into a remodel or renovation project.

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The Desert Comfort Idea Home: a True Desert Oasis

Pro Builder

But the Desert Comfort Idea Home , a high-performance, net-zero–energy custom home built in the Sonoran Desert north of Phoenix, the latest in a series of Idea Homes produced by Pro Builder , is very real … and it delivers all of the comforts a desert oasis promises.

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Home Builder Success and the Fragility of Good Things

Pro Builder

For example, Atlanta, Dallas, and Phoenix have long been hot markets, but go into those and you’re competing with every national builder, a host of strong regionals, and more locals than you can count. The mega markets may have five times the number of permits, but 10 times the competition. Strong locals have done well.

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

Pro Builder

1 home builder in building permits and construction value, scaring off every large-volume, multistate production operation that dared enter Ivory’s Wasatch Mountain lair. 1 home builder in terms of building permits and construction value and reaching the milestone, in 2019, of 20,000 homes sold (right). Photos: courtesy Ivory Homes.

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FEATURE STORY: Semiconductor HUBS – Macro Growth from Micro Chips

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It is a unique environment unlike any place in the world. You have the world’s leading tech companies doing next generation innovation R&D and commercialization work here on site and doing so in an environment that allows them to mitigate the costs and accelerate their research by pooling their money.”.

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