Commercial Real Estate & Business News – August 25, 2023

Apartment Rents are Falling at a Slower Pace in the Suburbs

Apartment rents have fallen to minus 0.7%, based on Apartmentlist.com’s most recent estimates for July of this year. This is the first year-over-year price drop the market has experienced since the beginning of COVID-19. But the decline has been uneven ever…»

Quarles Exec: Valley Law Office on ‘Rocket Ship’ with New Hires from Fallen Competitor

As one storied Phoenix law firm shutters its doors, another is ready to board a “rocket ship” to a new phase of growth. After more than 80 years in business, Jennings, Strouss & Salmon PLC recently announced it would cease operations at the end of August. That opened the…»

Popular Mexican Restaurant Salt and Lime Expands to Arcadia in Phoenix

Salt and Lime Modern Mexican Grill, a popular restaurant in Scottsdale, is planning to open a new location in Phoenix’s Arcadia neighborhood in early 2024. The restaurant, which has operated at 9397 E. Shea Blvd in Scottsdale since 2014, signed a lease for…»

Taser Maker Axon Proposes Thousands of Apartment Units Near New Scottsdale Headquarters

Axon, the Scottsdale-based maker of Taser stun guns, law enforcement body cameras and records-keeping software, is planning to add apartments, a hotel and commercial space, like restaurants and shops, to its north Scottsdale campus. Axon bought about…»

DraftKings Continues Work on TPC Sports Book

Nearly two years after DraftKings announced plans to open a retail sportsbook at the TPC Scottsdale golf club the facility is inching closer to opening this fall. Once completed, the 13,000-square-foot facility that sits on a 3.2-acre parcel on the southeast corner of…»