Daily News 7-29-2026

Rawhide Development Co., an affiliate of the Arizona Cardinals and the owner and developer of 217 acres in north Phoenix where the NFL team is building its new headquarters campus and performance center, has hired a CEO. Ralph Ireland is now the president and CEO of Rawhide Development. His role will include managing the massive mixed-use property located at Scottsdale Road and the Loop 101 in north Phoenix that will include the NFL team’s headquarters. Last year, Rawhide…»

During the 12‑month period ending June 30, 2026, the Arizona Commerce Authority (ACA) and local economic development partners worked with companies that committed to creating 26,225 projected new Arizona jobs and investing more than $109 billion into communities statewide — both single‑year records. The projected new jobs carry an average wage of $81,368, higher than the state median wage. “Across the state, we’re delivering the family‑sustaining jobs and economic…»

Creation, one of Arizona’s leading real estate development firms, in partnership with CrossHarbor Capital Partners and Amherst, announced the completion of Nexus Commerce Center, a three-building, 273,000-square-foot Class-A industrial park at Elliot Road and Hardy Drive in Tempe. Delivered on a 16-acre site once home to Elliot Corporate Center, the redevelopment converts a site once home to 200,000 square feet of vacant office space into an institutional-quality shallow-bay…»

A private clean energy firm is planning a major solar project on state-owned land near Buckeye, amid a flurry of similar projects in various stages of development in the West Valley and further south in Pinal County. Charlottesville, Virginia-based Apex Clean Energy applied for a 30-year commercial lease for a 3,897-acre site where it wants to build a 350-megawatt utility-scale solar plant with battery energy storage systems, according to documents submitted with the Arizona State Land…»

Four Arizona cities have been named in the Top 10 of WalletHub’s “Best Places to Rent in America” survey, with four more making the Top 25. In what will almost certainly be viewed with horror and trepidation by Scottsdale’s anti-apartment contingent, that city secured the Number One position. The other Arizona cities and their rankings were: Gilbert, 2; Chandler, 3; Peoria, 6; Mesa, 16; Glendale, 17; Phoenix, 19, and Tempe, 25. The survey covered 182 cities around the country…»