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Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Red Hawk Garage Suites breaks ground on 3-acre space BY ALEX GALLAGHER Foothills Focus Staff Writer
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ed Hawk Garage Suites broke ground on its 48,000-square-foot space located on 15th Avenue and Happy Valley Road on Oct. 6. The space will house 46 garages and has plans to be partially ready by March and fully complete by June. “This is a lifestyle,” said Charles Eckert Jr., the chief executive of�icer of Red Hawk Development and Red Hawk Garage Suites. “There are groups of guys who will come in and buy a garage and get two of their friends
to buy garage suites.” The space will feature a large community clubhouse with a club room for patrons to smoke cigars, a wet bar, and a large community refrigerator. Each of the garages will have plumbing to accommodate a restroom, as well as 120 amps of power and the capability for air conditioning. The facility will have a clubhouse with a club room, a wet bar and a refrigerator. “It’s a gathering place for people with common interests,” Eckert said. “You can build
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Red Hawk Development and Red Hawk Garage Suites founder and chief executive officer Charles Eckert admires the land that will soon be home to 46 luxury garage suites on 15th Avenue and Happy Valley Road. (Photo courtesy of Red Hawk Garage Suites)
City spending $5M for airport workers’ child care
BY PAUL MARYNIAK Foothills Focus Staff Writer
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hoenix is planning to spend $5 million to partially subsidize child care for employees of companies in and around Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Though the mechanics of the program have not yet been fully worked out, Aviation Director Chad Makovsky outlined the plan at a recent meeting of city council, which has approved the funding. “Many employers at Sky Harbor continue to have dif�iculty with attracting and retain-
ing skilled workers,” he told council. “Since the pandemic started nearly 18 months ago,” he said. “We know that cost and availability of affordable child care services are among the chief reasons cited, by prospective employees, who are not ready or able to return to the workforce.” Makovsky said that 63% of the city population tracts around the airport �it the criteria that de�ines “a child care desert.” “That means there are at least three children available for every available child care opening,” he explained, adding that the median annual cost of child care in Arizona is $12,000.
He said that out of 800 companies operating at or around the airport that responded to a recent city survey, 21 indicated that they had about 600 workers who “would be interest in affordable child care options.” Of the total $5 million set aside for the program, $4 million would be spent on actual services while up to $1 million would go to the provider of child care services for any necessary remodeling of a 12,000-square-foot city Aviation Annex building near Terminal 3 that would house the program.
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