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It’s time for a renewed push for renewable energy sustainable future is what Arizonans deserve and we must recommit ourselves to protecting our beloved state, its people and workforce. Fortunately, through science and technological breakthroughs, there are solutions available to drastically cut carbon emissions, while spurring Arizona’s local economy.

It will take bold leadership from both the public and private sectors to enact strong, sound policies in order to accomplish these goals.

The United States is eyeing a transition to sustainable energy with strategies such as electric vehicle adoption. As it makes climate change a key issue in domestic and foreign policy, the U.S. rejoined the Paris Agreement on climate change earlier this year and will set new targets to limit harmful greenhouse gas emissions. Just last month the federal administration announced its plans to make an ambitious push for a national clean energy standard, a major stimulus for electric vehicles, a revamped power grid, and investing in new jobs to help workers dislocated by the transition.

At the local level, states and cities across the nation are also setting their own climate goals, car manufacturers are committing

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to more electric vehicle production and large corporations are making commitments to going carbon neutral. It’s one of the reasons that we support the 2030 District Challenge For Planning and joined Arizona Thrives. We are committed to working together, across our state, in a way that works for Arizona.

In Arizona, we have an abundance of natural resources, making our state a prime location for becoming the nation’s leader in clean energy production.

And it’s not just big corporate companies leading the way to a clean future, as many of our state’s locally owned small businesses are leading the charge, making commitments to business practices that promote carbon neutrality to clean up our state’s air.

Local First Arizona members are committing to running their businesses while reducing their carbon pollution. Support through our programs such as SCALE UP and the Arizona Green Business Certification ensure that

larger carbon pollution reduction goals are met.

This is also possible on a larger scale with the support of our leaders and enacting climate policies that will help businesses adopt sustainable practices.

SCALE UP (Sustainable Communities Accessing Lending and Expertise Upon Performance) is an award-winning program that offers a comprehensive seven-week workshop series for locally-owned and operated independent businesses and nonprofits in the greater Phoenix and Tucson areas. Supported by the State of Arizona, each cohort offers the unique opportunity for businesses to go from education and collaboration to planning, financing, benchmarking and implementation in one accessible package. With COVID-19, SCALE UP is an opportunity to re-build with an emphasis on equity and sustainability.

The federal government is considering up to $2 trillion in spending on efforts to boost the economy, including rebuilding aging infrastructure like highways and bridges, and investing in technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It’s critical that Arizona’s entire congressional delegation leverage any potential federal funding to only grow our state’s clean energy economy.

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alancing work life with home life can be a challenge for many people who work long hours and into the weekends. It’s important to take the time to recharge outside of the workplace and spend time with family and friends so you don’t burn out. Follow the tips below to balance personal with professional.

1. Get organized. Plan your workday ahead of time and prioritize any urgent tasks that you need to complete first. If you tend to work better in the mornings, start these tasks first thing before making any phone calls or answering emails.

2. Track your time. Track how long you’re spending on each task throughout the day. Notice where you have time suckers, such as browsing your Facebook feed or chatting with a co-worker, and work to eliminate these from your schedule to maximize productivity.

3. Avoid multitasking.

Focus on one task at a time so you can give it your all and get it done quicker.

Close out of all other browser tabs and buckle down on one project from the top of your to-do list.

4. Don’t overcommit.

Speak up if you feel that you are drowning in work. It’s OK to ask for help from a colleague.

5. Limit meetings. Do your best to only attend meetings that you absolutely need to be a part of.

By limiting the amount of meetings in your day, you will free up time to get the important work done.

6. Lower your stress level. Consider going for

a walk during your lunch break or just pushing away from your desk for a brief walk down the hall to clear your mind. Making time for yourself is important in reducing stress and creating a good work/life balance.

7. Lean on your support system. Join forces with your colleagues to create a plan of action for the days when you need to leave early for a family function or when you take a mental health day.

8. Unplug. If your job allows, power down your devices in the evening so you aren’t tempted to work while at home. If you must be connected, let your colleagues know that you won’t be checking emails after a certain time and have them call if there is an urgent matter.

9. Get more sleep. Lack of sleep will greatly increase your stress. Instead of relying on caffeine to wake you up in the morning, try getting to bed a little earlier to wake up feeling refreshed.

Mobile apps, like Sleep Cycle, can help you get your sleep schedule back on track.

10. Take a vacation.

Schedule an annual vacation where you can disconnect and recharge. Taking a break from the daily grind is not only extremely important for your mental and physical health, but it will also help boost your productivity when you’re back at the office.

Lisa Lovallo is the Southern Arizona market vice president for Cox Communications, leading a team of 250-plus Southern Arizona Cox employees. Reach her at lisa.lovallo@cox.com.

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The University of Arizona Center for Innovation, UA’s startup business incubator, has expanded with the addition of Peter Nestler as their new Mentor-in-Residence. In this role, he will work with UACI staff and Subject Matter Experts to support startups with an added focus on life sciences.

Nestler has more than 25 years of experience in academic life sciences, the pharmaceutical industry and biotechnology environments. He earned his PhD with a focus on chemistry from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. This led to a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University and a faculty position at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory into industry and eventually to Tucson.

He has been a member of several scientific societies, including the American Peptide Society from 1997 to 2003, the Japanese Combinatorial Chemistry Focus Group since 1996, and the American Chemical Society since 1995. He served as a Proofing Editor for “Chemical Highlights” in 1993 and 1994, and he has been a member of the German Chemical Society since 1987.

Dr. Nestler has nearly 40 patents and publications to his credit, and is a member of Desert Angels, Southern Arizona’s seed stage investment group.

The University of Arizona Center for Innovation provides dedicated space for startups where they can work alongside other entrepreneurs in a fast-paced environment.

Carondelet Health Network welcomes new market CEO, the chair of the National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives

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Lindsay Pancoast has associated with the Tucson/Foothills office of Coldwell Banker Realty as an affiliate agent. Prior to affiliating with Coldwell Banker Realty, she was an agent with Keller Williams Southern Arizona. Before that, she was an agent with Vernon Realty in Vernon, Arizona. She attended Northern Arizona University and received her real estate training at the Hogan School of Real Estate.

“I was drawn to real estate because I love helping people,” said Pancoast. “I decided to affiliate with Coldwell Banker in particular because of its notable reputation, fantastic marketing systems and educational programs, which will lend me the opportunity for further professional growth.”

Jackson Cassidy, who recently graduated from the University of Arizona with a master’s in urban planning, has joined Lazarus & Silvyn, P.C. land use law firm as a land planner.

Cassidy has specialized expertise in geographic information systems mapping and highend graphic design. Cassidy graduated among the top of his urban planning master’s class, specializing in real estate and urban development.

“Jackson’s educational and personal interest in urban land planning and his skills translating complex land planning information into materials more easily understood by project stakeholders, especially the general public, impressed us,” said Keri Lazarus, partner at Lazarus & Silvyn.

Downtown’s Fox Theatre has announced multiple hires and promotions ahead of their 2021/22 season. Emily Pratt (pictured) who served as the Fox’s box office manager for the past five years, has been promoted to the Director of Audience Services position.

Her responsibilities include building the team and creating operating procedures that will provide a positive experience for all guests entering the Fox. Jeff Rodenkirch has been promoted to the position of Director of Facilities and Production.

With four years of experience at the Fox as technical director, he now will oversee all technical aspects of production.

Finally, Jonathon Scott Crider has been named Director of External Relations. Jonathon’s primary role is managing the communications, marketing, and fundraising operations.

Leif Dumm has returned to Coldwell Banker Realty as an agent affiliated with its Tucson-Williams Centre office.

He comes to the office with six years of real estate experience in Tucson. Prior to affiliating with Coldwell Banker Realty, he was the property manager for Tower Property Resources LLC. He is a retired non-commissioned officer of the United States Coast Guard.

“My wife and I fell deeply in love with the desert when we visited Tucson in 2012,” said Dumm. “Shortly after moving here, I decided to start my real estate career in December 2015 and never looked back.”

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Carondelet Health Network is welcoming Monica C. Vargas-Mahar as the new market CEO to lead Carondelet St. Mary’s, St. Joseph’s and Marana hospitals. Vargas-Mahar is an experienced healthcare executive with more than 20 years of experience, and a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. She was appointed by The American Hospital Association to its Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award Committee. She also serves on the board for Trinity University Healthcare Administration Program, Association of University Programs in Health Administration and Loretto Catholic High School.

“I look forward to being a part of the Tucson community and collaborating with our physicians, associates and board of governors to ensure Carondelet hospitals deliver the highest standards of care to every patient,” said Vargas-Mahar. “Carondelet offers many advanced services including Level 1 trauma, neurosciences, cardiovascular and surgical care, and it’s exciting to join such a talented team.”

She earned her master’s degree in Healthcare Administration from Trinity University in San Antonio, and bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Prior to joining Carondelet, she served as CEO of The Hospitals of Providence East Campus and market chief operating officer of The Hospitals of Providence in El Paso.

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Minority-owned businesses still recovering from pandemic hits had reserves and were more astute with technology and could access resources eas2020 poll from ier, you may not have been the U.S. Chamber as impacted. It was primarof Commerce put ily those minority-owned it bluntly: In May 2020, and women-owned 78% of minority-owned businesses that were hit businesses said they were hardest.” concerned about closing Similar difficulties permanently, as compared affect minority-owned to 52% of non-minoribusinesses on a statewide ty-owned businesses. level. According to the The president of the U.S. Arizona Hispanic ChamChamber stated in those ber of Commerce, miearly days of the pandemic nority-owned businesses that this anxiety demonsee an average revenue strated economic inequal- of $110,000, whereas ities throughout the coun- non-minority-owned busitry, ones that COVID may nesses make an average of exacerbate. In many ways, $500,000. This translates that’s exactly what we saw to minority-owned busithroughout the U.S. and nesses having far less cash here in Tucson. And while reserves, or “float,” making mandates are removed and them more susceptible to businesses are reopening, closure during economic many of the problems upheaval. from COVID remain for “The estimate I’ve minority-owned heard is that for every one businesses. pandemic year, it’s a three“A lot of these small to-five year recovery,” businesses were impactsaid AZHCC President & ed tremendously because CEO Monica Villalobos. some of them were operat- “All businesses impact the ing paycheck to paycheck, families of their employees, and whatever savings they but the reason minoridid have, they immediately ty businesses are unique started tapping into or is that 56% of minoriusing their personal credit ty-owned businesses are cards to keep afloat. So family-owned. So when a they’re taking even longer business goes down, or a to get into a financialbusiness owner goes down ly stable situation,” said if they’re sick, that entire Magdalena Verdugo, CEO family is without a revenue of the YWCA of Southsource.” ern Arizona. “If you were In addition to offering doing well already, and $6,000 Small Business

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SUCCESS Grants to their members, AZHCC also provided consultancy to help minority-owned businesses pivot their output.

For example, one of their members was a restaurant, and AZHCC helped shift their business to focus on catering in order to stay active during the pandemic.

“Collaboration was the name of the game. It was critical to survival,” Villalobos said. “They were small and vulnerable businesses, but also small and nimble… We had to implement a pivot strategy as well. We took a lot of our folks that were focusing on business development, because businesses were not in a position to join as members, and pivoted those people to become grant specialists and business consultants. The Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce has been around for more than 70 years, and this was really a test. If we couldn’t help our business members then, what good are we?”

As part of the City of Tucson’s CARES Act funding, $2M was initially approved for small business grants. YWCA was selected to administer these funds out of their Women’s Business Center as small business continuity grants.

YWCA women’s business center is one of the only such business centers in the

state, providing entrepreneurship and training for women and minority-owned businesses.

Although a majority of applicants were women-owned businesses, applications were available regardless of gender. However, the grants were prioritized for minority-owned businesses, as well as ones that were owned by women, veterans and disabled workers.

YMCA and the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona examined what small businesses’ income looked like in February vs April 2020, in order to “fill the gap” of revenue lost. Initially, businesses could get anywhere from $2,500 to $10,000.

“The funding went very quickly,” Verdugo said.

“As we went further into the year, we realized this was not a short pandemic, and we were in it for the long haul. So we expanded the grant maximum from $10,000 to $20,000, and expanded the financial review to 2019 in comparison to 2020.”

As more funding and grant opportunities became available, YWCA ultimately distributed more than $9M to local businesses. These grants included Small Business Utility and Rental Assistance, Small Business Continuity grants, and

grants specific to Rio Nuevo District, all distributed before the end of the year.

“We were working through Christmas, right up to New Year’s, ensuring the resources were not only awarded, but were hitting out small businesses’ accounts in a timely manner,” Verdugo said.

However, as they worked with local small businesses, they quickly realized some were in need of more than funding. Small businesses, such as some restaurants, weren’t prepared to shift online for a new way of taking orders. So YWCA also helped with website development, and what software they could access to be able to have digital sales.

“We had a lot of businesses that were limited in English, so we had to translate. A lot of the time, it was providing one-onone coaching through the application process,” Verdugo said. “Now, we did roll out the application both in English and in Spanish, so it was more about navigating the websites, and understanding what documentation we were requesting.”

YWCA even helped them establish business accounts to accept funds, made their computer lab available for use, and introduced them to local financial institutions. Verdugo says YWCA became

an information conduit for small and minority-owned businesses, and continues to do so.

“Businesses that were small, whether they were restaurants or in the service industry, we found they were highly impacted, because they often lacked the ability to access PPP and EIDL loans,” Verdugo said. “For the PPP loans, it was very evident you needed to have a relationship with a financial institution in order to leverage that, which a lot of our small businesses lacked. They also might not have known how to go about applying, or weren’t prepared by not having the documentation in the format it was requested.”

YWCA eventually saw collaboration between the small businesses they helped, forming networks to support each other and sharing information on how to weather the pandemic. These relationships remain, as YMCA continues to serve as a conduit of information for minority-owned businesses still struggling.

“Although minority-owned businesses have definitely suffered, I remain confident they will rebound and recover,” Villalobos said. “That’s just the nature of the entrepreneur, particularly the minority entrepreneur.” ITB

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outhern Marana continues to grow as the international healthcare company Roche plans to double its footprint on Tangerine Road. On Tuesday, June 1, Roche broke ground on a 60,000 square foot facility, directly next to its current facility of the same size. The facility is operated by Roche Tissue Diagnostics, formerly Ventana Medical Systems, which is headquartered in Oro Valley, and is expected to complete construction in mid-2022.

“This further solidifies Roche’s commitment to this area,” said Jill German, head of Roche Tissue Diagnostics. “Last year, cancer patients along with many other types of diseases suffered because getting to a hospital and having testing was very difficult during COVID, and yet we still touched the lives of 27 million patients around the world. And that’s something this site helps us continue to do.”

Roche announced they plan to move some of their manufacturing and employees from their Oro Valley campus to their expanded Marana facility upon completion. This can include moving up to 150 existing employees to the new location, and expanding the employee base at both facilities. In total, Roche employs more than 1,700 workers in the greater Tucson area.

“This project also is a big win for us as a business and for the Tucson metropolitan area as a global community for us,” said Himanshu

Parikh, vice president of global operations at Roche Tissue Diagnostics. “It becomes a good community partnership between businesses, because by allowing us to expand and continue to expand in this region, it also helps the community and in general the bioscience community in Southern Arizona.”

Roche Tissue Diagnostics develops more than 250 diagnostic tests and associated instruments for cancer, including specialized stains for tissue samples that allow researchers to detect various biomarkers for cancers.

“With this new expanded facility, our goal is to move some instrument manufacturing production over here, so this becomes a one-stop-shop,” Parikh said. “When we do that, it will allow us to expand our instrument manufacturing footprint in the Oro Valley campus and this is where the major growth of business is taking place. So we can continue to meet the growing demand of business over the years.”

German says that because Roche Tissue Diagnostics works under highly validated processes, the most important thing is that when manufacturing is moved from one location to the next, it continues to work in the same way so agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration can be assured of quality.

With this expanded facility, Roche says they will have more lab space to further develop their reagents and devices in the northwest area.

“They work handin-hand, you can’t have one without the other,” German said. “The importance of both can’t be

A mockup of Roche Tissue Diagnostics’ expanded facility on Tangerine Road, expected to be completed in mid-2022. Architectural mockup courtesy of Roche Tissue Diagnostics

understated. We’re really excited that this allows for the continued growth of our business and our ability to serve patients.”

The growing facility is located near the Gladden Farms community in Marana, which has seen many homes built in recent years. Marana mayor Ed Honea remarked on the growth in the area, saying how that section of Tangerine Road is continually developing.

“This is a huge employment base, it’s a tax base, it’s a building that provides a service that helps people all around the world, and that service can be provided in the area,” Honea said. “We’re thrilled we have the infrastructure…

If you want to come to our community, provide a clean service, employ people, and nobody complains about you and be a good neighbor, we are absolutely thrilled.” ITB

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s the sun set over Anselmo Valencia Tori Amphitheatre on Thursday night, the graduating classes of Toltecalli and Envision high schools, led by Pasco Yaqui tribal member, keynote speaker and social worker Maria Molina Vai Sevoi, performed a rite of passage ceremony.

Acknowledging the land they stood on and recognizing their roots, Vai Sevoi asked everyone present to close their eyes and breathe in light, love and pride, then breathe out the water, breath and fire that was carried in their ancestors’ body and peace.

Then she asked them to raise a fist in the air.

“This represents resistance,” said Vai Sevoi.

“This represents resistance as indigenous people, as people of color, the ways that we’ve survived in a society that said you don’t belong here. When you get your diplomas that’s one of the ultimate forms of resistance. When you succeed, that’s resistance. I want to see some fists up in the air.

That represents your resistance, and that represents that we’re not afraid and that we’re going to take space, and that we’re going to be the caretakers of today and of the future.”

In her speech, Vai Sevoi described the graduating class as flourishing flowers and their seeds as every-

thing that comes from their ancestors.

“You’re the seeds that sprouted that your ancestors prayed for, that your mothers carried in their womb, that your caregivers nurtured,” said Vai Sevoi.

“You flourished to this beautiful flower. Everything that they taught you.

Those are flowers. Every paper you’ve ever written, every song you ever jotted down, any artwork, anything that you’ve ever done.

Those are your flowers, and they have seeds.”

Graduating senior Cassandra Sanchez is one of those flowers. At the age of 16, Sanchez graduated last week from Toltecalli High School and will attend the University of Arizona to study marine biology.

As a graduating senior from one of the Chicano Por La Causa Community Schools, Sanchez had a flexible, tuition-free learning experience where she could make up for failed credit, utilize on and off campus resources and even graduate early.

Despite the pandemic and remote-learning woes, Sanchez pushed through to graduate.

“That was definitely difficult in the beginning but towards the end it got a lot easier,” said Sanchez.

“My grades started going up so much but then we went back to school and then they went up even more.”

The possibility of graduating early and the knowledge that she could

do other things after high school inspired Sanchez to graduate. She admits she is scared about starting university when she is much younger than her peers, but is grateful and inspired for the possible opportunities after high school. She was awarded the Wildcat Recognition Tuition Award and thanks her school for the help and resources they gave her to accomplish this.

“Toltecalli has really done a lot for me, and really just brought my spirits up and everything and I’m really grateful for the school,” said Sanchez.

“They’ve definitely given me a lot of support, more than I’ve ever gotten from any other school, like they have supported me in creating clubs, getting into new things and going after what I really like.”

While at Toltecalli, Sanchez created a travel club and participated in the Student Council. Sanchez also thanked her mom for her support during her graduation speech while choking back tears.

“But mostly, I want to thank my mom for helping me throughout high school and pushing me to be my very best,” Sanchez said.

“I know I’ve made a lot of mistakes throughout high school, and especially at home but I’ve learned from Toltecalli and from you that the most important thing you can do is learn.”

Like Sanchez, Envision High School graduating senior Caitlyn Esquivel

Envision High School graduating senior Caitlyn Esquivel. Photo by Christina Duran

thanked her family and school for their support through a pandemic that made school harder.

“Over these last four years, or three, we have all had experiences of learning from the good and the bad, to laughing and the crying, or from the late night to the early mornings. I’m not going to stand here and tell you it was easy either, because it wasn’t. Some of us had to deal with loss, anxiety, relationships, grades, tests and figuring out our futures. Some of us did that while working and all of us did that during a

global pandemic,” Sanchez told her graduating class on Thursday night. “It is through both our struggles and perseverance that we are walking the stage and getting that diploma with our heads high and our futures on the horizon.”

She specifically thanked her dad for pushing her to graduate as well as everyone present at the ceremony who “helped us graduates get to where we are now and for that we are forever grateful. Whether it was family, friends or teachers we thank you, not just for helping us in our journey but for putting up with us.”

Esquivel accomplished a part of her plan when she graduated early from Envision High School at the age of 17 and plans to attend Pima Community College in the Fall to study business management.

Toltecalli High School Principal Angel Sobrino asked the students to remember who they are and their unique experiences.

“Most importantly guys and I say this seriously, never forget where you come from,” said Sobrino.

“It’s your personal experiences that have brought you guys here today, as many of you guys said.” ITB

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ver the past decade, the concept of tiny homes has grown in popular culture, but a real estate startup aligned with the University of Arizona’s Center for Innovation is taking things to the next level. Stackhouse aims to change how people own and finance a home by offering customizable shipping container homes at 320 square feet each.

However, the individual container-homes are only one element of Stackhouse. The startup plans to form these containers into urban residential towers, creating entirely unique communities for residents with a penchant for minimalism.

“We’ve been very intentional with the design of the community so our residents have everything they need,” said Stackhouse CEO Janelle Briggs.

“There just hasn’t been any new innovation in the housing space, and the fact this is new, customizable and mobile has people really excited.”

While the Stackhouse model unit is currently located on the UACI campus south of Tucson, the first Stackhouse community is planned for Denver, and will see 62 units placed alongside and on top of each other. While ship-

ping container malls have become more popular over the past few years, Briggs says the country’s extreme housing market is really empowering Stackhouse’s business model. Briggs says the company already has 1,000 people on the Denver waitlist after only a month of advertising.

“It is absolutely an advantage, and an imperative that we fill,” Briggs said.

“People need housing, and I foresee us not being able to build fast enough.

And while that’s great for our business, I think it’s a problem for the rest of the country that we are not housing our citizens.

And that’s why we started this company, because we wanted to help solve that problem.”

Briggs currently lives in the Stackhouse model unit on the UACI tech park with her partner and co-founder Ryan Egan.

She says a benefit is that the container-homes don’t have to include anything specific, and are customizable to meet the “living needs” of the resident. As Briggs explains, if cooking a full meal at home isn’t necessary to the resident, but having a dedicated workspace is, Stackhouse can make it happen.

Briggs and Egan founded Stackhouse in 2017, and were accepted into UACI in Oct. 2020. UACI is a startup “incubator”

that currently supports 54 businesses by providing resources and connections, both from the university system and the Tucson community. UACI looks to support “scalable science and technology ventures,” helping them through a combination of programming, funding, and forming relationships with fellow startups.

“What makes any startup really attractive is of course novel technology, but there’s also this mix of the mission, and above all else, the team,” said UACI executive director Eric Smith.

“Janelle and Ryan, and the support group they’ve built, are truly inspiring as entrepreneurs. They have unmatched motivation, and that’s exactly the team we want to work with…

With Stackhouse, it was all about implementation of all of these things. They’d already planned very well, so for us it was all about getting to work.”

For Stackhouse, UACI helped form connections to manufacturing, as well as relationships with municipalities for their housing development. But perhaps most importantly, they were able to provide space for their first unit on UACI’s 1,300-acre tech park.

“Every startup that takes space inside the tech park incubator is unique, and has unique needs, which

Stackhouse co-founders Janelle Briggs and Ryan Egan next to their container-home model unit on the University of Arizona’s Center for Innovation campus. Courtesy photo.

makes it really exciting,” Smith said. “Stackhouse is of course unique. Very rarely do we have somebody that asks to drop a house on our land, but we were able to make that happen.”

Briggs, who is bi-racial, says her ethnicity has also had an impact on the story of Stackhouse, as well as her focus on inclusion and social change. Both of her parents served in the military, her dad being black and her mom white.

“We were always housed, and having a place to live was not something that I

had to worry about, and that was in part because of the good jobs my parents had in the military,” Briggs said. “The world that allowed my parents to meet is very different than the world we find ourselves in now. And who I am in the world is a very different experience than a couple of years ago. Trying to raise money as a first-generation college student is hard. We don’t have the network.

Egan and I joke that the biggest win for me was falling in love with a white guy, because he has more access than I do.”

She says even how her and Egan downsized to live in their container-home, and what they decided to keep, was a question of race, privilege and access.

“We’re very proud of the diversity of the entrepreneurs that we serve, both in gender and in race, as well as international representation,” Smith said. “It truly makes the cohort of startups we work with more robust.”

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their network, and leveraging resources in the community that are specifically there to serve diverse populations of entrepreneurs.

While Briggs, who holds a PhD in speech communications, is passionate about accessibility and entrepreneurship, Egan has worked in real estate his entire career. Briggs says his proficiency is in working with cities to get plans approved for construction. An inspiration for Stackhouse stems from Egan being tasked with managing properties from a former employer, one of which involved a condo entitlement in San Francisco.

“It was just a standard condo building, but the process of getting the city to approve buildings is really difficult and it took him three years to get a 28-unit condo building approved

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by the City of San Francisco,” Briggs said. “And that’s where he learned how that process worked and how to host effective neighborhood meetings, thinking ‘There’s got to be a more efficient way to do this entitlement process.’ So our goal with Stackhouse is to have a standard building design that we can take to any city that follows the local and municipal code so that it’s easy to approve and we can build quickly across the country.”

Briggs says they are constructing their debut community in Denver because the City of Tucson slowed processing of their Government Property Lease Excise Tax applications, and Stackhouse had to keep moving.

Despite this, they had such a positive experience with UACI that they plan to remain members even after

moving to Colorado.

“We thought we’d have to wait for a major city to see us building in a place like Tucson first, but we presented the concept blind to the city and had a really great reception,” Briggs said.

The container-homes come from the manufacturer built to Housing and Urban Development code, compliant for all 50 states and insulated for all four USA climate zones, meaning they can withstand temperatures of both Tucson and Denver.

In addition, the community will be equipped with solar panels to be able to be off-grid, and the battery bank for each house will be able to store two days of power. Utilizing technology from a fellow UACI startup, the

container-homes will also store all necessary water on every floor.

“A lot of the work that we do is not pretending we know everything, it’s really about leveraging the connections the university has to get them to the people that do know those specific areas,” Smith said.

Although Stackhouse is leaving the Tucson area, Smith says the majority of startups UACI has served since 2003 have stayed in Arizona. But in the last year and a half, they’ve expanded their virtual footprint to serve companies that have never even existed in Southern Arizona.

“UACI is a place where if you’re a startup in their program and you need something, they will lift heaven and earth to help

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An architectural mockup of one of the container-home residential towers, planned for a community in Denver, which will have a total of 62 units.

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you be successful,” Briggs said. “It’s so amazing to be standing in the house we envisioned four years ago.

It’s real and I’m so proud of us and thankful for the support Tucson has given us.” ITB

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EMAIL YOUR REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS TO JEFF@TUCSONLOCALMEDIA.COM ble Trust, and Chautauqua Investments, LLP. The multi-tenant, industrial warehouse property, located at 1420-1434 and 15001524 E. Benson Highway in Tucson, was purchased for $1,360,000. Robert C. Glaser, SIOR, CCIM, Principal, situated on 0.40 acres, was and Industrial Specialist with purchased from Walter A. Cushman & Wakefield | PIKniaz and Frances M. X. C. COR, represented the seller Kniaz for $180,000. Ron in this transaction.

Zimmerman, Principal, and Industrial Specialist with CIC MGMT, LLC Cushman & Wakefield | PI- purchased a 20,130-squareCOR, represented the seller foot, lab/manufacturing in this transaction. building located on 1.73 acres in Grant Dragoon MWCDVM Holdings, Industrial Park, 1775 W. Sahuaro Dr. in Tucson. The The former estate of Tucson developer Donald Diamond was sold for more LLC purchased 1.70 acres than $3.5M. Courtesy photo. of vacant commercial land single-tenant, industrial located in Rita Ranch Com- property was purchased from selected as the agent to list Durkin Group at Russ Lyon merce Center, 9517 E. Old Boychick Enterprises, LLC the Diamond Estate, as this Sotheby’s International Re- Vail Rd. in Tucson. Lot 30 for $902,000. Cappsco home had never been on the alty. “We marketed this home was purchased from RockInternational Corp, an ing K Holdings, Limited market before,” said Bryan around the globe and were FAA Certified T53 Repair Durkin, an agent with The so pleased to find the perfect Partnership for $145,000.

Station, will occupy the buyer locally in Tucson who Ron Zimmerman, Principal, building. Stephen D. Cohen, and Industrial Specialist with Principal, and Industrial appreciated the value of such a unique property and Cushman & Wakefield | PI- Specialist with Cushman & COR, represented the seller Wakefield | PICOR, repreunderstands the Foothills.

This is a trophy property that in this transaction. sented the seller in this proves the old saying, ‘locatransaction.

Paul E. Monson and Jan tion, location, location’ when S. Monson purchased a talking about price.”

Blue Sky Self Storage 21,400-square-foot, mulDiamond, who died in Overton, LLC purchased 2019, was a prominent land ti-tenant, industrial incuba- 3.67 acres of vacant land developer and businessman tor building located at 4001 located at 2925 W. Overton S. Contractors Way in Tucwho worked in Tucson real Rd. and 9270 N. Shiraz Pl. son. The investment propestate for more than 50 in Tucson. The retail land erty, located on 2.38 acres, years. His notable projects parcel was purchased from was purchased from Gary L. O.S. West, LLC and O.S. include The Canyons, Atchison for $1,600,000.

Tucson Airport Commerce East, LLC for $703,910.

Stephen D. Cohen and Rob- Dave Hammack and Stephen Center, the Riverside Plaza ert C. Glaser, SIOR, CCIM, D. Cohen, Principals with and Paloma Village. His Principals, and Industrial philanthropic donations Cushman & Wakefield | PIincluded $15 million to build Specialists with Cushman & COR, represented the buyer Wakefield | PICOR, handled in this transaction. Randy the Diamond Children’s this transaction. Cohen Medical Center.

Emerson with GRE Partners, represented the seller; Glaser LLC, represented the seller. represented the buyer in this SALES transaction.

Paul E. Monson and Jan GERK Investments LLC S. Monson purchased a purchased a 624-squareThorinson, LLC pur9,900-square-foot industrifoot, single-tenant office chased 14,752 square feet al building with a yard, locatbuilding with a yard, located of industrial space from ed at 3525 S. Palo Verde Rd. at 1918 W. Price St. in TucMelvin S. Ross, Trustee of in Tucson. The single-tenson. The industrial property, the Melvin S. Ross Revocaant, industrial warehouse

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Highest Residential Real Estate Sale in the Catalina Foothills in More than a Decade expensive residential sale in the Foothills since 2007.

The Diamond Estate is loven if Tucson’s residen- cated in The Canyons neightial real estate market borhood of the Foothills, and wasn’t booming, the features a 7,632-square-foot sale of a 10,000+ square main house on a 7.3-acre foot estate in the Cataliestate. The estate also feana Foothills would still be tures a 2,500-square-foot newsworthy in the real estate guest house, a pool, sauna, world. But a strong sellwine cellar, jacuzzi and er’s market in Tucson and unobstructed views of Finger throughout the nation means Rock. the estate of Tucson land Construction on the estate developer Donald Diamond was completed in 1982, and was sold for more than $3.5 was designed by Southern million, according to Russ Arizona architect Lewis Hall, Lyon Sotheby’s International specifically for Diamond.

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property was purchased from Paul L. Greenberg and Joy A. Greenberg, Trustees of the Greenberg Living Trust, for $675,000. Ron Zimmerman, Principal, and Industrial Specialist with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR, represented the buyer in this transaction. John Hamner, CCIM, with RE/ MAX Excalibur, represented the seller.

Roca Holdings, LLC purchased a 10,393-squarefoot industrial building with a yard, located at 2660 E. Ganley Rd. in Tucson. The single-tenant, light-industrial property was purchased from Albatross Enterprises, LLC for $615,000. Pattison Engineering will occupy the building. Stephen D. Cohen, Principal, and Industrial Specialist with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR,

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represented the seller in this E. Grant Rd. in Tucson. The transaction. single-tenant office building was purchased from 6063 E. 4401S. Santa Rita, LLC Grant, LLC for $546,900. purchased a 7,055-squareThomas J. Nieman, Prinfoot industrial building with cipal, and Office Specialist with Cushman & Wakefield a yard, located at 4401 S. | PICOR, represented both Santa Rita Ave. in Tucson. parties in this transaction.

The single-tenant, office/ industrial property was purchased from Ruby InLEASES dustrial Technologies, LLC Tucson ADAS Calibration for $518,322. Paul Hooker, Center, LLC leased 3,034 Principal, and Industrial square feet of industrial Specialist with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR, and Wil- space at South Dodge Busiliam Honsaker, with Jones ness Center, 3631 E. 44th Lang LaSalle, represented St., Suite 125 in Tucson, the seller in this transaction. from Dodge Business Plaza Rob Tomlinson, Principal, Partners, LLC. Robert C. and Retail Specialist with Glaser, SIOR, CCIM, and Cushman & Wakefield | PI- Paul Hooker, Principals COR, represented the buyer. and Industrial Specialists with Cushman & Wakefield PetersenMoeller, LLC | PICOR, handled this purchased 4,452 square feet transaction. of office space located in Old Bloomie’s Flowers leased a Farm Executive Park, 6063 2,410-square-foot building

from Little Group, LLC, located at 6852 E. Tanque Verde Rd. in Tucson.

Bloomie’s focuses on large special events and will also be open to the public for flower purchases. Aaron LaPrise, Principal, and Retail Specialist with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR, represented the landlord in this transaction.

Quick Restore of Tucson, LLC leased 2,340 square feet of industrial space at Central Point Business Plaza, 3961 E. Speedway Blvd., Suites 409-410 in Tucson, from Central Point Tucson, LLC. Molly Mary Gilbert, Office Specialist with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR, represented both parties in this transaction.

Saguaro Learning, LLC, d/b/a Sylvan Learning of

Central Tucson, leased 1,600 square feet of office space, located in Midway Business Park, 4500 E. Speedway Blvd., Suite 15 in Tucson, from Presson Midway, LLC. Robert C. Glaser, SIOR, CCIM, and Paul Hooker, Principals, and Industrial Specialists with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR, handled this transaction.

Kent Hush leased 1,440 square feet of industrial space at Exchange Place, 1870 W. Prince Rd., Suite D-41 in Tucson, from Exchange Partners, LLC. Robert C. Glaser, SIOR, CCIM, Principal and Industrial Specialist with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR, represented the landlord in this transaction. Mark Klase with Tierra Antigua Realty,

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represented the tenant.

Keep Em Covered leased 1,250 square feet of retail space from H.L.F. Properties, Inc., located at 5921 E. 22nd St. in Tucson.

Principal, Dave Hammack, and Ryan McGregor, with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR, represented the landlord in this transaction. Eric Hutchens with Hutch Companies, LLC, represented the tenant.

Prince Hauling, LLC leased 1,200 square feet of industrial space at Exchange Place, 1870 W. Prince Rd., Suite F-64 in Tucson, from Exchange Partners, LLC. Robert C. Glaser, SIOR, CCIM, Principal and Industrial Specialist with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR, handled this transaction. ITB

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Flora’s Market Crudo Bar elevates the raw food conversation Matt Russell

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nly four dishes at the new Flora’s Market Run restaurant constitute the Crudo Bar section of its 25-dish menu, yet there are three full-time employees dedicated exclusively to its operations.

Crudo means “raw” in Italian, and this kind of staffing ratio suggests that the raw fish element of the Flora’s story is as significant as the wood-fired pizza, house-made pasta, grilled meats and other elements.

At the center of the story is Kyle Nottingham, chef/ partner with Tucson-based Ares Collective, which owns and operates Flora’s Market Run at 2513 E. Sixth Street.

But he’s not talking about items that you might see at a conventional raw bar. He’s talking crudo, a chef-driven program which elevates the raw food conversation.

“Crudo is really a balanced and composed dish,” said Nottingham. “There are elements of acid, of fat, of texture, and it’s about taking

Hamachi Crudo.Courtesy photo.

the nuances of whatever raw fish you’re working with and amplifying it with other ingredients.”

To further amplify the offering, Nottingham brought longtime fish monger Jamie TeBockhorst to the Flora’s team after 20 years of seafood superintendency at Canyon Ranch.

“Jamie brings an incredible amount of knowledge and close relationships with sustainable purveyors which makes our fish program pretty impressive,” he said.

“He’s a big deal.”

Leading off the Crudo Bar menu is the Hamachi Crudo, with raw yellowtail, fresh citrus, and a grapefruit, orange and sesame vinaigrette. The dish is topped with thinly sliced serrano chiles, fresh greens and Maldon salt.

“This is a simple and light dish with a crunch of salinity from the salt,” he said. “Hamachi is a delicate fish and we didn’t want to overcomplicate it.”

Tuna has a starring role on the Crudo Bar menu as well with the Torched Ahi. The raw fish is rubbed with togarashi, a Japanese spice blend, and torched to produce a

light crust. It’s plated with watermelon that’s been compressed to produce the same deep red color as the ahi and then dressed with a cherry blossom-infused soy sauce.

“This is a nice, bright, cooling, perfect for the summer crudo,” he said.

“And what’s fun is when the ahi and watermelon take on the same color, some people can’t tell the difference visually between the two.

The Crudo Bar also has an option for landlubbers, and the Kobe Wagyu Beef is a carnivorous variation on the crudo theme. It starts with shaved raw Wagyu beef from Texas which is topped with fried Brussels sprouts, fried chiles and roasted peanuts, and dressed with a sweet ponzu sauce.

“The Wagyu gives you all of that great marbling and fat, which is a nice contrast to the crunch from the Brussels and peanuts, as well as from the chiles that we cook down for hours, frying them in their own oil to render a dark, crispy, Sambal-style sauce,” he said.

Rounding out the Crudo Bar menu are Oysters Al Fresca, a rotating selection of

Flora’s Kobe Wagyu Beef is a carnivorous variation on the crudo theme. Courtesy photo.

raw oysters that are sourced from the waters of some of the world’s oyster capitals.

They’re served with mignonettes, horseradish, hot sauce, and lemon.

“We don’t just look at what oysters are available, we only bring in those that meet our harvest date specifications,”

he said. “We’re highlighting a different oyster almost every other night.”

Consider going crudo on your next visit to Flora’s Market Run. Start with a dish or two before you dive into a Mercado Pizza, the Short Rib Bolognese, or the Sumac-Crusted Lamb.

You might find that raw can really be rad. ITB Contact Matt Russell, whose day job is CEO of Russell Public Communications, at mrussell@russellpublic. com. Russell is also the publisher of OnTheMenuLive.com as well as the host of the Friday Weekend Watch segment on the “Buckmaster Show” on KVOI 1030 AM.

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WITH JEFF GARDNER

Meet Rob Elias, the new President/CEO of the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Now that you’re officially President/CEO of the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, what are some business plans you have for the local community?

I’m right in the middle of my third week in this role, and it’s been quite an ordeal trying to wrap my arms around all the facets of it. But it’s already been an amazing time. The one thing I can talk about is that chambers in general have done a phenomenal job helping local business through advocacy efforts, knowledge sharing, and creating connections.

But the business landscape is changing at an incredible pace, and we have to do a better job of understanding what is changing and how we can change within it. And the thing that’s causing this change are consumers. Consumers Courtesy photo are changing, and recent lthough Rob Elias says these goals made him a events of social change and has a new role at the natural fit for chambers of social justice conversations, Tucson Hispanic commerce, which took him as well as the pandemic, are magnifying this.

Chamber of Commerce, first to the Tucson Metro I’m a big believer that he’s no stranger to Tucson Chamber, and now to the or our business communi- Tucson Hispanic Chamber consumers are more aware of the powers we posty. A University of Arizoof Commerce. sess through our buying na graduate in political In his new role, Elias science, Elias has supported aims to create meaningful decisions and spending Tucson business for nearly change for minority-owned habits. It’s causing busi20 years, working with businesses. The nonprofit nesses to evolve and shift, everything from credit un- Tucson Hispanic Chamber and we have plans in the Hispanic Chamber of how ions to hotels to the Tucson of Commerce was incorwe’re going to address this Botanical Gardens. Elias’ porated in 1989, and in by evolving our offerings strengths mostly center 2013, was recognized by around marketing, comthe United States Hispanic and events… We’re eager munications and branding, Chamber of Commerce as to get started on them, but but he also co-founded the the Large Chamber of the we need to pace ourselves, which is hard to do Oro Valley Music Festival. Year.

His work focuses on “Tucson has an extremely sometimes. helping businesspeople, large and growing Latino either by connecting them community, and support- Now that COVID is windto business resources and ing them was just too great ing down, have you seen finances, or to similarly an opportunity to pass up,” any unique ways that Latino or minority-owned busiminded professionals. He Elias said.

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nesses are bouncing back or plans in the works, we’re supporting each other? obviously open to using our platform in any capacity that The Latino community is helps move business and the extremely resilient, and community of Tucson and they’re extremely loyal to Southern Arizona. If that the businesses and people revolves around music, we’re that run those businessmore than happy to explore es. And that’s one of the those opportunities. aspects we’re going to dive into in the Hispanic cham- What do you think are ber. We’re going to take a some of the biggest chalhuman-centric approach, lenges facing the Hispanic and the reason being that business community? Is 100% of businesses are run it mainly recovering from by human beings. This is COVID, or are there issues made even more apparent that are extending from in the Latino community, before the pandemic? where we are so ingrained in the connectivity of each There are definitely other. extended issues we need Our lives revolve around to talk about. We need to that connectivity. As things understand one thing: start to open up, because I Latinos by nature tend to think the Latino commugravitate towards starting a nity is a bit more cautious business, and for a numabout re-entering, it’s ber of reasons. Of course going to take us a little bit it feels good to be our own longer. But I think we will boss, and we want to create get back to the way things a legacy that our families used to be and support the can continue, and we’re businesses we so love. also interested in creating generational wealth and You helped organize the security.

Oro Valley Music Festival.

So one thing I feel LatiNow that public events are nos faced was a shrinking coming back, do you have support structure to help any plans for helping or them through the challengsupporting these events to es of entrepreneurship. It return? isn’t easy to start a business, and those challenges defiThat was an incredible nitely increase when you’re event that we put together, a minority-owned business. especially considering we Another challenge from had no experience putting before COVID, and someon an event of that magni- thing that we’ll continue to tude. But one idea morphed work on, is Latinos climbinto something much larger. ing the corporate ladder.

Now with the Hispanic The number of minority Chamber, it would be an CEOs of Fortune 500 comunderstatement to say that panies is staggeringly low, music, arts and culture are a and it hasn’t really grown big part of the Latino com- much in the past decade. munity. It’s an enormous Furthermore, the pay part of who we are. disparity among people While we don’t have any of color still continues to

be an issue. This causes Latinos on average to have a lower credit score and also impairs our ability to earn capital for businesses we want to create, or that we’ve already created.

What do you think makes Tucson an attractive place to have a business?

There is a long list of things I can talk about, one of which being our climate: the fact we have as much sunshine as we do, and we don’t have to worry about natural disasters, other than the heat during the summertime.

But probably the biggest contributor is the culture of who we are as a city and a people. We have such a rich heritage and culture within the business community that everyone seems to embody, regardless of whether you’ve been here for 90 years or nine days.

Everybody assimilates and gravitates to that coolness and unique factors we have here, anywhere from our vibrant murals to the interactions that people have with Tucsonans.

We are a bigger city, but it really doesn’t feel that way.

I like to say that Tucson is one-and-a-half degrees of separation, whereas everybody else is three or four degrees of separation, because everyone is so ingrained in each other. Now that’s not a tangible thing, but you can feel it.

That’s why I think people gravitate to Tucson. And we’re not a shrinking community by any stretch.

Despite the efforts of some, the growth is definitely happening here. ITB

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Minority-Owned Businesses Rank 2021 2020

Business Address

Phone Company Email Website

Top Local Executive

Year Establ.

Locally

1

Visiting Angels Tucson 7564 N La Cholla Blvd Tucson , AZ 85741

(520) 579-0099 mmsmith@visitingangels.com www.visitingangels.com/tucson

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Provider of essential personal in-home care. Our services include assistance with bathing and personal hygiene, dressing, medication reminders, meal preparation and meal planning, errands/shopping, companionship, light housekeeping, dementia and Alzheimer's care; up to 24/7 care, respite care for families, and Case Management. We also provide Medication Management by our RN.

Lydia Tully, Ph.D.

2008

2

Clearwave Solutions 310 S Williams Blvd #176 Tucson, AZ 85749

(520) 777-0655 info@getclearwave.com getclearwave.com

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Business VoIP, WiFi, General IT, Web Development

Allison Keeme Jeff Keeme

2005

3

Dependable Personnel, Inc. 700 N. Country Club Rd., Ste. 120 Tucson, AZ 85716

(520) 325-1131 info@dependablepersonnel.com dependablepersonnel.com

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Temp and temp-to-hire clerical staffing for professional settings, including but not limited to administrative, reception, legal secretary/assistant and medical clerical

Judy Warren

1994

4

SW Sun Control Products, Inc 816 E Evans Blvd Tucson, AZ 85713

(520) 792-1775 sales@swsuncontrol.com www.swsuncontrol.com

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Exterior and interior shade products and retractable awnings

Billie Meuschke

1997

5

Patient Care Advocates 2223 East Speedway Tucson, AZ 85719

(520) 546-4141 vperalta@pcatucson.com pcatucson.com

65

Caregiving, Home Health, Private Nursing, Veterans' Home Health, Hospital/Medical Advocacy

Alice Milton

2006

6

Qualified Mechanical Contracting, Inc. 1001 S. Euclid Ave. Tucson, AZ 85719

(520) 624-8988 nick@qualifiedmechanical.com qualifiedmechanical.com

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Mechanical contractor - plumbing, heating and air conditioning for commercial, industrial and residential

Nick Nieto

1985

7

Tucson Tamale Company 2550 N Dragoon St. #120, Tucson Tamale Co Tucson, AZ 85745

(520) 398-6282 sherry@tucsontamalecompany.com tucsontamale.com

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Consumer Packaged Goods

Sherry Martin Todd Martin

2008

8

Maly Construction 4729 E Sunrise Dr #312 Tucson, AZ 85718-4547

(520) 299-0856 info@malyandassociates.com www.malyandassociates.com

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Shopping Center Maintenance, Construction, Pest Control

Marigale Maly

1982

9

JanCo Janitorial 2907 E. 22nd Street Tucson, AZ 85713

(520) 889-6565 ggjanco@aol.com www.jancothecleanteam.org

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Janitorial Services and Cleaning & janitorial supplies

Kari Angelica Gallardo Ismael Gallardo

1989

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Ninyo & Moore Geotechnical & Environmental Consultants 1991 E. Ajo Way, Ste. 145 Tucson, AZ 85713

(520) 577-7600 fnarcaroti@ninyoandmoore.com www.ninyoandmoore.com

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Geotechnical, Environmental & Construction Materials Testing

Avram Ninyo

2008

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Ram Plumbing INC. 2500 N. Coyote Ste #112 Tucson, AZ 85745 The Architecture Company Mission Management & Trust Co. 2625 Silverbell Rd. Suite 235 3567 N. E Sunrise Drive, Tucson, Tucson, AZ AZ 85745 85718 Boreale Law, PLC Ruiz Masonry & Building Supplies, Inc. 177 Church, Suite 4249NW. Valencia Rd.1100 Tucson, AZ 85701 Tucson, AZ 85746 Esquema Architecture Dickey's Barbecue Pit 6418 E. Tanque Verde Rd., Ste. 102 7077 N Thornydale Tucson, AZ 85715 Rd Tucson, AZ 85741 Goldsmith Real Estate Edmund Marquez 5431 N. Oracle Road,Agencies Suite 191- Allstate Insurance 4420 E. AZ Speedway Tucson, 85704 Tucson, AZ 85712 Jacobs Assay Office Recyco, Inc. pintoresco 4510 camino 650 E 22nd St Ste 105 Tucson, AZ 85745 Tucson, AZ Arizona 85713 Electric, Inc Southern 1711 Avenida Stevens Film,Planeta Video, & Music Productions LLC Tucson, 85710 P.O. BoxAZ 22647 Tucson, AZ Computers, 85734 Xcentech LLC 7739 E. Broadway, Ste. 232 Tucson, AZ 85710 Mr. Electric of Tucson 8230 E. Broadway, ArcLight Pictures Ste. E-3 Tucson, AZ 85710 N/A Tucson, AZ 85743 Huber CPA PC Ranch 1861 NRolloffs Kolb Rd 5151 N Oracle Rd #134 Tucson, AZ 85715 Tucson, AZ 85704 Duck Soup Productions Untouchables 3350 N. CountryHeating Club Rd. & Cooling llc 3330 E Michigan Tucson, AZ 85716st Tucson, AZ 85714 Hilton & Myers Advertising Werth 3350 N.Environmental Country Club Rd.Design, LLC 5551 E. Paseo Bueno Tucson, AZ 85716 Tucson, AZ 85750 Creative Catering Corp.

Native Rainbows 727 3364E.E.Holaway PopinacDr. Loop Tucson, AZ AZ 85716 85719 Tucson,

(520) 747-8089 ramplumbingoffice@gmail.com https://www.bestplumbertucson.com/ (520) 622-4506 577-5559 marketing@architecturecompany.net info@missiontrust.com architecturecompany.net www.missiontrust.com (520) 883-5940 334-2069 (520) info@borealelaw.com rudyruizmasonry@aol.com www.borealelaw.com N/A (520) 546-0350 (520) 638-8030 esquema@esquema-arch.com dickeysmarana@gmail.com www.esquema-arch.com https://www.dickeys.com/location (520) 219-3100 (520) 323-9333 info@goldsmithtucson.com edmundmarquez@allstate.com www.goldsmithtucson.com allstate.com/edmundmarquez (520) 622-0813 (520) 622-3211 jacobsassayoffice@yahoo.com cs@recycoinc.com N/A www.recycoinc.com (520) 747-1274 saesparky@aol.com (520) 250-6472 N/A ohs2@aol.com gostevensproductions.com (520) 271-4733 service@xcentech.com xcentech.com (520) 319-8658 mrselectrictucson@gmail.com (520) 230-1992 mrelectric.com info@arclightpictures.com ArcLightPictures.com (520) 360-5573 (520) 408-7253 robert@hubercpa.com N/A www.hubercpa.com ranchrolloffs.com (520) 881-4550 (520) 631-3425 info@ducksoupproductions.net Untouchableshnc@gmail.com ducksoupproductions.net www.untouchableshandc.com (520) 881-4550 (520) 577-9256 info@hiltonmyersadv.com werthdesign@comcast.net hiltonmyersadv.com werthenvironmentaldesign.com (520) (520) 690-0146 325-6817 info@tucsoncreativecatering.com NativeRainbows@aol.com tucsoncreativecatering.com NativeRainbows.com

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Plumbing contractor

1983

4 11

Architectural services Investment management, trust, ira

3 11

Legal Services Masonry construction

Erik R. Carrasco Ramon Carrasco Mark Carrasco Kegan CarmenTom Bermudez Richard Tom Carmen Fe Bermudez Carmen Bermudez Michael Rudy RuizBoreale Sr.

3 10

Planning, commercial, industrial, educational, single and multi-family residential architecture

Ygnacio Arturo Coppola Laura Weaver Juan De La Torre

1993

3 10

Real estate sales and property management.

Insurance/Financial Products

Ellen Golden Edmund Marquez Claud Smith

2015

3

Testing the purity of precious metals such as gold and silver

Mike Jacobs

1880

3

Electrical contractor

Andrea Leisner

1963

Sam Trejo

2004

Rachael C. Richards Brad Cota-Francis W. Richards Elisa Bobby Francis Robert Huber

1994 2015

Snap Fitness 24-7 Octavia Media 7545 Rd #200 1037 SS Houghton Alvernon Way Tucson, AZ 85747 Tucson, AZ 85711

22 25

25 12 29 12 29 14 29 14 29 16 29

16 29 18 35 19 35 20 35 20 35 22 39 22 39

No. of F-T Products/Services Local Employees

8

8 3

Dine In / Take Out / Catering / Food Truck Event Catering

Purchaser of scrap metals from the public and private sector

HD production and digital editing full-service in studio or on-location, broadcast media support services, sports, news, infomercials, corporate videos, commercials, streaming video, instructional/training viraland marketing, electronic press kits, electronic news Computer consulting,video, hardware softwarepodcasting, sales gathering, digital cinema, live streaming

Olga H. Gallego Marco A. Gallego Oscar H. Stevens II

1981 1994 2012 1976

2015

1996

1985

1988

7 2

Residential and commercial electrical services Film & Television Production

7 2

Accounting and Tax Dumpster rental / waste management

6 2

Full-service film and HD digital video production Air conditioning company service repair and installation

Ariel Terisse Chang Francisco M Moreno

2004 2015

6 2

Full-service agency and broadcast production company Interior design, space planning, kitchen and bath remodels

Ariel Chang Marilyn Anderson

1986 1991

5 1

Off-premise catering and event planning Native American Items

M.J. Essenmacher L. Karin Elliott Bill Essenmacher Keri Essenmacher

1985 2000

(520) 861-4556 (520) 729-5557 info@snapfitnesstucson.com info@octaviamedia.com snapfitness.com www.octavia.social

5 1

Wellness-wt loss-strength Digital Marketing Services

Frank Robles Andrae L. Jones

2006 2015

Southwest Appraisal Associates

(520) 327-0000

5

Real estate appraisal and consulting

Steven R. Cole

1982

Affinity Wealth Management 2476 E River Road

(520) 795-3360 taunya.kvillicana@lpl.com

4

Wealth Management / Investment Advisors

Angela Baurley, MBA Taunya Villicana

2002

Ranked by the6019 number of full-time E. Grant Rd. local employees (2 P-T = 1 F-T) steve@swaa.biz Ranked information is provided by business representatives at no charge and is ranked alphabetically in case of ties. Other businesses were contacted but either declined or did not respond by deadline. There is no charge to be included in Inside Tucson Business listings.

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