Scottsdale Airpark News - Dec. 2016

DECEMBER 2016

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December 2016 contents

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FEATURES 20 | Wired for success SOHO Scottsdale a place to live, work and play.

43 | Majesty of Arabians up close ArabHorse Farm Tour trots out a peek behind the gates.

TAKING FLIGHT

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24 | Where new pilots get their wings Flight schools are big business at Scottsdale Airport.

28 | Citations and salutations Entrepreneur David Pulver builds aviation business from hobby.

33 | She flies without a plane Aerialist Michelle Milan lands Dominican Republic Cirque du Soleil gig.

36 | Elite party takes flight The Band Perry soars during private Hangar One engagement.

SPOTLIGHT 38 | A cocktail in a bottle Airpark man follows a vision to create Coco21.

40 | Bottoms up Where to party for the holidays – Scottsdale style.

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45 | Remember when Flashback 2016: Another year of growth, success in the Airpark.

52 | Dining Destinations The Thumb: Romance of the road with quality of Scottsdale.

55 | Dining Destinations Passport Coffee’s passion for caffeine oozes from its pours.

61 | Caught You Looking Good It's a beautiful day at ‘World’s Greatest Polo Party’

COLUMNS 58 | Talking Tourism ‘Twas month of Christmas, not a tourist was stirring.

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62 | Legal Perspectives Tom Sadvary is epitome of leadership in Scottsdale.

64 | Commercial Real Estate and You Pay close attention to notices and critical dates.

66 | Financial Fundamentals Learn 8 key features of the ideal investment.

69 | Coach’s Corner Making corporate relocation fun for all.

4 | Editor’s Note 6 | Business News 52 | Dining Destinations 72 | Business Directory

77 | Advertiser Index 78 | Business Horoscope 79 | Scottsdale Airpark Map

On the cover: David Pulver has turned his hobby into a multi-milliondollar aviation business.

Photo by Will Powers

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Editor’s Note 1620 W. Fountainhead Pkwy., Ste 219, Tempe, Arizona 85282 Phone: (480) 348-0343 • Fax: (480) 348-2109 Website: www.scottsdaleairpark.com

Wheels Up with our Aviation Issue

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usiness is always taking off at the Scottsdale Airpark. But this month, we focus tighter within the Greater Airpark to the airport itself, with a look at pilot training, private-jet charters and sales, and more.

Self-proclaimed “geek” David Pulver, whose background is software and information technology, always loved aviation and dabbled in it as a hobby for years.

Eventually, it grew to be his livelihood in the form of the highly successful Pulver Aviation, located in the Scottsdale Airpark. With two Citation X jets now counted among his 10-aircraft fleet, Pulver’s rapidly growing company is capable of covering the world as a charter and air-ambulance service.

Some of the earthbound among us have dreamed of getting a pilot’s license. This month, our own Jimmy Magahern sampled that experience when he flew with Scott Campbell, owner and chief flight instructor at Airpark-based Roberta Peterson Sierra Charlie Aviation.

Editor In Chief Jimmy briefly got his hands on the stick, and that was enough to influence his final decision. Read his story, and learn about Campbell’s and other Airpark flight schools, on page 24.

Country group The Band Perry, always a coveted ticket on tour, appeared for an even more exclusive private engagement at the Airpark’s swanky Hangar One recently. Learn more about the event and the spacious facility, located alongside the Scottsdale Airport runway, on page 36.

Did you know it’s possible to fly in the Airpark without an aircraft?

Scottsdale’s Michelle Milan quit her day job to become a trapeze artist/ aerialist performing in many venues including the Airpark’s Hangar One. Then, in a trapeze-worthy twist, she was off to the Dominican Republic for a six-month gig with Cirque du Soleil, performing and teaching at Club Med Punta Cana. She did take a jet to get there.

You’ll also want to read about the Scottsdale man who bottled a popular cocktail – page 40 – and visit the Airpark’s increasingly well-known upscale car-and-truck wash, The Thumb – page 52.

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Waterfront Staffing receives Best Businesses of Scottsdale Award

Waterfront Staffing LLC is winner of the 2016 Best Businesses of Scottsdale Award in the Employment Agencies category.

This is the second time since 2014 that Waterfront has been selected.

Each year, the Best Businesses of Scottsdale Award Program identifies companies that have achieved exceptional marketing success in their community and business category.

These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community.

Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners, focusing on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Best Businesses of Scottsdale Award Program and data provided by third parties.

M&A industry leader Fox announces retirement

Merger and acquisition advisor Bruce Fox, co-founder of IBG Fox & Fin, has announced his retirement.

A 25-year veteran of business sales and past president of the Arizona Business Brokers Association, Fox, 85, has long been among Arizona’s leading M&A specialists. With business partner Jim Afinowich, in 1993 he co-founded Fox & Fin Financial Group, which quickly gained regional and, ultimately, national prominence among M&A, investment banking and business broker firms.

Scottsdale-based Fox & Fin has earned Ranking Arizona’s No. 1 ranking for 14 consecutive years. In 2015, Fox & Fin became a founding member of IBG Business, a national network of leading M&A advisory firms

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Grammy winner Steven Tyler to sell rare Hennessey Venom GT Spyder to benefit Janie’s Fund at Barrett-Jackson auction Barrett-Jackson will auction a Hennessey Venom GT Spyder owned by rock and roll legend Steven Tyler at its 46th Annual Scottsdale Auction in January 2017.

This rare supercar is the fifth of only 12 Hennessey Venom GTs ever created and first of the Spyder convertibles. It will cross the auction block at No Reserve, with 100 percent of the hammer price benefiting Janie’s Fund, an initiative created in partnership with Tyler and Youth Villages to bring hope and healing for many of the country’s most vulnerable girls who have suffered the trauma of abuse and neglect.

“A world-renowned celebrity like Steven Tyler donating a car as rare and desirable as the Hennessey Venom GT Spyder will undoubtedly be the next great moment for charity cars in Scottsdale, and I’m proud

that Barrett-Jackson can be a platform to support a wonderful cause like Janie’s Fund,” said Craig Jackson, chairman and CEO of Barrett-Jackson.

Tyler’s Venom GT Spyder is the convertible version of the record-setting Venom GT that recorded a top speed of 270.49 mph at Kennedy Space Center in 2014. This specific vehicle belonging to Tyler is the first of the six Spyder convertibles produced. The 7.0liter V8 engine produces 1,244 horsepower that muscles the 2,743-pound convertible from 0-60 mph in 2.7 seconds and 0-200 mph in 14.5 seconds. This car also has a custom JL Audio stereo system befitting a rock and roll superstar.

Barrett-Jackson’s 46th Annual Scottsdale Auction is Jan. 14-22 at WestWorld of Scottsdale.

Bonobos opens in Scottsdale Quarter E-commerce-driven menswear brand Bonobos has opened it’s first Scottsdale store at Scottsdale Quarter.

Bonobos Guideshop Scottsdale is a new take on retail pioneered by the brand in 2011.

Its “clicks to bricks” “ retail concept blends online and offline shopping, is innovating the way brands think about retail and is revolutionizing the in-person shopping experience by focusing on top-notch service

and eliminating the hassles of traditional retail, with its lines, crowd, broken sizes and awkward fitting-room experience.

Customers are assigned a Guide upon arrival, similar to personal shoppers, to access the entire inventory online.

The Scottsdale Quarter shop is the brand’s 28th nationwide. …continues on page 10

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Seattle PD selects TASER’s Axon platform for cameras, software The Seattle Police Department has selected Axon, a business unit of Airparkbased TASER International, and a global leader in digital evidence-management solutions, for its body-worn video platform.

In addition, Seattle police will secure a subscription to Evidence.com, Axon’s cloud-based digital-evidence management platform. The initial deployment of cameras is estimated to start in December.

Seattle PD’s decision follows an exten-

sive body-camera pilot program that tested Axon’s body-worn camera and digital evidence management solution against five competitors. In the final round of scoring, TASER’s Axon platform received the highest marks, scoring nearly double the points against two competing body camera vendors.

Axon also recently announced its next generation point-of-view body camera, Axon Flex 2, the successor to TASER’s

groundbreaking original Axon Flex bodyworn camera. Flex 2 features a number of compelling improvements over its predecessor.

With a host of advanced new mounting options, Flex 2 increases retention strength by over 300% while maintaining the flexibility for easy, rapid repositioning between mounts. New cable-management systems ensure continuous connections for enhanced reliability.

Roaring Fork appoints new chef

David LaForce has been named executive chef/culinary director for Roaring Fork Restaurant in Scottsdale.

LaForce, with more than 25 years in the industry, will oversee all culinary operations within the restaurant, handle all specialty menu creations and supervise all of the culinary staff.

LaForce was executive chef for Prospect Bay Country Club on Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay as well as executive chef at Continental Mid-town and Alma de Cuba in Philadelphia. He also worked under acclaimed chef Janos Wilder at the prestigious Janos restaurant in Tucson after culminating an externship at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess.

Westin Kierland Golf Club Open Championship Dec. 10-11

The Westin Kierland Golf Club will host its 2 nd annual Golf Club Open Championship on Dec. 10-11.

Open to the public, the event will offer two rounds of golf, lunch each day, a variety of prizes, and a value-packed tee package that includes discount offers, such as a $69 replay.

“The Westin Kierland Golf Club is known for its commitment to innovation and fun. This championship is no different. Whether you play for fun, or

to compete, you’ll enjoy two days of great golf, and also have the opportunity to earn the distinction of being named the Club Champion of one of the finest golf courses in Scottsdale, ” said Nancy Dickens, director of Golf at The Westin Kierland Resort & Spa. Flights will be established at registration deadline. Cost to enter is $199 plus tax.

For information or to register, contact the Kierland Golf Shop at 480-624-1620 or email steven.archer@westin.com.

Sky Harbor to get $950 million expansion

Phoenix City Council approved a $950 million plan that adds gates to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport’s Terminal 4 and extends Sky Train’s route by 2021.

The plans call to extend Sky Train to the Rental Car Center at the airport, with the goal of easing congestion by eliminating the need for fleets of buses.

Terminal 4 will get a new, eight-gate concourse because of the investment.

The expansion will be funded by existing passenger fees, other airport revenue and bonds. …continues on page 12

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Granada hires work-fromhome entrepreneur Felix Serrano as CEO

Alkaline Water Co. continues rapid growth

Airpark-based Alkaline Water Co. continues rapid growth of its innovative state-of-the-art proprietary electrolysis beverage process packaged and sold in 500ml, 700ml, 1-liter, 3-liter and 1-gallon sizes under the trade name Alkaline88.

The Arizona-based company will expand distribution of its bottled alkaline water to Hawaii with wholesaler Young’s Market.

Founded in 1888, Young’s Market Company is the industry leader in wholesale distribution of wines, spirits and select beverages in the western United States. The agreement entails placement of the Alkaline88 brand in 7-11 convenience outlets throughout the Islands, Food Pantry Stores and several other independent retail stores in Hawaii.

The agreement also includes distribution in many Accents and Lamonts hotel specialty shops that are located in prominent hotels such as Marriott, Westin, Hyatt, Ala Moana and others, as well as Whalers General Stores.

• Alkaline88 is coming soon to 1,100 Food Lion Supermarkets, increasing to 1,800 the additional stores that will be carrying the brand in the Southeastern U.S. This

expansion alone is expected to add 8% or greater revenue in fiscal 2018.

• Alkaline announced that it is tripling manufacturing capacity in the southeast to meet this growing demand, working with Nantze Springs, its Arlington, Georgiabased bottler.

• Alkaline also recently added Super One Foods to its growing list of Midwest chains as it expands into that region. Super One Foods is a chain of supermarkets with 29 stores in Minnesota, Wisconsin and upper Michigan.

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Granada Corporation of Scottsdale, a pioneer in work-from-home customer support solutions, announced that it has hired virtual customer-support entrepreneur Felix A. Serrano as chief executive officer.

Serrano is among the industry’s recognized experts in the home-based customer support delivery model.

Prior to Granada, Serrano held senior leadership roles with Sitel Work@Home Solutions, Vertex Business Services, Alpine Access and Teletech. At Sitel, a $1.5B revenue business process outsourcer, Serrano designed, implemented, operated and led the global expansion of what is largely regarded as one of the fastest growing Work@Home solutions in the industry. As a member of Sitel’s Extended Executive Leadership Team, he also held key responsibilities for strategic, global transformational initiatives.

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Caliber COO Jennifer Schrader named to Real Estate Forum’s ‘50 Under 40’ Real Estate Forum announced its “Top 50 Under 40” best-in-class young commercial real estate executives for its annual roster of up-and-coming leaders, and among them is Scottsdale-based Caliber-The Wealth Development Company’s COO and co-founder Jennifer Schrader.

Since Schrader co-founded the company in 2008, Caliber has grown to more than $250 million in assets under management

and over 500 employees.

As COO, Schrader is responsible for leading asset investment and acquisition team strategy for incoming properties. In the past year alone, Caliber has strengthened its portfolio by acquiring more than $100 million in new assets under management encompassing a diversified commercial, residential and hospitality properties throughout Arizona, Nevada and Alaska.

Wealth manager Matthew Miller joins Rowland Carmichael

Wealth manager Matthew Miller, CFP, has joined Rowland Carmichael Advisors, Inc. An alum of Brophy College Prep and Santa Clara University, Miller began his financial services career in 2001. He holds the Certified Financial Planner designation and an MBA from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas.

Miller is a former vice president with Dimensional Fund Advisors, a Texas-based money management firm.

Scottsdale businessman celebrates 25 years of community service

Scottsdale businessman Darryl Toupkin recently celebrated 25 years of working in the Scottsdale community and the 20th anniversary of his corporation, FieldWorks Events and Marketing Inc. Not only has he transformed an ASU degree in non-profit business management into a profitable event management company, he has also made a difference in the community.

Throughout his career, he has worked closely with a variety of charities and community groups to raise money and create successful fund-raising events. He personally has been among the top fund raisers for Multiple Sclerosis, Leukemia & Lymphoma (Team in Training) and the Lance Armstrong Foundation. To date, Toupkin and his company, FieldWorks Events & Marketing, have donated in excess of $250,000.

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J.McLaughlin announced new location in Scottsdale

J.McLaughlin, a clothing and accessories brand for women and men, is opening a Kierland Commons store at 15220 N. Scottsdale Road that features a full assortment of women’s and men’s product.

This is its first in Arizona and 111th location for the company.

J.McLaughlin was founded by brothers, Kevin and Jay McLaughlin in 1977 with a goal of creating a new American sportswear brand based in New York and built on several basic concepts: classic clothes with current relevance, sold in a friendly retail environment that has a neighborhood feel. It occupies some of the most picturesque main-street real estate in America.

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Governor’s Arts Awards nominations open

Nominations are now open for the 36th Annual Governor’s Arts Awards, which will be presented in eight categories to individuals, businesses and organizations that have made substantial and outstanding contributions to arts and culture in Arizona.

Deadline for nominations, which should be submitted online at www.azcitizensforthearts.org/governors-arts-awards, is 5 p.m., Friday, Dec. 16.

Winners will be announced at the Governor’s Arts Awards dinner and celebration, May 4, 2017, at the Phoenician Resort.

Among the categories: • Small Business: Recognizing small, private businesses (1-99 employees), demonstrating significant support locally or statewide, through a contribution of time, energy, personnel, expertise and/or financial support or by participation in activities which foster excellence in, appreciation of, or access to the arts.

• Large Business: Recognizing large (100-plus employees) private businesses demonstrating significant support through time, energy and/or financial support or by participation in activities which foster excellence in, appreciation of, or access to the arts throughout the state.

Cushman & Wakefield awarded One Scottsdale sale assignment

DMB, in partnership with Macerich, has awarded Cushman & Wakefield the marketing assignment for the nearly 14-acre, mixed-use commercial core of One Scottsdale.

Cushman & Wakefield land division executive managing mirector Brent Moser, senior vice president Michael Sutton, associate Brooks Griffith and retail division vice president Brent Mallonee have the sale assignment for the mixed-use core of the project.

“One Scottsdale is an important

project for DMB, and this 14-acre mixeduse core is critical in driving the overall vision and plan for the property,” said Mike Burke, Vice President of Commercial for DMB. One Scottsdale is a 120-acre mixeduse development located at Loop 101 and Scottsdale Road. Upon completion, it will include 2.8 million square feet of space for retail, restaurants, Class A office and commercial tenants, including 2,000 mixed-use residential units and 400 boutique hotel rooms.

ASU student awarded annual Rudy R. Miller Business-Finance Scholarship A photo accompanying this announcement is available at http://www.globenewswire. com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/9947dba53a82-4ea9-941f-1d5f8e12c828 Curtis R. Christian, an Arizona State University senior, who is pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and a Bachelor of the Arts degree in Sports & Media studies, has been awarded the ninth annual Rudy

R. Miller Business-Finance Scholarship, the sponsoring Miller Group of Scottsdale announced.

Christian has maintained a 3.9 grade point average along with working 25 hours per week for the Phoenix Suns and ASU Housing, while also holding a voluntary Basketball Statistics internship.

Rudy R. Miller, chairman, president and

CEO of the affiliated group of Miller entities, originated the scholarship in 2008 to express his support of ASU, in particular the W. P. Carey School of Business, and to encourage and recognize academic excellence by outstanding students. The scholarship is determined by merit and awarded annually to a junior or senior pursuing a degree in Finance or Business Administration.

Flywheel Sports opens in Scottsdale Quarter

Flywheel Sports, the revolutionary indoor cycling brand, opened its first Arizona studio, in the Scottsdale Quarter, on Nov.21. Flywheel is more than just a workout it aims to guide, challenge and grow students.

At Flywheel: • Rides are inclusive, authentic, empowering and offer a truly personalized, unique experience for a diversified base of customers.

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• Instructors carefully craft high-energy playlists to further motivate and push riders past limits.

• The proprietary on-bike and in-stadium technology enhances workouts, providing riders with a results-driven experience unlike any other. The performance tracking technology helps keep riders accountable with every pedal stroke taken.

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SOHO Scottsdale A place to live, work and play for professionals

By Tanner Stechnij

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he Airpark has been a magnet for residential development for some time, but a unique concept separates the new SOHO Scottsdale, a live-work-play luxury condominium community, from the pack.

SOHO Scottsdale, at 16510 N. 92nd St., just off Loop 101 and East Bell Road on the Airpark’s eastern edge, aims to attract professionals to a high-tech environment.

The developer is targeting entrepreneurs.

“It is for people who want a lifestyle that allows them to work and live in their own space,” said Irene Catsibris Clary, owner of Airpark-based Catclar Investments, developer of the project. “It allows them an office on the first level, commercial on the second level and then they live in the townhome.”

The luxury community, which opens in 2017, will have 12 buildings on 5 acres,

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including 10 lofts and 64 townhouses, as well as 8,000 square feet of retail space.

Pricing begins in the mid $600,000s and top out at more than $1 million.

All units will be wired for Smart Home technology so that owners can control lights, appliances and other amenities remotely, and Cox Gigablast internet.

There is retail/restaurant space on the first floor of the loft building. The lofts are

entirely dual zoned for living and office space. Townhouses are zoned for business on the first and second levels, with an ADA compliant office on the first floor.

It’s an ambitious, unique undertaking, and unusual because it is not in a highly urbanized area, according to Michael Bronska, faculty associate at Arizona State University, who specializes in real estate.

He says he has concerns about the prospects of a work-live complex in a suburban area.

“The thing about downtown Scottsdale and downtown Phoenix is that you don’t have to get in your car and drive places,” Bronska said. “You can bike, you can walk, you can use the Metro (light rail), whereas in Scottsdale, at the Airpark, you really have to get in your car to drive to the grocery store

and other places.”

Clary, however, expects most residents to own autos.

“We are two minutes away from the highway (Loop 101), a bike ride away from the McDowell Mountains,” she said. “We have WestWorld and the TPC golf course – you are in the center of where a lot of things take place in Scottsdale.”

Nearby amenities include AZ on the Rocks, a rock-climbing gym, and The Thumb fresh market.

SOHO Scottsdale sits on a courtyard with landscaping, trees and art pieces, and will feature life-sized Lego pieces. Some of the buildings will have muraled walls.

“My theme for the project is connectivity and that is where the Lego pieces come

from,” Clary said. “It is a combination of man, nature and technology. If you think about it, those are the three elements that most interact together.”

Clary and her team are working with Scottsdale officials to ensure that the complex is certified an International Green Construction Code space. Director of Construction Eli Setton found this to be an important aspect of designing a luxury complex in the 21st century.

“All of the lumber is coming from a sustainable forest and we are using a certain amount of recyclable products in the development,” Setton said. “In addition to that, a lot of the waste is being recycled and it should get the International Green Construction Code certification from Scottsdale.”

The nine floor plans, each named after a classical artist, range from the Dali at 2,243 square feet with two bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms; to the four-story DaVinci, nearly 4,000 square feet with three bedrooms and four bathrooms.

Bing Hu of H&S International designed the lofts and townhouses.

Seven units were sold through November and the new owners come from such diverse career paths as doctors and inventors.

Residents will be moving into the townhouses in January and February and the lofts will be opening in May and June.  Tanner Stechnij is a student at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

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Aerodyne Flight Center is the only Airpark aviation school that gives training on the Redbird Flight Simulator to augment time in the Cessna 172 Skyhawk.

Flight schools are big business at Scottsdale Airport Story by Jimmy Magahern Photos by Will Powers

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e are flying high over the TPC Scottsdale golf course on an early Thursday morning, squinting into the sun still rising over the fog-cloaked McDowell Mountains, when fight instructor Scott Campbell hears something in his headset that apparently catches him by surprise.

Over the din of the aircraft’s engine, it sounds like the air-traffic control operator is saying something about another plane “over the top.”

“Alright,” he says, maintaining the relentlessly upbeat tone he’s sustained all morning.

“Well, you’re going to get to see us do something that you usually don’t see on your first flight!”

Campbell pauses to listen to a few more commands from the air-traffic controller at Scottsdale Airport, which is now coming quickly into sight.

“So she just asked us to make a ‘short approach,’ so we need to simulate that we’ve lost our engine now,” he says calmly, taking control of the throttle. “The power’s all the way out now, we’re trying to slow it down to our best glide speed. I’ve got the runway in sight here, there it is. OK.” Former professional photographer Doug Cox and ex-plastics It’s been less than an executive Larry Barna teamed to found Aerodyne Flight Center.

hour since I first set foot in Sierra Charlie Aviation, a year-old flight school next door to the Scottsdale Airport terminal. And already I’m 2,500 feet in the air, nervously holding onto the yolk of a Cessna 172 Skyhawk as the amiable pilot I’ve just met begins a steep descent to the runway with air traffic just behind.

“So we’re landing completely without power now. We’re just gliding,” he says, coolly. In the headphones, the air-traffic controller warns, “Traffic, 12 o’clock, low, zero miles.”

Flight schools are big business in the Airpark.

There are scores of them up and down Airport Drive, which each share space along the busy airport’s single runway. But only Sierra Charlie offers a $199 “Discovery Flight” that lets any newbie get immediately into the cockpit of a small single-engine plane and go up in the air with the instructor within a single lunch hour.

Owner and senior flight instructor Campbell believes that’s the best way to give someone who is curious about flying a sense of what it’s all about.

“It’s one of those things that unless you get to actually experience it yourself, you’ll never know whether or not it’s for you,” he says earlier, leading this first-time, small-plane flyer out onto the runway.

“Some people come in, interested in flying, but they’re not sure it’s for them. Going up on a Discovery Flight is the easiest way to determine if it’s something that you’ll enjoy and can see yourself doing.”

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Usually, that first flight is enough to let the person say, ‘Gives me goose bumps, I love it, I want to do it!’ or ‘Meh, it’s not quite right for me.’ It’s pretty evident on the first flight whether the person wants to get into it.” included, begins with classes on the ground to get the student prepared and confident in their knowledge of the airplane they’ll be piloting. It then takes a minimum of 40 hours of flight time, including 10 hours of solo flight time, to qualify a candidate for the license.

But Campbell, who first learned to fly during his training as a U.S. Marine in Pensacola, Florida, believes that the first-time flyer needs to fall in love with aviation first.

“Usually, that first flight is enough to let the person say, ‘Gives me goose bumps, I love it, I want to do it!’ or ‘Meh, it’s not quite right for me.’ It’s pretty evident on the first flight whether the person wants to get into it,” he says.

Myself, I’m quite content to hand the controls off to Campbell as the plane begins its steep descent. Even under these circumstances, Campbell remains calm and reassuring.

“Well, you’re OK to put your hands on your controls and kind of feel along as I get it going,” he says.

Finally, Campbell brings the plane to a smooth, perfect landing, taxiing safely out of range of a large private jet that’s getting prepared to take off.

“Alright, just like that!” he says. “What did you think? Pretty neat, huh?”

The ramp along the 8,249-foot runway at Scottsdale Airport is filled with a combination of private jets, helicopters and small, fixed-wing propeller aircraft.

Deb Lapmardo, flight director at Elite Flight Training, says it’s easy to spot which

The Redbird Flight Simulator is used for pilot training at Aerodyne Flight Center in the Airpark.

aircraft belong to the flight schools.

“You can see some of them sitting down there on the ramp, with the wing on the top,” she says, motioning toward a fleet of nearly identical-looking Cessna 172s, which she says is the typical plane used by flight instructors.

“What we fly in is a Cirrus SR 20, which is a technically advanced aircraft. The cockpits of these airplanes are 100 percent computerized. The Cirrus SR20s also have incredible safety features, including a Traffic Collision Avoidance System, or TCAS, terrain warning systems, advanced flight directors, autopilot and even what they call a total airframe parachute. The airframe is built around a parachute, so in the event of a serious emergency — we’ve never had one, there’s never been one at the Scottsdale Airport — you pull the handle and a rocket-fired parachute brings the entire aircraft to the ground.”

Lapmardo says the technically advanced aircraft that Elite flies is just part of what makes her flight school different. The other part is her husband, Chuck, a former commercial airline captain, with a coveted FAA Airmen Certification and more than 15,000 hours of flight experience. Elite employs four other full-time instructors who are all former airline pilots.

“The typical flight school is run by often younger guys who want to learn to fly,” she says. “The ones who want to be airline pilots first have to get all of their ratings, which takes a year or two to get all of the different certifications they need. But the FAA rule is you cannot apply for an airline job until you have accumulated about 1,500 hours of flying time. So how do you get that, when no one’s going to pay you to fly commercially?

“It’s like a Catch 22: You don’t have

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enough flying time to get paid, but you can’t get paid until you have enough time.

So what these guys do to build their time is they instruct. That’s the way you build your flight time in order to be able to apply for an airline job. The problem is, now you have a relatively inexperienced instructor teaching a brand new student.”

Lapmardo, who is in his mid 50s, says he got the idea to start a flight school staffed by more experienced instructors flying more expensive aircraft after talking with a friend, a successful business owner, who had grown tired of flying on commercial airlines and had purchased a $1 million Piper Meridian to use for his own air travel.

“I went to one of the annual conventions these aircraft owners attend called M/ MOPA, for Malibu/Mirage Owners and Pilots Association,” Lapmardo says (this year’s was a week-long blowout in New Orleans). “And I was amazed by the number of guys there just like my friend. Everybody had their own business, and everybody had these million-dollar-plus airplanes. So when I left the airline, I thought, ‘This is the market we want to train. And the Scottsdale Airpark is the best possible place to do it.”

Deb agrees.

“People here will fly up to Sedona for breakfast or fly out to the coast for the weekend,” she says. “It’s a level of clientele you won’t find in a lot of other cities.”

“It’s not the young kids anymore who are going for their pilot’s license, in part because aviation has gotten so expensive,” adds Chuck. “When I started flying in 1976, it was $7 for the instructor and $22 for the airplane — $29 an hour, including fuel. Now you’re looking at around $200, on the average,

for the airplane, $100 for fuel, $100 for the instructor. That’s $400 an hour. So the young kid now who wants to get into flying, he just can’t afford it.

“It’s a whole different marketplace now,” he says. “But Scottsdale is perfect for it.”

While the cost of flight lessons has, indeed, soared over the years, at least one Airpark flight school has figured out a high-tech way to keep prices down a bit for customers.

A few years back, former professional photographer Doug Cox and ex-plastics manufacturing exec Larry Barna became friends while working as instructors at a flight-simulator company in the Airpark. The two became so adept with the specialized technology that they decided to purchase their own Redbird Flight Simulator, a state-of-the-art machine able to replicate the configurations for both the Cessna 172 and two versions of the Cirrus aircraft, and opened their own flight school, Aerodyne Flight Center, in a couple of office spaces in the Air Commerce Center at the south end of Airport Drive.

Today Aerodyne is the only flight school at the Airpark offering instruction in both the Redbird simulator and the standard Cessna 172. Cox says learning on the simulator, which costs $99 per hour .plus another $60 per hour for the instruction, saves clients both

a lot of time and money over getting all their training inside a real plane.

“The guy we’re training here today is working on his instrument training, and about 50 percent of his time can be spent in the simulator meeting his requirements and also completing his training,” says Cox. “So we think it’s about three times as effective as being in the airplane, when you look at how much you can get done in the same amount of time. It can usually save the person about $2,000 in getting their rating.”

Barna adds that using the simulator trims hours and hours off of the time usually spent waiting on the tarmac.

“When you’re doing all your training in an airplane, you’re spending time getting out on the ramp and taxiing and waiting to get airborne while other people are waiting to do the same thing,” he says. “You can easily spend 45 minutes before you even get up in the air. With this, the student’s doing radio procedures, learning how to interact with the autopilot and using all the same controls he’ll be using in the Cessna as soon as he steps into the simulator.”

Cox says the average student going for a private pilot license will spend about eight hours in the simulator and then move up to the real Cessna Skyhawk. Of course, before he can do that, he must first sit through a

Our Jimmy Magahern is a good sport about trying out flying with Sierra Charlie Aviation owner and chief instructor Scott Campbell.

Magahern got an exciting ride.

class — but even that part goes faster in Cox’s program.

“What we offer to people is a condensed ground course for passing the first requirement, which is a written test similar to what you have to do to get a driver’s license,” he says. “We do that in two-and-a-half days so we can get that part out of the way.”

Another advantage of starting in the simulator is it’s a lot less unnerving for the newbie if the program hits any simulated turbulence — or the air-traffic controller issues any unexpected emergency instructions.

“The FAA loves new pilots learning this way,” Cox says, with a laugh, “because there’s literally zero safety issues.” 

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CITATIONS and SALUTATIONS

Pulver Aviation flying high as worldwide charter-jet player Story by Lee Shappell Photos by Will Powers

Pulver Aviation pilots (from left) Shawn Zelek, Curtis Hall, Tim Burns and Tyler Horn, and sales team member Jessica Shepherd, are dedicated to giving customers an excellent experience.

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t’s 10 a.m. on a recent Tuesday morning, and there is anticipation in the air at Pulver Aviation.

It’s shaping up as a historic day for the growing Airpark charter-carrier and air-ambulance company.

The phone rings and Pulver President Brandon Kearns comes away beaming. It’s the owner of both of the Cessna Citation Xs in the Pulver fleet. The FAA has just approved a medical configuration to be installed.

“So we’re the first one,” Kearns says. “We’re going to have the fastest air-ambulance planes in the world. The first one. So it’s kind of a big day, not only for us but a big day for the aircraft owner, because the owner has aspirations and desires.

“The even bigger winner is going to be the

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patient that the flight speed, the range of this aircraft, is going to save somebody’s life. We’re going to be able to start providing the quickest response time from Hawaii to the mainland, Europe to the mainland, higher and faster than any air ambulance ever was able to go.”

Sitting nearby at a conference table, company owner David Pulver also breaks into a grin, and adds, “And even transcontinental, east coast to west coast.

It’s the fastest, but it’s not the most expensive, either.”

About 45 minutes later, Bob Russell walks through the door with more good news. He’s been an investor and hangar owner in the Airpark area since the 1970s. He owns an airplane that is based in Burbank, Calif., and he is ready to make a change.

Pulver Aviation president Brandon Kearns, owner David Pulver and business-development manager Valentina Salvaridis lead the rapidly growing Airpark company.

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The Pulver Aviation fleet has grown to 10 aircraft during 2016.

Valentina Salvaridis is the business-development manager at Pulver.

As he sits down and signs the paperwork to join the team, Pulver has its 10th aircraft, significant given that at the beginning of the year the company had two, and Pulver’s business at that point was little more than an expensive hobby, Pulver says.

Things are happening quickly at Pulver Aviation.

With the Citation Xs, things will be happening even faster. The aircraft is regarded in the industry as the fastest, long-range, medium-size business jet in the world. The $23 million, twin-engine jet, depending upon its configuration for charter business or air-ambulance service, has a range of roughly 3,300 miles, flight level of 47,000 feet at 675 mph.

“It’s smooth up there,” Kearns says.

“You’re passing everybody.”

Kearns says Pulver Aviation is now the largest operator of Citation Xs in the Valley.

Pulver’s Citation X pilots have 3,000 to 4,000 hours in the model, and 10,000 to 15,000 hours of total time.

“You don’t find that anyplace else,” Kearns says. “We’re fortunate to have that type of talent here.”

Now, with a staff of 25 that includes two new experienced mechanics and a new chief financial officer, new software to enhance recordkeeping of maintenance and scheduling, its first South American operation under its belt, and those Citation Xs in the fleet with the expectation of at least one more coming, Pulver Aviation has become a player at Scottsdale Airport in less than a year.

“We’ve basically reset the company,” Kearns says. “In essence, it’s a new company.”

Pulver acquires aircraft from owners who are paying for a hangar, paying for insurance

and scheduled maintenance, whether the craft is flying or not. Pulver Aviation provides management of it all in exchange for use of the craft.

“Owners want to do something with that multi-milliondollar asset when they’re not using it,” Pulver said. “We have operational control of the airplane at all times. It’s in our fleet. It’s available to us as inventory to use.

“The aircraft owner is trusting us with this asset.

Everything has to be managed well, from maintenance to dispatch. We have to make sure that we’re looking out for their best interest.”

Pulver and Kearns seem to be joined at the hip, often finishing each other’s sentences.

“We’re better together,” Pulver said.

Like many entrepreneurs, Pulver, 45, has taken his hits on the flight path to success.

He came to the desert from New Jersey and earned an engineering degree at the University of Arizona. A self-proclaimed geek, his background is software and information technology, yet he is captivated by the allure of flight.

“Since I was a little kid I wanted to get a pilot’s license,” Pulver says.

He’s also a self-proclaimed workaholic.

He says it’s rare that he does something for himself.

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“In the dot-com boom, I had a successful e-commerce integration company,” Pulver says. “We were offered tons and tons of money for it, but my stupid ex-business partner didn’t want to sell because he was listening to how the dot-com bubble would continue to expand. I had no idea why somebody wanted to offer us tens of millions of dollars for this company, but let’s take it.

And if all these analysts are right, our non-

Pulver prides itself on employing experienced pilots, including chief pilot David O'Keefe (left) and Citation X captain Jim Nokleby.

Tyler Horn is a Learjet captain for Pulver.

compete will be over in two or three years, we can do it again.

“Long story short, I rode the crashing wave down. We had taken a company that I grew organically with no investment money with over 60 people down to where I could count the number on my hand, owing the bank money, trying to figure how to survive.

I had that Porsche in the driveway like every other dot-com guy, an expensive house. I went from being a paper multi millionaire to qualifying for food stamps overnight.

“So I decided to finally do something for myself. I had put it off for so long, but I

decided to go after the most expensive hobby out there and get my pilot’s license.”

Kearns says he was bitten by the bug early, too.

“My parents took me on flight go meet my grandmother in West Virginia,” Kearns said.

“We flew TWA from Wichita, and I knew right then and there when I saw the flight crew that I wanted to be a pilot.”

At 15 he started taking flight lessons. At 16, he soloed. At 17, he got his license. Two months after graduating from high school, he was a flight instructor at 18.

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ing a charter fleet in Columbus, Ohio, to 34 aircraft from 16 when he was offered a job in the Valley to head an air-ambulance firm.

The two met when Pulver was involved with a biomedical company that decontaminated the airambulance aircraft.

“We said, ‘Let’s see how much trouble we can get into together, and we’ve had success after success,” Kearns said. “It’s our ability to work well off of each other. We synergize very well.

“We’re good with the owners. We know what they want. We know what the flight crews want. We don’t just deliver a good product to the owners, I think we deliver it to employees, as well. Dave and I have really focused on our infrastructure. Our goal is to create an aviation company of highly skilled aviation professionals that come to work every day, have a lot of fun doing it, work hard, and deliver the best product out there.”

Pulver chimes in, “That’s also how we recruit and retain employees. And we’re always reviewing the metrics to see how we could do it better for the customer.”

“We’ve had a good amount of success acquiring airplanes, but we’ve turned it into a real operation that includes global, worldwide service. That’s a big transition to take in just a year, increasing in size, complexities and territories.”

Things are, indeed, happening quickly at Pulver Aviation. 

Brandon Kearns, inside a Cessna Citation X, is president of Pulver Aviation.

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Aerialist and Scottsdale native Michelle Milan flies in the Airpark without an aircraft.

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Airpark-area aerialist Michelle Milan to perform with Cirque du Soleil Story by Mike Butler

Photos by Cheryl Haselhorst

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he flies through the air with the greatest of ease. And although aerialist Michelle Milan knows her way around a trapeze, you’re more likely to catch her performing one of her elegant routines suspended by silks or a steel hoop known as a lyra.

A Scottsdale native, Milan, 25, is often hired to perform at Airparkarea corporate events, charity fundraisers and weddings.

Fans of Milan will have to wait a few months to see her perform again, though, unless they take an airplane.

Milan accepted a contract with Cirque du Soleil and on Nov. 21 left for a six-month performing and teaching position at Club Med Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.

“I am beyond thrilled to begin this adventure!” Milan says. “I want to thank all my family -- aerial and trapeze -- and friends for always supporting and encouraging me.”

Milan gets performance gigs through Vertical Fix and Showstoppers Interactive Entertainment.

Most of her performances take place at private gatherings. She has been doing free monthly iFly Trapeze shows on the grounds of the Phoenician.

Sometimes, clients want her to provide “ambient” entertainment, or they will ask her to do aerial bartending. Other times, clients ask for a polished performance, in which case she’ll carefully choreograph the sequence.

Choreography comes naturally to Milan, who began ballet at 9.

She progressed through the Nina Marlow School of Ballet and the Master Ballet Academy, headed by renowned Polish dancer Slawomir Wozniak, who is also the artistic director of the Phoenix Ballet.

Milan also performed classical ballet and contemporary dance at Terpsicore Dance Company in Phoenix. She probably couldn’t pinpoint exactly how many times she has performed in “The Nutcracker,” “Paquita” or “Coppelia.”

While at the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet in New Mexico a couple of years ago, Milan started having problems with her feet.

“They were breaking down,” she says. “I needed surgery.”

Her dance career over, and a little depressed, Milan took an aerial-silks class at a studio called Wise Fool in Santa Fe, and the footlights came back on.

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Things are looking up for ballet trained Michelle Milan since she landed a gig with Cirque du Soleil in the Dominican Republic.

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to a higher level of fitness Milan encourages anyone curious about aerial fitness to drop in on an aerial-yoga class near you.

Aerial-yoga sessions put you in a very safe silk hammock, and the experience deepens your regular mat-based practice, she says. You flow gently and gracefully through various postures, inversions and core- and upper-body strengthening exercises.

You’ll feel like you got run over by a BMW SUV the next day.

But don’t be surprised if you also find yourself wanting to try lyra, silks, trapeze and rope. (Don’t be surprised, either, if you see a couple of outsidethe-fitness-box guys in these classes.)

The American Council on Exercise conducted a recent study with Western State Colorado University researchers on women volunteers, 18-45, who went through three, 50-minute sessions of aerial yoga per week for six weeks.

They found that the sessions burned an average of 320 calories and provided a low- to moderateintensity cardio workout. Participants lost weight, lowered blood pressure and reduced waist circumference.

They also improved their body-fat percentages and oxygen uptake rates.

strength,” she says. “It was exhilarating.

At the end of the class, I had no feeling in my wrists. I couldn’t grip the steering wheel on the drive home.”

Soon, she was steering her car back to the Valley.

A graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State, Milan won a prestigious Pulliam Fellowship and appeared to have a bright future in journalism. Unfortunately for her, that came just as the industry was downsizing.

She got a job with online-benefits company Zenefits and continued to practice aerial in her spare time. A fateful day occurred this year. Mulling a stressful buyout offer from another rapidly downsizing industry, Milan was asked if she’d like to

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teach aerial silks and trapeze at the Pali Adventures summer camp near Big Bear, California.

She joined the circus.

Milan held teaching jobs at Vertical Fix and Prowess Pole Fitness in Tempe, and at Dance Connection in Chandler, which are catering to the aerial fitness and aerial yoga craze, before the Cirque du Soleil offer came in the Dominican Republic .

“I have no plans to go back to an office job,” she says.

One of her current students at Vertical Fix joined because of the fluid way an upside-down Milan poured her a champagne at an Airpark event about a year ago.

“You can do anything when you put your mind to it,” Milan says. “And I always tell my students that.” 

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The Band Perry

soars during private Airpark show Hangar One hosts exclusive engagement for Ram trucks, Pandora music streaming Musicians (from left) Neil Perry, Kimberly Perry and Reid Perry of The Band Perry played a private show at Hanger One. Photo by Jason Wise

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here are ways to achieve lift in the Airpark without an aircraft.

Take the swanky, 5.8-acre Hangar One, for example. From a design that mimics the leading edge of a wing, the world-class complex has helped many exclusive parties and social functions take flight.

For example, the award-winning country group The Band Perry played a private concert at Hangar One on Nov. 10 for Ram trucks and the music-streaming service Pandora.

The intimate crowd of about 200 sang along and got a look at Ram truck models positioned throughout the sprawling 13-year-old venue at 15220 N. 78th Way, adjacent to Scottsdale Airport.

Ready to release its third album, sister and brothers Kimberly, Neil and Reid Perry hit the stage to the pounding of percussion, adding new flavor to the song “Better Dig Two.” During their hour-long show, the charismatic siblings excited the crowd with a medley of “Sweet Dreams” by Eurythmics, Justin Timberlake’s “Sexy

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Fans are enthusiastic at The Band Perry’s private show at the Airpark’s Hangar One. Photos by Jason Wise

Back” and “Crazy” by Gnarls Barkley. The threesome took turns fronting the songs.

The set list was a retrospective of the group’s career. It has released two studio albums, 2010’s self-titled debut, and 2013’s “Pioneer.” “The Band Perry” went platinum and included the six-time platinum chart-topper, “If I Die Young,” a song that Kimberly did with perfection at the Airpark.

The Grammy award-winners and their band were donned in all black, with Kimberly wearing thigh-high boots, a short skirt and matching top. With her flaxen hair

returned to brown, it was tied tight into a bun on top of her head.

The Band Perry soon will return to the Airpark area. Tickets are on sale now for its set opening for Toby Keith at the Coors Light Birds Nest at the Waste Management Phoenix Open. The show is 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 2.

Kicking off the Birds Nest festivities will be Chase Rice and Jake Owen at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 1.

For more information: 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.  December 2016 Scottsdale Airpark News | 37

A cocktail in a

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Airpark man follows a vision to create Coco21 Story by Shelley Gillespie Photos by Will Powers

Coco21 is described as “a cocktail in a bottle.”

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n a chance encounter in California with a Brazilian man, Brian Kaplan was inspired when he heard how mixed drinks with coconut water were popular in that country.

That “aha moment” four years ago moved Kaplan to create Coco21, a beverage

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that he describes as “a cocktail in a bottle.”

As an Arizona resident since he was 2, Kaplan brought his inspiration home to the Airpark area, where he lives and works.

Launched this year, Coco21 -- the “21” is to indicate that his 10 % alcoholic drink is meant for the 21-and-older market -- have kept Kaplan busy designing and perfecting his signature drinks made with vodka and coconut water. The other ingredients are all natural and gluten free.

Four flavors -- original, pineapple, guava and cocorita -- are available. “Cocorita,” created to appeal to margarita lovers, uses vodka instead of tequila.

Pineapple currently is the best seller, he says. He’s experimenting with another flavor, secret for now.

“It’s great watching people taste Coco21 for the first time,” Kaplan says.

He mixed various formulas for the drinks, and used friends to test them.

“My wife, Jill, decided to stay married to me,” Kaplan says of taking over the family kitchen as his laboratory.

Every element of the Coco21 creative process was researched and tested. The flavors were chosen because of their

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popularity in non-alcoholic drinks. The ingredients are all low calorie, created with a small amount of sugar. The vodka, made from potatoes in the U.S., is distilled five times to create a premium taste. The coconut water comes from the Philippines.

The pineapple and guava juices are fresh.

“There is nothing else like it,” Kaplan says. “Historically, in premixed cocktails they’ve been high calorie, include artificial ingredients and haven’t tasted as delicious as this.”

Now that his products are ready for market, Kaplan has been calling on businesses that are enthusiastically ordering Coco21.

It now is available poolside at the Scottsdale W Hotel, at Stone and Vine Restaurant near the Airpark, and at retail outlets that include Total Wine, Fry’s Supermarkets, Bashas’, Safeway and Albertsons.

Daily, he is in his car, -- his “office,” he jokes -- as he calls on businesses. With previous experience developing health products, Kaplan is confidant that Coco21 “fills a need that hasn’t existed before.”

He notes that consumers are looking for healthful products that do not use artificial

ingredients and are not syrupy and super sweet.

The special formulas are mixed and bottled in a facility in Missouri, among the few found in the U.S. He tastes each new batch to ensure quality.

“Where some over promise and under deliver, here we under promise and over deliver,” he says.

Kaplan says that Coco21 is catching on and he has a delivery process that allows him to supply his customers quickly. He plans to expand sales to California and Hawaii.

He envisions additions to the line and refinements to the presentation. Soon, each bottle’s seal will be a different color for each flavor. Currently, the 750-milliliter bottles have a beige-brown bamboo-looking sleeve with a lime green seal and cap.

The bottles in retail locations are priced at $12.99.

“You can’t do anything halfway and expect big success,” he says. “If I can’t put everything I have into this, I can’t expect to be as successful as I’d like to be.

“I’m doing something I believe in.”

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The Holiday Season –

Scottsdale Style

By Alison Bailin Batz

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hat would the holiday season be without a sheet of ice on the roadway and a blanket of snow as far as the eye can see?

Are you kidding? It would be great! And it is – right here. When it’s sunny and 70 in the Airpark, it’s perfect for getting out and enjoying the multitude of gathering places for holiday parties and fun.

Here is a sampling of the best bets for your festive gatherings.

Octane Raceway

Octane Raceway isn’t your typical spot for holiday parties or holiday fun with friends.

Groups can expect an exhilarating, adrenalinefilled experience unlike any restaurant or bar.

Crank it up to 45 mph with Octane’s electric go-karts on its 1/3-mile indoor/outdoor track.

Off the track, keep the fun going with mini bowling, an arcade and pool tables. When it’s time to fuel up, stop by the newly renovated Brickyard Grill, where fresh dishes from the new menu are prepared in-house and a full-service bar is available. Plus, groups can enjoy private event space, bar packages and a brand new catering menu. Group packages are available for casual and company parties alike.

9119 Talking Stick Way. 602-302-7223. octaneraceway.com.

Polar Play

There is a real winter wonderland in town, thanks to the newly opened Polar Play ice playground and bar, in the OdySea in the Desert. You’ll feel like you’re at the

North Pole, complete with ice decor, ice games and even a visit from Santa and his elves! Frosty fun for the whole family, groups of friends or corporate event, Polar Play is a cool all-ice attraction and brings the ultimate arctic adventure to the desert.

Share the polar experience and celebrate your company party or private function.

9500 E Via De Ventura. 877-558-3541.

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Scotch Library Experience

Need a boys’ night out? Maybe a unique holiday date idea? The Westin Kierland Resort & Spa’s Scotch Library may be your solution. It features more than 250 whiskies imported from all six whisky regions of Scotland (Speyside, Highland, Islay, Islands, Lowland and Campbeltown), representing nearly half of the distilleries in Scotland. Vintages in the Scotch Library range from 10-year-old varietals to scotch that is more than 40 years old. Assisting guests with selections are Scotch Library Ambassadors, who are experts in the area of single malt and blend whiskies. Not only are the Ambassadors passionate scotch consumers themselves, but they have received extensive training to prepare for their role. Looking for a more advanced tasting experience?

As a part of its ongoing Scotch programs, the resort will host a new series of Master Tastings, featuring experts representing leading Scotch producers. The Dec. 8

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Master Tasting at 6:30 p.m. will include light-food pairings and will be led by Dr. Tom Turner, an ambassador for Young’s Market Company.

6902 E. Greenway Parkway. 800-3545892 or 480-624-1000. kierlandresort.com/ fine-dining-at-scottsdale-restaurants/ scotch-library/.

Festive Flicks

The inaugural Festive Flicks this December at Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North includes holiday movies, and festive food and beverage under a blanket of Sonoran stars. The movie and game nights join the growing family-friendly holiday programming at the property. Fountain Terrace will be transformed into a festive movie theater and holiday carnival with a game lawn, featuring bocce ball, ladder ball and other sporting games.

Sparkling lights will adorn the lawn, and guests will enjoy strolling through an array of food and beverage stations. Options include “make your own” funnel cakes, salted and cinnamon-sugar dusted pretzel knots, giant s’more cupcakes, freshly popped popcorn, classic-movie candies and other delicious treats and drinks. It runs 6-9 p.m. Dec. 2, 9 and 16. The holiday movie showings include: “Polar Express” on Dec 2:, “Home Alone” on Dec 9, and “Elf” on Dec 16. The movie and lawn games are complimentary. Snacks and beverages are available at additional cost.

Reservations are not required.

10600 E. Crescent Moon Drive. 480-5155700. fourseasons.com/Scottsdale.

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The pasta is made in house to create dishes like Strozzapreti with Bloomsdale spinach or supple ribbons of tagliatelle for the Bolognese. Pizzas are wood fired. With the spirit of the Italian taverna, North is a place to gather with friends, colleagues and loved ones. Largegroup events are always welcome. Guests have the option of reserving the spaces or doing a full buy-out for a more private experience.

Options include the inside dining room (for seated events as large as 82 guests, and 125 for reception events) and the patio (for seated events as large as 42 guests, and 60 for reception events). Adjoined is Bar North, a dining room and lounge patio that also offers indoor/outdoor party space.

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annual Christmas at the Princess festival through Jan. 1, glistening with a four-story musical tree, Desert Ice Rink, Princess Express Trains, Lagoon Lights, plus new holiday characters, shows and attractions, including Santa’s Secret Headquarters.

One exceptionally fun new element is The Ice Den Scottsdale Presents “Magical Moments on Ice.” On Dec. 5, 6, 12 and 13, guests can enjoy watching skaters of all ages from the Ice Den, as they showcase their talents to holiday music. The shows feature members of the Coyotes Skating Club of Arizona, who compete from regional to international levels.

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he idea was born during a New Year’s Eve party, where several passionate Arabian owners were celebrating.

Noting Arizona’s typically wonderful winter climate, the group agreed that it would be a great time to explore all the local farms.

A decade later, the 10th annual ArabHorse Farm Tour returns to the Airpark area Dec. 29 through Jan. 1, giving the public a rare opportunity to experience majestic Arabian horses up close.

As part of the tour, guests get an inside peek behind the gates of some of the area’s most prestigious horse farms. Barn owners open the doors to showcase their horses with tours, performances and intimate gatherings that often include refreshments or wine tasting.

“The more they thought about it, the more they realized it should be an organized event the community could also enjoy,” says Phyllis LaMalfa, the event organizer.

Adds Scott Bailey, on the ArabHorse Farm Tour website: “Scottsdale is recog-

nized as the world capital of the Arabian horse, and traditionally some farms in Scottsdale have hosted New Year’s parties or open bars.”

Bailey is regarded as the source of the ArabHorse Farm Tour.

For years, he has been inspired to share the breed up close and personal.

“The tour has gained in popularity since its inception in 2007.

There is no admission charge to attend any of the tour events but we encourage people to participate in our raffles and auctions that will be occurring each event to raise funds for Healing Hearts Animal Rescue and Refuge,” says Bailey.

The 10th anniversary tour includes 10 farms, each showcasing the horses in a unique way. Guests may choose as many as three farms each day. They may, in some cases, even feed the horses.

As it has for the last five years, the ArabHorse Farm Tour wil support the local Healing Hearts Animal Rescue and Refuge with a benefit auction. Established in 2005, Healing Hearts is dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of animals. Last year the auction raised more than $20,000 to help distressed, abandoned or abused horses.

“We all love animals and felt it was a great fit knowing they rescue a lot of Arabians,” LaMalfa says. “Jennifer Brumbraugh is the executive director and her team of passionate animal lovers do an amazing job rescuing many animals.”  10th Annual ArabHorse Farm Tour Thursday, Dec. 29, through Sunday, Jan. 1 Free and open to the public Visit arabhorsefarmtour.com for schedule and locations

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Another year of growth, success in the Airpark Year ahead full of promise for more

By Joan Fudala

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o get you geared up for a season of house guests, business events and experiences to share with family and friends, here are just a few of the evolutions that have taken place in the past 12 months in the Airpark area and across the city.

Scottsdale’s population is now estimated at 213,200 and there are approximately 20,800 licensed businesses.

What the year brought us

Restaurants: Ahipoki Bowl on South Scottsdale Road; Pho King Kitchen on Thomas Road.

In downtown Scottsdale: Postino, Sel Restaurant, Bourbon & Bones, Crab & Mermaid Fish Shop, Farm & Craft, Boss Pizza Bar, Creamistry, Hand Cut, Smokehaus, Fourtillfour, Scapegoat Wine & Beer Bar and Great Australian Bakery.

Char Kitchen + Bar at Hilton Village; Rita’s Italian Ice at The Pavilions; Fired Pie in McCormick Ranch.

Drexyl Modern American Restaurant, Alma and Inde Fusion in Gainey Ranch.

Hot Noodles Cold Sake on Rancho Vista.

Sonata’s, Grand Blue and The Baked Bear at Scottsdale/Shea.

Jerusalem Bakery at FLW/Shea; MADgreens at FLW/Thompson Peak; a 2nd Hash Kitchen on Frank Lloyd Wright; RA Sushi at Scottsdale Town Square; Zen Asian Kitchen at Sonora Village;

A new operations building opened at Scottsdale Airport in 2016. Joan Fudala photo

Postino and Shake Shack at Kierland Commons; Butters on Northsight; BLK Live on Butherus in the Airpark; Kona Grill at the Scottsdale Quarter; The Chicken Scoop at The Promenade; 1000 Degrees Pizza and Ohya Korean Grill & Bar at Scottsdale 101; Decantur The Winery and All American Modern Sports Grill at DC Ranch Market Street; Dutch Brothers Coffee at Grayhawk; Eddie Merlot’s, Egg N’ Joe and Grape Wine Bistro at Silverstone Marketplace; Bodega 13 at La Mirada Center Tourism & events: Odysea aquarium and Dolphinaris on Via de Ventura/Salt

River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community; five downtown wineries launched the Scottsdale Wine Trail.

Retail and Services: Biltmore Loan on Scottsdale Road; Off Fifth at The Promenade; Harvest Inc. and AZ Natural Selection medical marijuana dispensaries in the Airpark area; Sundance, J. McLaughlin clothing and Allen Edmonds shoes at Kierland Commons; Jordan Brown, Cariloha, Cheeky Chic Baby Boutique and Kinsley at Scottsdale Quarter; Fitwall on Pima Road; …continues on page 46

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Carlisle Companies moved its headquarters from North Carolina to Kierland.

Optima Kierland luxury residential rose from a redeveloped site on the west side of Scottsdale road. Joan Fudala photo

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MedPost Urgent Care, Cuddles by Goochie Goo Garbs on Pinnacle Peak Road; Bealls Outlet in Fountain Hills.

City: New Operations building at Scottsdale Airport; pickleball courts at Thompson Peak Park; 415 acres added to McDowell Sonoran Preserve purchased from two state-land auctions.

Education: Business United for Scottsdale Schools organization debuted; voters approved a bond issue and override for Scottsdale Unified School District.

Residential/Commercial Developments: Aerium townhouses in downtown Scottsdale; Optima Kierland; Bahia 101

in the Bell Road Corridor; The Standard apartments adjacent to the Hotel Valley Ho; Inspire on Earll downtown; Aerium on 6th Street downtown.

Businesses: Clearlink opened at the Galleria Corporate Centre; Mayo opened a cancer center on its hospital campus, including proton-beam treatment; Mayo also opened a Primary Care clinic on Mayo Blvd.

Sneaky Big Productions, Recess Endurance Training, Desert Storage and Craig’s Billiards opened in the Airpark.

Carlisle Companies moved its headquarters to Kierland One from North Carolina; Storage West opened on Bell Road; Groupon

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opened an operation office in SkySong; Trusona cybersecurity firm opened in Scottsdale; American Flyers Flight School opened at Scottsdale Airport.

Other: Killarney, Ireland, is a new “twin city” among Scottsdale’s seven other sister cities; Scottsdale’s involvement in For Our City statewide coalition identifying/ meeting social services needs.

Faces in new places: Dennis Robbins was named Executive Director of the Scottsdale Charros; Karen Churchard was named Scottsdale’s tourism and events director; football great Tim Tebow played for the Scottsdale Scorpions Arizona Fall League baseball team; by January, Scottsdale may have a new City Manager (interviews with finalists took place in November).

November Election results: Paul Penzone will replace Joe Arpaio as Maricopa County Sheriff; there will be a new/ higher minimum wage in Arizona.

What’s different

Restaurants: Fate is now McFate Brewing Co.; Dos Gringos is now Old Town Gringos; Paradise Bakeries in downtown Scottsdale and the Shops at Gainey Ranch became

[Remember when ] its Visitors Center to the former Harkins Box Office near the food court at Scottsdale Fashion Square; ANDAZ is the redeveloped former Cottonwoods Resort and its restaurant has been named Weft & Warp Art Bar + Kitchen; Hotel Indigo is now Aloft Scottsdale; Chaparral Suites is now Embassy Suites by Hilton Scottsdale Resort and its restaurant is the Granada Bar & Grill.

The Russo & Steele auto auction is moving to Salt River Fields at Talking Stick; more than 100 rooms were added to the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess resort last summer; Spa House was added to The Sanctuary on Camelback Mountain Resort; Paradise Bakery locations on Indian School and Shops at AAA’s Scottsdale office has moved Gainey Ranch rebranded as Panera Bread. Joan Fudala photo to Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd. at Thompson Peak Pkwy.

Panera Bread locations; First Watch took over Retail & services: Old Navy The Egg & I at Hayden Peak Crossing; former moved locations within The Promenade Alchemy at Copperwynd Resort is now center; Harkins’ Camelview closed its iconic Flourish; after a devastating fire, the Buffalo location on Goldwater and moved to a bigger, Chip Saloon in Cave Creek is rising from the brand-new location inside a new wing of ashes to reopen; the former Lenero Mexican Scottsdale Fashion Square; RoadHouse Grill in Scottsdale Ranch is now the Tronco cinemas is the new name of the 11-screen Sonoran Grill; BLT Steak at the Camelback Inn theater at The Pavilions; Guidon Books is now Lincoln 1936 restaurant & bar. moved from Old Town to the Scottsdale Tourism: The Scottsdale CVB is now Airpark; Earnhardt will move from its former known as Experience Scottsdale, has a new McDowell/Scottsdale roads location and brand, logo and ad campaign, and has moved rebrand as Earnhardt Lexus at 8th Street/ Off 5th opened at The Promenade on the southeast corner of Scottsdale Road and Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard.

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…continued from page 47 Camelback; Orvis moved from Kierland to the Shops at Town & Country/Phoenix.

Arts & Culture: The Scottsdale Cultural Council has a new name, Scottsdale Arts; Desert Stages Theatre is moving into the former space of the Harkins Theatres inside Scottsdale Fashion Square near the food court.

Business/developments: JDA Software Group moved into the Scottsdale Quarter; Ross Aviation acquired the former Landmark Aviation fixed-base operator at Scottsdale Airport.

City: New LED scoreboard installed at Scottsdale Stadium; 75 new parking spaces at the McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park (site of former water facility).

Other: McDowell Sonoran Conservancy has moved from The Promenade to Greenway in the Airpark; Liberty Wildlife moved from the Cactus Road corridor to a new facility in the Rio Salado area; lanes have

been added to Loop 101 from Loop 202 to Shea Blvd.

What’s gone/closed

Restaurants: Pink Pony, The Upton, Union Barrel House, Stingray Sushi at Scottsdale Quarter, Hogs n Hops BBQ in Gainey Ranch, Bobby’s Restaurant and Lounge at Kierland Commons, Bink’s at Hilton Village, The Grind/Arcadia, ShinBay at the Seville.

Events: The Schwab Cup golf tournament will move from Desert Mountain to Phoenix Country Club in 2017.

Retail: Valerie’s furnishings, the Room Store, Barney’s at Scottsdale Fashion Square, Sports Chalet, Hacienda Home Interiors in the Airpark.

Business: Theranos closed its labs in Scottsdale; SRP has shut down the 1914-

vintage Crosscut hydropower plant.

Structures razed: Pinnacle Peak Patio, Red Lobster downtown Scottsdale, the former Carefree Studios burned down.

Moved to other places: Fritz Behring is no longer Scottsdale’s City Manager; Dr. David Peterson retired as Scottsdale Unified School District Superintendent; former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin sold her Scottsdale mansion.

Sadly, we’ve lost: former State Sen. Carolyn Allen, former Gov. Rose Mofford,

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Tourism: College basketball’s Final Four will be in Glendale April 1 and 3, Hotel at Mountain Shadows set to open this winter, new state law in effect Jan. 1 eases rules on short-term/vacation rentals, a golf resort to Troon North, WaterView hotel and residential complex to the Scottsdale Waterfront, hotel to SkySong.

Retail and restaurants: Loco Patron restaurant to open in the Airpark, Palmeraie office and retail complex adjacent to the planned Ritz-Carlton Paradise Valley, Scottsdale AutoShow retail automotive development coming to Salt River PimaMaricopa Indian Community, OdySea in the Desert retail/ restaurant complex.

City: an update to the General Plan (in the works for several years), plans to create a Desert Discovery Center to complement the McDowell Sonoran Preserve will be presented in Fall 2017, plans to renovate Scottsdale Civic Center Mall, 2015 Scottsdale voter-approved and bond-funded upgrades to 140 miles of city streets and four fire stations, roundabout with public art at Hayden and Raintree in the Airpark, update of city’s transportation master-plan, Mustang Transit Path Connection at 90th Street, Scottsdale Airport Terminal to be razed and redeveloped to create two large executive-type hangar facilities and a new aviation business center, memorial commemorating World War II aviation cadets trained at Thunderbird II Airfield

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[Remember when ] …continued from page 49 Mayor Lane and Councilmembers Klapp, Korte and Phillips were re-elected to Scottsdale City Council in November 2016. Joan Fudala photo

(now Scottsdale Airport), citizen-initiated memorial to Scottsdale’s fallen members of the armed forces on the grounds of City Hall, Brown’s Ranch Trailhead amphitheater to be named in honor of the late State Sen. Carolyn Allen.

Education: Mayo Clinic/ASU Medical School to open in July on Mayo’s Scottsdale Campus (East Shea Blvd.)

Developments: Marquee at The District on the site of the Nuss Building and Main Street Place in downtown Scottsdale, mixeduse development to OneScottsdale north of Loop 101 and Scottsdale Road.

Business: The Block at Pima Center, Paseo de las Flores coming to McCormick Ranch, an expansion/new look for The Promenade at Scottsdale Road and Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd.

What didn’t happen in 2016

City Council opted not to adopt an LBGTQ non-discrimination ordinance.

S a t a n i s t s w e re t o l d n o t t o o ff e r the opening prayer at a City Council meeting.

Voters in November rejected legalizing recreational marijuana in Arizona.

Leadership unchanged as Scottsdale voters re-elected Mayor Lane and Council members Suzanne Klapp, Virginia Korte and Guy Phillips.

2017 anniversaries and milestones

100th anniversary of Arizonans and other Americans entering World War I (1917), Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West’s 80th (1937), Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce’s 70th (1947), Arabian Horse Association’s 65th (1952), Kiva Elementary School’s 60th (1957), Scottsdale Airport’s 50th (1967), Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale’s 30th (1987), Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale’s 30th (1987), Scottsdale Prevention Institute’s 30th (1987). 

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Actually, there’s no need to imagine it.

Just drive to 9393 E. Bell Rd., and there it is.

The Thumb, formerly known as Tom’s Thumb, is a place to relive those cross-country road trips where every truck stop was an oasis of greasy burgers, cheap souvenirs and expensive gas -- only this one has awardwinning barbeque, high-quality gift shop and

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gas at competitive prices.

Oh yeah, and there’s a car wash.

And a bakery. And a wine club.

(There are no apartments – yet. But if there were, it would be conceivable to live one’s entire life on a single square block.)

“There’s a bit of a truck-stop feel to The Thumb, except that you don’t usually find truck stops in the middle of neighborhoods like this,” says Michael Lawson, The Thumb’s general manager.

The dining room always draws a crowd at The Thumb.

Need auto detailing? Racing fuel? Or just a sandwich? The Thumb has it all.

“We’re really branded as ‘Just your average gas station’ ” –the phrase used on The Thumb’s website, thethumb.com – “but it’s really a lot of different things.

The food is number one, but gas and gifts are also important."

That name, by the way, comes from a nearby geographic outcropping called “Tom’s Thumb” that looms over the Tom Thumb Trailhead. “The Thumb” is not a deliberate reference to the piece of Michigan attached to the “mitten.”

Appropriate for the Airpark area, the restaurant’s reputation flies high. Phoenix Magazine readers polled it the Valley’s Best Restaurant, period. How many top restaurants also are voted Best Car Wash 2016 (AZ Foothills Magazine)? The automobile detailing service is just as good as the brisket.

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There's even a gift shop at The Thumb.

The TV show “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” praised it in an episode a couple of years back.

Maria Rodriguez, The Thumb’s social-media manager, says the uniqueness of The Thumb draws a lot of people of different backgrounds.

“A lot of them see the gas station and stop to fill up, and then they notice what’s inside,” Rodriguez says. “I get a lot of ‘I had no idea there was a restaurant and gift shop in here.’ ” Once they taste the food, they come back for that, as well as a tank of regular (racong fuel also available).

What are some of The Thumb’s unique dishes?

Rodriguez names two: “The pigs and grits. The brisket stack.”

The menu describes pigs and grits as “crispy pulled pork over creamy grits topped with local cheddar and jalapeno bacon” ($10). The brisket stack is just what you might imagine: alternating

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But don’t forget your old favorites here. If the richness of catfish is something you avoid because you’ve had too many inferior filets encrusted in tasteless batter, step up and order the blackenedcatfish sandwich with chipotle aioli ($10) and be pleasantly surprised by succulence. The tacos are good, too – so good that the Arizona taco festival named The Thumb’s beef tacos among the top three in the Valley.

Most sandwiches and tacos come with a side of chips in a bag, but do your taste buds a favor and ratchet it up with the basked Mac ‘n’ Cheese ($4.50) or the Collard Greens ($3).

If that isn’t enough, The Thumb also boasts an impressive wine cellar.

The menu is oriented to barbeque, Lawson says, because chef and owner Kipp Lassetter got a taste for smoked meats while traveling Texas. There are influences from South Carolina and Memphis, as well. The food is redolent of outdoor cooking.

Even the desserts, which include apple and peach cobblers, are cooked in cast iron. And everything goes down smooth, a sign of fresh ingredients and savvy preparation.

The Thumb serves breakfast, including everything from French toast to a chorizo-egg- andcheddar burrito.

Cross-country car travel is too often accompanied by Twinkies and day-old hot dogs. The Thumb gives the traveler food to match a cinematic vision of the Great American Road Trip. 

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Ann Brecheisen Hall, with (from left) her brothers, Tres Brecheisen, T.J. Brecheisen and their dad Ric Brecheisen, says that while growing up, her family had so many wonderful experiences at European coffee shops that they were inspired to open their own.

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Hall’s husband, Brian, helps at the business too, and her parents, Ric and Judy Brecheisen, stop by every day when they are not traveling.

Hall says Passport Coffee and Tea offers a huge selection of roasted-to-order and custom-blended coffee along with handcrafted teas.

“We carry 100 types of coffee and 100 types of tea,” she says, adding that their tropical black, pomegranate-green and red mango-fruit teas are especially popular.

The business promotes socially responsible coffees and supports small farms and co-ops that Hall says create some of the best coffee money can buy. They air roast the beans on site in Scottsdale for the best flavor.

“We know about the farms and we have developed great relationships with the farmers,” she says.

Although Passport Coffee and Tea is not a physical coffee house, it does now have a retail shop where customers can come in and buy their coffees and teas.

“People kept coming in and saying, ‘Can we buy your coffee?’ So we opened an outlet,” she says.

Hall says they also provide consulting and education support services, and equipment—anything, she says, to support their customers and give them assistance.

Looking back over three decades, Hall recalls that when they opened, there were not a lot of coffee shops in the Valley, let alone places that wanted to serve specialty coffee.

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“We had traveled to San Francisco in 1982, and the city was the starting place for the specialty-coffee industry. There, we learned about coffee houses and roasting coffee,” she says.

“When we came back home, we realized that in the Scottsdale area so many people were from everywhere else, that we decided to open our business there. But in 1983, this was definitely a pioneer type of business, and we were the first to do this.”

As for choosing the Airpark, Hall calls it a great decision.

“When we opened, there wasn’t a freeway and in the afternoons we could take our dune buggies out and ride around,” she says. “But we saw the growth coming in this direction and it has just been a great place for our family to have our business.”  Passport Coffee and Tea 7585 E. Gray Road, Scottsdale 480-948-1419 www.passport-coffee.com.

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The poinsettias were hung along Fifth Avenue with care in hopes that the visitors soon would be there.

From Thanksgiving through New Year’s Day, our local tourism industry traditionally settles down for a long winter’s nap.

Scottsdale hotels and resorts see dips in occupancy, because our business travelers spend the holidays at home and our leisure travelers spend the holidays on the beach.

But Scottsdale isn’t quite so sleepy anymore thanks to the collaborative efforts of Experience Scottsdale, our hotel and resort partners and the city.

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Chicago, yNew York, Denver and Canada through direct mail, email and on our website, www.HolidaysinScottsdale.com.

Experience Scottsdale’s website also promotes holiday packages and events, and we bolster our messaging as Scottsdale hotels, resorts and attractions add more and more seasonal offerings.

The Fairmont Scottsdale Princess, for example, turns our desert destination into a Christmas destination with its annual “Christmas at the Princess.” Now in its seventh year, this holiday extravaganza includes an ice-skating rink and Christmas-tree forest. “Christmas at the Princess” gets bigger each year – in both its offerings and attendance.

The Fairmont Scottsdale Princess is not alone in spreading this cheer. Our visitors have visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads after decorating “Cookies with Claus” at the Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North and touring the holiday lights at McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park.

Even the city joins the merriment this year with its inaugural, month-long celebration, “Scottsdazzle.” This entire month, the downtown districts are decked out with poinsettias, twinkly lights and holiday-art installations. “Scottsdazzle” features special events like holiday concerts on Soleri Bridge & Plaza, the “Santa Wine Around,” and the “I Spy Santa ArtWalk.”

Our tourism community hopes to continue this trend and draw more visitors to Scottsdale in November and December.

So should you come across visitors as you and your family enjoy your own holiday traditions, I hope you’ll exclaim ere they drive out of sight, “Happy holidays to all, and to all a good night!”  Rachel Sacco is president and CEO of Experience Scottsdale, which is responsible for marketing the Scottsdale area as a premier travel and meetings destination to national and international leisure visitors, travel agents, tour operators and meeting planners.

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Karen Foley and Roxanne Baldwin are enjoying the activities at WestWorld.

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Stepping to the fore in Scottsdale A history of leadership in the city

By Rachel Brockway

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Tom Sadvary is the Scottsdale Leadership Drinkwater Community Leadership Award winner.

hat does the name Drinkwater mean to you? Did you automatically think that it’s the name of the street you take to watch the San Francisco Giants play a spring-training game? Or the bypass street that you take to get to Scottsdale Fashion Square? Or maybe you remembered that you noticed the name on a statue in Civic Center Park of a man with his dog?

It is that, but so much more.

It is important to the future of Scottsdale to understand the past.

Drinkwater Blvd. and that cool statue of the man and his dog at Civic Center Park are both actually named for Mayor Herb Drinkwater, who was known as “Mr. Scottsdale,” and who many believe may have been one of the most important individuals who shaped Scottsdale into the city it is today.

Drinkwater’s legacy lives on in other ways, as well.

The Scottsdale Leadership Drinkwater Community Leadership Award honors a community leader

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who demonstrates a consistent commitment to community service and involvement, is recognized by others as a true leader, exemplifies humanitarian values and shows a commitment to diversity.

This year’s recipient, Tom Sadvary, is the CEO at Honor Health.

Nussbaum Gillis & Dinner, P.C. is proud to be this year’s sponsor of the Scottsdale Leadership Drinkwater Leadership Award.

“Sponsoring the Drinkwater Community Leadership Award allows our firm to thank Scottsdale, Scottsdale Leadership and city legends like Herb Drinkwater for shaping one the best cities in America,” said Randy Nussbaum, partner at the firm and a Scottsdale Leadership alum.

“In addition, the award provides us with the opportunity to demonstrate our allegiance and ongoing commitment to Scottsdale.”

Both Nussbaum and Sadvary agree that Drinkwater had the vision and passion to move Scottsdale forward in a way that was inviting to everyone, whether they agreed with his politics or not.

“Herb’s footprint can be seen throughout the city. The residents of Scottsdale should know the history and impact he made to the organization

legalperspectives and community,” said Sadvary. “When individuals understand the history of where they live it inspires them to get involved and make where they live better.”

One for the history books

Drinkwater served four terms as Scottsdale’s mayor, from 1980 to 1996, and during that time not only did the population of Scottsdale double but it also became known as the city that provided amenities for people that wanted to enjoy a quality of life. He had a vision to develop the northern part of the city by bringing the Princess Resort and the Tournament Players Club to the area.

“The Greatest Show on Grass,” the Waste Management Phoenix Open, presented by the Ak-Chin Indian Community each February, has solidified the city’s presence as an international destination.

Drinkwater was also an environmentalist and had a real passion for preserving the open spaces in Scottsdale. His foresight led to the some of the most well-known beautiful spaces, such as the McDowell Sonoran Preserve and the final implementation of the Indian Bend Wash. Drinkwater was instrumental in the decision to build a

new Scottsdale Stadium, home of the San Francisco Giants for Cactus League games during spring training.

Community leaders honor that history

Both Nussbaum and Sadvary have incorporated Drinkwater’s core values into not only their personal lives but also their business values. Nussbaum strongly believes in the courage and commitment of our earlier leaders, like Drinkwater, who were willing to personally sacrifice for the good of the whole.

“Leadership is the ability to inspire others to achieve the highest level of performance,” said Nussbaum. “Drinkwater believed in the importance and strength of collaboration and we see that played out across businesses, like our firm, throughout the community.”

Sadvary believes there are four main components in leadership: understanding and defining reality, translating that reality into impact, deciding what direction that impact will take, and communicating and inspiring others to believe and execute the chosen direction.

“I believe that Herb embodied all four of these components, which is why his approval

rating when he was mayor was more than 90 percent,” said Sadvary. “It is a great honor to receive this award, and when I look at the list of previous winners, I am humbled to be in such great company.”

Sadvary will be honored with the Drinkwater Community Leadership Award, sponsored by Nussbaum, Gillis & Dinner, P.C. at the Scottsdale Leadership 17th Annual Spirit of Community Leadership Awards Luncheon on Dec. 2 at The Phoenician, 6000 E. Camelback Rd. in Scottsdale.

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By Stephen A. Cross, CCIM

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hile most every commercial lease or purchase agreement contains a section detailing where notices must be sent, it is common to find further instructions imbedded within the document specifying when and how notices must be delivered in order to be considered valid.

Let’s take a closer look at some examples.

Leases

The ‘Notice’ section of a commercial lease is where the names and addresses of the landlord, tenant and guarantor(s) are located. A lease may also contain language identifying who may act on behalf of the tenant and/or guarantor.

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Tenants often overlook when notices concerning renewal or purchase options must be delivered to the landlord. Generally, landlords establish a window (a period of time) in which the tenant may provide written notice that they are exercising any options, typically six to nine months prior to the lease termination date. Miss the window and face losing the option.

Of note is that landlords may agree to renewal options but refuse to set the rental rate, stipulating that it cannot be less than the last amount paid. They may also be silent on resetting the base year or expense stop, which could result in additional revenue for the landlord. Make certain that

these matters are addressed and negotiated before signing.

Some leases require the tenant to give prior written notice of their intent to vacate the premises, and failure to do so in a proper and timely manner automatically extends the lease for a period of time at a rate specified by the landlord.

Purchases

There are several areas where notices are required, including during the feasibility review period, removing contingencies, such as financing, and termination.

If, during the building inspection the buyer discovers things needing repair or

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Termination is generally accomplished by giving proper notice. However, some agreements are automatically terminated in the event the buyer does not affirm, in writing, that they wish to continue.

Notices, demands or other communications in almost all purchase agreements must be in writing. Some allow delivery via e-mail or facsimile, while others require personal delivery or specify certified mail, return receipt requested. Pay particular attention to the number of days required for a notice to be a valid delivery.

My suggestion is that every tenant or buyer of real property generate a schedule to remind them of critical dates, whom to contact and where to properly deliver notices.  Stephen A. Cross, CCIM, owns CROSS Commercial Realty Advisors and advocates exclusively for tenants and buyers. Contact him at 480-998-7998 or steve@crossrealty.com.

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hink about all the things you’ve ever owned that made you money: Real estate, stocks, bonds, cash-value life insurance, annuities, mutual funds, 401(k) plans, IRAs, CDs, savings accounts, commodities, options, collectibles, gold, REITs, even managed futures.

Why did you buy them?

Undoubtedly to make money—perhaps subject to a lot of risk—but to profit, not to lose. What were the characteristics of these investments that attracted you to them, their benefits, perks advantages? We’ve been polling our seminar attendees with

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these questions for years and here are their typical answers: High-yield potential: Everybody wants growth, although the older we get, the more conservative we tend to become. Risk-based investments are great when they succeed as hoped for, yet they’re the cause of many a sleepless night when they don’t. Still, everyone, regardless of age, should have some money in the stock market, assuming their investment horizon is long enough, or the funds aren’t critical to their retirement.

Safety/stability/guarantees: These guarantee against loss and guarantee

financialfundamentals lifetime income. Checks don’t stop even after your account has been depleted.

Tax advantages: In a perfect world, our ideal investment comes with tax advantages. There’s tax-free, tax-exempt, tax-deferred, etc. What if you use IRS money alongside your money, as if it was your money, making you money within such an account? Better yet, what if you could go far beyond age 70½, when most IRA accounts must begin their taxable payouts?

Reallocation: The three certainties of life are death, taxes and change. Things don’t always stay the same, and change is constant. Smart investors know that there are opportunities as well as risks amid change, and that adjusting one’s allocation to various asset classes (small-cap growth vs. large-cap value) is critical.

Modest liquidity: We have two needs in retirement: Income for the current year, and growth without loss for future years.

Legendary investor Benjamin Graham described a good investment as one which “upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and a satisfactory return” from which income was sufficient to last the rest

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Diversification: Putting all your eggs in one basket is never wise. Having linkage to multiple asset classes is the only way to have some parts growing even when others may be temporarily out of favor.

Probate avoidance: Anyone who has ever had to probate the estate of a parent knows that the process can be grueling, expensive, and public—and is to be avoided whenever possible. IRAs, annuities and life-insurance proceeds avoid probate and go directly to the named beneficiaries on the account. Anything else must be placed inside a trust in order to have the same protections, privacy, low expense and brevity of process.

Simplicity: “As we age, do we prefer complexity or simplicity?” I have been asking this question of our seminar audiences for years, and while it always gets a knowing chuckle, there’s a serious issue we can’t laugh off. Most marriages have a portfolio manager, the person who tracks the couple’s investments, rebalances the portfolio, buys and sells options and organizes the consequences. The other spouse

is either disinterested, incapable or happy to let their partner handle it.

Question: What happens when that portfolio-manager spouse has a medical event—like a stroke—and can’t remember their own name a week later? What does the less-involved spouse inherit?”

Answer: A mess. Two months of family caregiver training later, she opens their next quarterly investment statement, turns to page 19 of 31, sees a large loss, and has no idea what to do. Wouldn’t this spouse much prefer to have had her husband’s assistance in picking an advisor for just such times? And this is our final encouragement to all: In addition to all of the characteristics listed above, consider simplifying your holdings together, before one of you is left to do it alone.  Thomas K. Brueckner, CLTC, is President/ CEO of Strategic Asset Conservation in Scottsdale, a conservative wealth-management firm. He is an Advisor of the Year national finalist, radio talk-show host and Arizona Premier Financial Advisor. Reach him at www.go2knight.com.

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ust as attracting and retaining talent is a concern for an organization, attracting and retaining businesses is a concern for cities and states.

Attention is paid to the recruiting process, especially when it requires a relocation. Cities and employers put their best faces forward with attractive compensation plans, tax breaks and assistance in numerous areas, such as home or site selection.

In all this, an important element of relocation often is overlooked: Family -- the trailing spouse, the children, and even aging parents.

Family happiness is a critical component of a successful move.

In my personal experience of nearly a dozen corporate relocations, two of which were international, this has been proven repeatedly.

So what to do?

First, it’s never too early to start. The sooner the significant other can be brought into the discussion and decision-making, the better the odds for a positive outcome.

When my husband and I moved to Europe, we had long talks about why we wanted to do this, what it might look like and how it would impact our family goals and longterm plans. We sought input and advice from other family members and from others who had made such moves.

Once we arrived, his days were not that much different. He went to a corporate office that had the same look, feel, culture, protocol and language as in the US. His professional identity was intact given his title and responsibilities. On the other hand, everything changed for me. I had no job, no title, no structured responsibilities, no common language, no familiar ground for grocery shopping and running errands.

While these things are exaggerated in an international move, even in a U.S. move there will be culture shock. I find corporate

relocations to be great fun. Even so, there are moments of challenge. It’s critical to remember why you are doing this, to allow yourself to be homesick for a bit and then to get on with it.

When we moved to Asia, I had the opportunity to work with many trailing spouses. Most were highly-educated, career-driven partners willing to take a hiatus so the leading spouse could have the career opportunity of an international assignment. The days often became lonely and long. Getting connected as quickly as possible is the key to a good relocation.

This starts with house-hunting.

Often, the leading spouse will defer this task to the trailing spouse. He or she will want to jump into the new job. But, if this initial settling decision can be made together, and with as much information as possible, it sets the foundation for happiness for all.

While a corporate relocation is provoked by a career opportunity, every move should be about enriching all of life. How sad it would be to spend years in a place and fail to explore all that is there. Make time for outings, museums, sports events. Be curious together.

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2016 will be a year of wonder, riding the rapids of the world, alternating crises, events, new technology and exciting scientific discoveries that will have a lasting impact on our lives.

ARIES 3/21-4/20 It may be all over but the shouting, I think. This ends a 9-year cycle and January begins a Number 1 year. A new beginning for all. Mercury goes retrograde for the last time Dec. 19 to Jan. 8. Take care of all business matters. Keep holiday plans flexible.

the 19th, presents you with challenges that will help you reaffirm what you want or need. Best to do your gift shopping within the first two weeks. Much of December is about personal relationships.

social sign of Aquarius until the 19th, favors all types of networking and social activities. Best to listen and do less talking. No complaints. This festive period is socially upbeat.

CAPRICORN 12/22-1/19 Watch what you say and how you say it. Win over a client or advance your career with discretion. Schedule any meetings or agreements before the week of the 19th. Start to put more life into your social life the week of the 21st and throughout the season.

TAURUS 4/21-5/20 A dynamic month ahead. providing you think twice about major decisions or purchases. Patterns give you time to restructure or reorganize based on past experiences. Complete duties, and then take time off to relax.

VIRGO 8/23-9/22 Circle the 1st to the 16th: Any work-based problems can be resolved early in the month. The 14th is a good time to sign on the dotted line. Then take time off to concentrate on family and home. The 25th is a positive day. If you think of others, they think of you.

GEMINI 5/21-6/21 Mercury spends a good portion of the month retrograde, giving you time to review goals or matters. Take your time before jumping into a brand-new opportunity. If under pressure to commit, do it before the week of the 19th. Keep social plans open.

Libra 9/23-10/22 You can end showcasing your talents, because Jupiter (Lady Luck) in your own sun sign gives you the confidence and opportunities. Circle mid month for forming positive relationships. Year ends with energy, after dominant domestic concerns.

CANCER 6/22-7/22 Time must be set aside for yourself. December may have you shuffling your schedule. The Capricorn new moon on the 29th is a rather glorious way to end the busy year. The way forward has the features of breaking out from the tried and trusted.

SCORPIO 10.23-11/21 The second week is positive for any finance-income or other material improvements. The 14th comes just in time for addressing loans, taxes or shared resources. Power issues should be minimal.

Focus on family, including holiday enjoyments.

PISCES 2/20-3/20 Last month’s moreserious tone seems to continue just a bit longer in December. Circle the 10th as being somewhat challenging. If work has taken you out of the home, you may have time after the 19th to spend with family, or hang out with friends. 

LEO 7/23-8/22 Wake up and let go! This month’s final retrograde Mercury, starting on

SAGITTARIUS 11/22-12/21 Your world will take up quite a lot of your energy. Mars, in the

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