Investment Call Center Expands in Chandler
The Chandler call center of Bank of America’s Merrill Edge investment service will be expanding the number of its investment advisors by about 50 percent over the course of 2013. The office, open since...
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Data Center in Tucson Offers Off-site Security for Valley Businesses
“As the data center market grows in Phoenix, it’s a great opportunity to have a second site two hours away,” says Bruce Lehrman, CEO of Involta, a full-service data center company that opened a...
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Ian Wist Battles the Big-box Stores
As Ian Wist describes what he calls his “uh-oh” moment, the tension in his voice mounts. “You live with that moment,” he explains. He’s speaking of a crossroads during a tough period in the family...
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Adventures in Contract Negotiations: Common Pitfalls to Avoid
Congratulations. Your business is up and running. Your hard work is paying off and you now find yourself on the verge of signing your first big contract. That’s great news. But slow down and take a...
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Seeking Sales Tax Change that’s Good for Business, Good for Cities
Governor Brewer’s creation of the Transaction Privilege Tax Simplification Task Force last year addressed the long-simmering concern that Arizona’s sales tax system is complicated, with the individual...
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Real Estate and the FIRE-to-ICEE Trend
“The real growth is happening in the ICEE sector,” says Bob Mulhern, managing director of Colliers International in Greater Phoenix. He is referring, in terms of economic development nationally, to the...
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The Business of Banking Is Banking on Small Business
“In just four years, we’ve seen 15 banks exit the market,” says Paul Hickman, president and CEO of the Arizona Bankers Association. “Between the economy and Dodd-Frank [post-recession federal...
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Taking the Lead
Lattie Coor (left), chairman and CEO of the Center for the Future of Arizona, moderates the “Leading Change for a Greater Arizona” panel discussion with panelists Gonzalo de la Melena, president and...
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Elliott D. Pollack, Elliott D. Pollack and Company
The Valley’s real estate market can be as hot as its summer temperatures, and has been an integral part of Metro Phoenix’s growth in the last 15 years to twelfth-largest metropolitan area in the...
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Phoenix Rising: Is Our Housing Market Heating Up?
Metro Phoenix appears to be slowly and steadily emerging from the ashes of the real estate collapse of five years ago, but is the city headed toward a re-bubbling of the market and repetition of all...
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