• 12
    Apr

    THE INTERSECTION OF LAND USE: TRANSPORTATION

    By: Susan Daluddung Deputy City Manager, City of Peoria Transportation planning options for our citizens has to be part of the plan right now for success well into the future. The manner in which we commute should mirror our lives. Whether it’s by necessity or choice – safe, affordable, reliable and cost-efficient transportation options should be [...]

    posted in Environmental Stewardship, Green Building, Livabiilty Communities, Sustainability, Transportation/Air by Valley Forward Association

  • 04
    Apr

    DEVELOPMENT RETURNING TO DOWNTOWN TEMPE LIKE SPRING FLOWERS

    By: Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman Back in late 2007/early 2008, the city of Tempe watched as countless developments in the planning stages were shelved. The nation’s economy was not going to support the construction of new buildings. Unless a development was already significantly underway, the project did not get started. Something special is happening in [...]

    posted in Environmental Stewardship, Green Building, Livabiilty Communities, Revitalization, Sustainability by Valley Forward Association

  • 03
    Sep

    INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS – THE SILVER LINING OF THE RECESSION

    By: Stephen Anderson Partner, Gammage & Burnham  If you’re headed up to Prescott or Flagstaff this Labor Day weekend, then you’ll enjoy the new and vastly improved I-17, and you’ll shave an easy 10 to 15 minutes off what the trip used to take. That’s because the I-17 widening project between the 101 Interchange and [...]

    posted in Transportation/Air by Valley Forward Association

  • 26
    Oct

    THE ARIZONA WE WANT AND VALLEY FORWARD

    By Laurel Kimball President The Greenleaf Group, Inc. The Arizona We Want has been on my mind lately. Those words are the name of a recent Gallup Poll commissioned by Lattie Coor’s Center for the Future of Arizona, but they are also the focus of many Valley Forward programs and activities where, for forty years, [...]

    posted in Uncategorized by Valley Forward Association

  • 13
    Oct

    WILL ARIZONA’S SOLAR INDUSTRY BE LEFT IN THE DARK?

    By Michelle De Blasi Partner Quarles & Brady While you might think it’s a no-brainer that Arizona should be the “solar capital” of the universe, think again.  Many of the manufacturing facilities and solar energy generation projects that might otherwise be sited in Arizona are going to places like Oregon and New Jersey.  There are [...]

    posted in Uncategorized by Valley Forward Association

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