Plaza Companies

Most Admired Company: 2011, 2013, 2016

Top Arizona executive: Sharon Harper, president and CEO

What it does: Full-service real estate firm specializing in the management, leasing and development of commercial properties and senior housing communities.

Admirable quality: Plaza Companies actively identifies new industries, such as research and biotechnology, where it can play a leadership role . It is on the cutting edge of some of the Valley’s most innovative economic development projects. Those include: SkySong, The ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center; BioAccel in the creation and development of BioInspire; and, most recently,  Plaza Companies was selected to build a 17-acre Peoria Innovation Campus.

To meet Arizona’s 2016 Most Admired Companies purchase tickets to the MAC Awards here.