Amanda Ventura is an editor, award-winning writer and pop culture enthusiast. When she's not up against deadlines, she is exploring Arizona, trying recipes that require every dish in her kitchen be used, collecting 5K swag bags and race numbers and volunteering at a local animal shelter. Her bookshelf is full of autobiographies and her desk is covered in Sticky Notes. She dislikes the Oxford comma and still cannot believe she gets to meet and write about interesting people for a living.
Mary Ridberg Director of Leasing Sperry Van Ness Years with company: 6 Years as ICSC member: 9 How have consumer attitudes affected the retail market? As consumer confidence returns, the…
The Arizona commercial real estate industry saw some exciting announcements in 2013 — from Apple moving into the former First Solar facility in Mesa to the State Farm campus and…
Arizona’s development is expected to have a hot few years ahead of it, but no place is more on fire right now than the East Valley. General Motors announced its…
In the ’90s, the joke was that the state bird was a construction crane, says AAED’s Executive Director Joyce Grossman. She motions out the window of her downtown Phoenix office…
Megan Creecy-Herman Senior Director, Leasing & Development, Liberty Property Trust Years in CRE: 11 Years at company: 1.5 What was it about the industry that attracted you? The excitement of…
Gregory Valladao Senior Managing Direct/Market Leader, Cushman & Wakefield Arizona Years in CRE: 17 Years at company: 3.5 What was it about the industry that attracted you? I heard…
John Fortini Managing Member, Silver Fern Companies/Silver Fern Capital Years in CRE: 17 Years at company: 15 What was it about the industry that attracted you? When I was a…
Large curving pipes rising and falling in large sweeps across a field sounds more like a piece of abstract art parents would get red-faced about having to ask their kids…
Dan Puente Owner/President, D.P. Electric, Inc. Years in CRE: 33 Years at company: 23 What was it about the industry that attracted you? I was very young when I first…
There’s no such thing as a “small” deal in this industry, coming out of a recession. However, it’s the big deals, and the brokers who make them, that make the…
Knowing more about the people we work with is the fun side of the business. It helps start conversations and strengthens business relationships. In this installation of “After Hours,” meet…
With the fourth lowest crime rate in the nation, 10th lowest unemployment rate and residents who make it one of the wealthiest and beautiful cities in the country, 24/7 Wall…
