Amended Bell Group Self Storage application passes Scottsdale Planning Commission

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Bell Group Self Storage  By Melissa Fittro | Scottsdale Independent With a 4-3 vote, an application for a new self storage facility in north Scottsdale has been approved by the Planning Commission. Following an Oct. 25 meeting where a number of north Scottsdale residents spoke out against an application for a two-story, 106,224-square-foot storage facility …

Prop. 417 passes, promising roads! “This is really a game changer for Pinal County,” says Jordan Rose, founder and president of Rose Law Group

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents a coalition of property and business owners throughout Pinal County working to bring new transportation infrastructure to the county. By Jack Kincaid | Pinal Central It looks like Pinal County is going to be getting some new roads — and new taxes. Voters approved Propositions 416 and 417, according to the vote count that was …

Storage wars: Scottsdale residents challenge proposed storage building; ‘happy to take height issue off table,’ says Jordan Rose, founder and president of Rose Law Group

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Bell Group Self Storage By Melissa Fittro | Scottsdale Independent Editor’s Note: Just before 11 a.m. on Nov. 7, Bell Group Self Storage’s representative, Jordan Rose of Rose Law Group emailed the Independent stating as a result of the recent hearing, the applicant will be forgoing its height request. “I wanted to let you know that as …

Lucid gets extension on Casa Grande land option

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents landowners who helped make this project a reality By Heather Smathers | Casa Grande Dispatch An electric car manufacturer that hopes to build a plant in Casa Grande has been given an extension on an option to purchase the land needed for the factory, authorities say. Lucid Motors, the Menlo Park, California–based electric car manufacturer, …

Shea Homes closes on 124 home sites in Peoria

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Aloravita AZBigMedia Shea Homes has purchased 29 acres of land located at 75th Avenue and Jomax Road in Peoria, closing escrow on October 13, 2017. The seller was Aloravita I, LLC.  Construction of model homes is slated to begin third quarter of 2018. “Peoria’s economic growth continues to draw more new homebuyers to the area, and we …

Divorce penalty? Tax reform could shrink alimony for ex-spouses; could cause different advice in divorce cases, says Kaine Fisher, Rose Law Group partner, director Family Law

By Sarah O’Brien | CNBC Alimony payments mandated by divorce agreements could lose their beneficial tax treatment. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, unveiled on Thursday, includes a provision to kill the deduction that taxpayers get for making such payments to an ex-spouse. Although it’s just one of the many tax breaks eliminated under the legislation, experts say it will …

Supreme Court won’t hear Arizona case on custody fight over tribal kids; application of the act has led to a result that is not in the best interest of the children involved in the case, says Kaine Fisher, Rose Law Group Partner, director Family Law

By Andrew Nicla | Cronkite News  WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court has refused to hear an Arizona case that pitted a non-Indian mother and Indian father against one another in a fight for custody of their children. The decision Monday lets stand lower court rulings that invoked the Indian Child Welfare Act, a 1978 federal law that aimed to keep …

Protect your email from latest hacking trend; wire fraud plaguing real estate industry, says Lauren Reynolds, Rose Law Group litigator focusing on cybersecurity

RealtorMag Many real estate professionals have become keenly aware of targeted wire fraud scams that include email impersonation tactics. A growing avenue cyber criminals are using to get highly sensitive financial data is known as spear phishing, according to Asaf Cidon, vice president of content security for Barracuda Networks, a data protection company. Spear phishing is a highly targeted and researched personal attack that is …

Our Turn: What part of ‘property rights’ does Phoenix not understand?

Editor’s note: Opinion pieces are published for discussion purposes only By Barry Goldwater Jr. and Evan Bolick | The Republic Architectural preference at the Phoenix Chinese Cultural Center cannot trump property rights, no matter how loudly some object If a tea party started the American Revolution, a brake shop in Mesa started a private property rights revolution in Arizona. The …

USAA, Sunbelt start construction on 400-acre development

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Sunbelt Holdings. By Mike Sunnucks | Phoenix Business Journal Insurance company USAA and developer Sunbelt Holdings have started construction on a new 400-acre, mixed-use development in north Phoenix’s Norterra area. USAA owns the land, and Sunbelt is developing the project called Union Park at Norterra. It is located at 19th Avenue and Happy Valley Road next to USAA’s corporate campus …