‘A cause larger than your life’ and other hopeful takeaways from COVID-19 and its business impact

By Mike Sunnucks | Rose Law Group Reporter The COVID-19 pandemic is an unrivaled economic challenge, but it is also an opportunity for employers to look at their operations, for entrepreneurs to find silver linings and for all of us to treat each other with more compassion and cooperation. Those were some of the takeaways Rose Law Group’s New Virtual Power Lunch …

What if I can’t pay my mortgage? RLG Transactional Dept. Director Cameron Carter comments

By Catherine Reagor | The Republic Foreclosures recently hit a 15-year low in metro Phoenix but could quickly climb as more homeowners can’t pay their mortgage because they lost income or jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Already, a record number of Arizonans have applied for unemployment benefits as businesses have shuttered or scaled back operations to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Help is being …

Rebooting Main Street, the retention and liquidity game and other ways for Arizona (and Pinal County) to survive COVID-19

By Mike Sunnucks | Rose Law Group Reporter The COVID-19 pandemic is putting economic development projects on temporary holds. But that does not mean businesses should not continuing moving forward with permits, government entitlements and the logistics of those projects so they are ready to go when the pandemic subsides and the economy reboots. That was one of the discussion …

RLG Senior Planner/Project Manager Nick Labadie talks long-term steps cities and development community can take now in response to COVID-19 (Part I)

By Nick Labadie, Senior Planner at Rose Law Group Long-Term Steps Cities and the Development Community Can Start Now in Response to COVID-19 There are a lot of people doing a lot right now to help get this pandemic under control. The help , however,  is mostly from politicians, scientists, doctors, nurses, first responders, and law enforcement. For many of the rest of us, we …

Three things to know before investing in Opportunity Zones. Dan Gauthier, RLG transactional attorney handling many O-Zone investments, provides further insight

  By Caroline Kane | Forbes When looking for new ways to grow a multifamily investment portfolio, new ventures sometimes can be found in the unlikeliest of places. Qualified opportunity zones, for example, are designated by a federal tax incentive program as “designed to spur economic development and job creation in distressed communities throughout the country and U.S. possessions by providing tax …

New road to Glendale’s spring training park could lead to long-sought development

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Mattamy Homes and assisted with the deal to build this road.) By Jen Fifield | AZCentral Spring training fans attending games at Camelback Ranch this year may face less of a traffic jam, thanks to a new road leading to the ballpark. Glendale officials and business leaders on Tuesday celebrated the opening of a new stretch of Ballpark Boulevard, which …

Lawsuit challenges Unger project referendum

By Wayne Schutsky | Scottsdale Progress (Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Spring Creek Development.) The Southbridge Two development in downtown Scottsdale will go before voters in November – if the opposition’s referendum petition survives a court challenge filed by the developer on Feb. 5. Scottsdale City Clerk Carolyn Jagger on Jan. 31 notified the Committee for the Preservation of Old …

Scottsdale OKs Downtown Short-Term Rental Plan

By Wayne Schutsky | Scottsdale Progress (Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents STR Ventures.) A once-controversial short-term rental project near Scottsdale City Hall passed the City Council with little fanfare or opposition just months after the Planning Commission recommended its rejection. On Feb. 5, the council voted 6-1 to approve a zoning change requested by STR Ventures, removing first-floor residential limits …