A Southern California real estate developer is sold on the East Valley. Donahue Schriber, wh ich already owns 68 shopping centers — most of them in California — with 13 million square feet of shops, has just bought a shopping center in Gilbert and is building one in Mesa.

A Southern California real estate developer is sold on the East Valley.

The commercial real estate market has been going through some transition over the past few years, but experts at Zell Commercial Real Estate have a positive outlook for the future of Ahwatukee Foothills as more companies are moving in, creating more opportunity for local businesses.

Chandler's office market this year has outperformed all other submarkets across the Valley, according to CB Richard Ellis' third-quarter analysis of office, industrial and retail real estate.

Is the Valley headed toward the collapse of another real estate bubble?

Michelle Duke worries most when she features an open house.

Mesa real estate entrepreneur Doug Hopkins will appear in the second season of Property Wars, a Discovery Channel reality show about the bidding wars of the Valley real estate market.

Now that the state-owned land on its south side will be opening up a little faster than anticipated, Apache Junction is boning up on the ins and outs of the kinds of neighborhoods that have shaped the Valley.

Now that the state-owned land on its south side will be opening up a little faster than anticipated, Apache Junction is boning up on the ins and outs of the kinds of neighborhoods that have shaped the Valley.

A high-profile corner, which city officials once envisioned as the gateway to downtown Mesa, will likely house a fast-food restaurant, coffee shop or other retail store.

Scottsdale-based developer George Johnson has agreed to reimburse Florence for part of the cost of a study looking into the purchase of his company, Johnson Utilities. The town has decided not to buy the utility.

General Dynamics is footing the bill for a catered lunch for all 3,000 Scottsdale employees. Managers have to serve up the grub, spokeswoman Fran Jacques said.

Doing business on an Indian community requires trust — years of it. Gerry Blomquist spent seven years putting together the deal that would result in the Pima Center, a multiuse business straddling Loop 101.

A real estate developer has pulled out of a mixed-use project in downtown Mesa. New York-based Athena Group decided not to move ahead with plans for the southwest corner of University and Mesa drives, city officials confirmed Wednesday.

The Hayden Ferry Lakeside property has been sold, in what is the third major land transaction to take place recently in Tempe’s Mill Avenue District.

Seeking $42 million in lost profits, a prominent land developer has filed a lawsuit against Tempe for defaulting on a contract to renovate the historic Hayden Flour Mill.

A Las Vegas developer expected to play a major role in the East Valley’s growth has 90 days to decide whether he will testify under oath about why he paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a corrupt former Nevada official.

March 4, 2005

Developers of a major retail project planned for west Mesa took the offensive Thursday against opponents trying to derail it, vowing to spend more than a half-million dollars to sway voters.

Developers and land-use lawyers have contributed the most money to Chandler City Council candidates in the last two months, according to campaign finance reports filed Thursday.

Mesa has trashed a plan to raise money from private developers to relocate its incoming economic development director from the East Coast.

Doing business on an Indian community requires trust — years of it. Gerry Blomquist spent seven years putting together the deal that would result in the Pima Center, a multiuse business straddling Loop 101.

Mickey Mouse’s digs at Scottsdale Fashion Square, Mesa’s Fiesta Mall and Paradise Valley Mall are scheduled for extreme makeovers.

Gilbert Mayor Steve Berman makes no apologies for being friendly toward developers.