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Volume 30 Issue 06 Goodyear, AZ
November 14, 2018
Business Briefcase By Connor Dziawura
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Hello, readers! I have a few developments of interest this week. Sticking with Goodyear and Avondale this time, there are a variety of happenings, from a new art center offering courses for adults and kids to the continued expansion of popular West Valley bike shop Trek. But those two are just in Goodyear. Before I get to those, I’ll start over in Avondale, where there are several developments including a multimillion dollar retail building sale and a new engineering consulting firm. Here’s the news! First, George Boukather of Newport Beach, California, purchased a 10,017-square-foot multi-tenant retail building at 1461 N. Dysart Road – northeast of Van Buren Street and Dysart Road, in Avondale’s Coldwater Plaza – from Great Falls, Virginiabased Sparty Holdings LLC for $2.89 million. Vice presidents Steve Julius, Jesse Goldsmith and Joe Compagno of CBRE negotiated the sale. Constructed in 2003, the four-unit building is 87 percent leased, with current tenants including Red Dragon Buffet, Cricket Wireless and CheckMate. “Today, free-standing buildings with high street visibility are the most desired properties to both retail tenants and investors, especially when surrounded by national tenants, like this building at Coldwater Plaza,” Julius said.
A 10,000-square-foot multi-tenant retail building in Avondale’s Coldwater Plaza sold for $2.89 million. The building is 80 percent leased, and current tenants include Red Dragon Buffet, Cricket Wireless and CheckMate. (Photo courtesy CBRE)
Moving along, employee-owned engineering consulting firm Terracon opened an office in Avondale, located at 1050 N. Fairway Drive, Building G, Suite 103, south of I-10. Senior project manager and office lead Jennifer Tran has relocated from the Tempe office, along with NCR group manager Marilyn Zenko. Regional Manager Brent M. Borchers, also the Tempe office’s principal, will oversee the new West Valley location. For more information, visit terracon.com/offices/phoenix. “We are looking forward to servicing our clients with a presence in the West Valley,” Borchers said. “Not only does our Avondale office bring with it the benefit of being local, but also provides (USPS 004-616) is published weekly
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our capabilities and expertise as a national firm.” Chuck Reynolds, senior client development manager and principal, added, “In addition to being closer to our West Valley clients and their growth, we simultaneously will be able to enhance some of our employees’ well-being by providing an office closer to home.” Next, UCreate Art Center recently opened a brick-and-mortar location in Goodyear. It is at 500 N. Bullard Road, Suite 28. It offers art courses for beginners as well as those looking to master their craft. Courses are available in ceramics, watercolors, acrylics, sculpting and more. Adults’ and kids’ classes are offered, but there are also open studio Subscriptions are $26 for 2 years, $14 for one year. Periodicals postage paid at Phoenix, AZ 85026.
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Ground Control hosting Red, White and Brew By Connor Dziawura
Ground Control owner Tara Rassas says exposing beer drinkers to new ideas is a goal of her West Valley bar and restaurant. “Our goal has always been education and trying to expose people to new and different ideas or just kind of expand everybody’s knowledge on craft beer,” Rassas said. One way of furthering that mission and growing the craft beer culture in western Maricopa County is through Ground Control’s annual Red, White and Brew Craft Beer Festival. The fifth one will be held in the Litchfield Park bar and restaurant’s parking lot from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, November 17. “It was just a way to kind of bring more excitement to it instead of just having beers on draft; to actually do an event centered around craft beer and give people the opportunity to try things kind of side by side and make it a fun event,” she continued. “We do live music and we serve food outside and just try to make it a fun, lively event where people can either, if they’re brand new, learn more about craft beer, or, if they’ve been drinking craft beer, introduce them to something different.” Among the more than 30 breweries expected to be showcased this year are 12 West, State 48, Huss and Left Hand. Hensley Beverage Company will be there, too. But that’s just scratching the surface. Though brands aren’t exclusively regional, many will, in fact, be local. “We have some beers that are from local, smaller breweries that are just trying to get their names out there, and then we also kind of have what we call our flagship breweries like Arizona Wilderness that everybody loves to drink and knows about but it’s just fun to have them because of the name recognition,” Rassas said. “We really love Borderlands and a couple of the other local beers as well. But we do get beers from breweries in California, and a lot of times they’ll send people from their own brewery
out to pour and to talk and educate and build their brands.” Though Ian Harwell, Ground Control’s self-described “beer guy,” said specific beers haven’t yet been revealed, the Red, White and Brew Craft Beer Festival will accommodate those who have a taste for styles ranging from lagers to ambers, IPAs, stouts, sours and even mead. “The ones that will get everyone most excited would be Arizona Wilderness, Dark Sky, Superstition Meadery, Tombstone Brewing and Wren House,” Harwell said. “Don’t get me wrong, all the breweries coming are outstanding in their own right, but the ones mentioned are all local and the best of the best of what Arizona has to offer right now.” He calls Arizona Wilderness, Dark Sky, La Cumbre, Rowley Farmhouse Ales and Wren House some “big additions” this year. Rassas acknowledged that Arizona Wilderness, Borderlands and Tombstone are popular, though she said beer style preferences range from person to person. “We just try to make sure that there is something there for everybody, because we have our stout drinkers and we have our IPA drinkers and we just want to make sure that they all have something that they can enjoy,” she said. “Light weight” tickets cost $17 and include six drink tickets and a souvenir cup, while “heavy weight” tickets cost $35 and include 15 drink tickets and a souvenir cup. Though the brews are the prime focus, a limited menu will also be offered at the festival. Limited menu offerings, according to Harwell, will include pulled pork sliders, Buffalo chicken sliders, white cheddar macaroni and cheese, French fries and personal pizzas. The restaurant will still be open inside, too. Once appetites are filled and thirsts quenched, guests can bear witness to live entertainment. “The beer is obviously the main draw
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but the band Los Gringos will be playing the whole duration of the festival,” Harwell explained. “They are awesome and are all former Luke Air Force pilots.” Speaking of Luke Air Force Base, proceeds from the Red, White and Brew Craft Beer Festival go the Fighter Country Foundation (FCF). This hits close to home for Rassas, who comes from a military family. “My husband is Air Force Reserve,” she said. “He’s been in the military for 22 years and so we always love giving back to the military.” The FCF is a nonprofit corporation, which was established in 2006, that supports “programs and services at Luke that aid, support and honor airmen and their families in need,” according to its website. “Luke Air Force Base is right down the street from Ground Control and we obviously have a strong connection to the base and military,” Harwell said, adding, “and the people who represent Fighter Country are outstanding people.” Last year, more than 400 people attended Ground Control’s Red, White and Brew Craft Beer Festival. Those attendance numbers mark a significant growth for the parking lot event, growth which Harwell and Rassas would love to see continue. “It grows just because people enjoy it and nobody has to drive to Phoenix to go or to Scottsdale or something,” Rassas said. “It’s something that’s right in their backyard. It just makes it a lot more accessible.” Red, White and Brew Craft Beer Festival Ground Control, 4860 N. Litchfield Road, Suite 103, Litchfield Park, 623.535.9066, redwhitebrew.brownpapertickets. com, groundxcontrol.com, 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, November 17, $17-$35.
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sessions. BYOB is available for adults after 4 p.m. UCreate Art Center’s owners, Yvette Cooke and Matt Seitz, got their start through Goodyear Branch Library’s InnovationHub. The InnovationHub – a partnership between the city of Goodyear, Entrepreneurship + Innovation at ASU, and the Maricopa County Library District – offers free resources like one-on-one business mentoring, the ASU Startup School and a monthly meetup called Business Builders. For more information on the business, visit ucreateartcenterllc.com or facebook.com/UCreateArtCenterLLC. Finally, Trek Bicycle Store is poised to expand to the Estrella Mountain Ranch community in April. The new store comes from Trek Bicycle Store of West Phoenix owners Brian Abraham and Brandon van Leuven, who relo-
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cated another location from Avondale to Goodyear earlier this year. Abraham said the new one will be approximately one-fourth the size of the duo’s current shop and will focus mainly on rentals for the Estrella community. Though an exact location is not yet set, Abraham said it will be near the Estrella Star Tower located off Estrella Parkway. It will also be part of a new welcome center being built by Newland Communities, he said. For more information on Abraham’s and van Leuven’s current shop, located at 13810 W. Test Drive, visit trekwestphoenix.com or call 623536-8454. That’s all the briefs for this week. Stay tuned for more news in the coming weeks! Thanks for reading! Have an item for Business Briefcase? Email Connor Dziawura at
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