Jimmy Magahern

2 weeks ago | insidetucsonbusiness.com | Jimmy Magahern

Like a real estate version of “Stranger Things,” Tucson’s housing market moves in two dimensions at once. There’s the visible one advertised by realtors, where median home prices are slowly dipping from record highs, inventory is gradually expanding and things are finally starting to stabilize. Then there’s its “upside down” — the alternate dimension underneath that surface calm, where Tucson continues to grapple with a chronic shortage of housing, especially for lower-income residents.

2 weeks ago | insidetucsonbusiness.com | Jimmy Magahern

Miriam White has a complicated relationship with her electronic devices. She’ll get up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and her motion-activated smart lights will automatically turn on. Inexplicably, turn off too soon. She’ll shout a voice command to her Alexa virtual assistant, but instead of getting lights, she’ll get loud baroque music blasting on her Amazon Echo smart speakers.

2 weeks ago | scottsdale.org | Jimmy Magahern

Along the northeast corner of Bell Road and the Loop 101, the mammoth 46-foot-tall concrete walls are already “tilting up” on a new 1.2 million-square-foot industrial development. By next April, when the first phase of the project is set to be completed, the Mack Innovation Park Scottsdale will start filling up with national tenants. The behemoth will usher in a new wave of large-scale industrial developments reshaping North Scottsdale’s commercial landscape.

3 weeks ago | tucsonlocalmedia.com | Jimmy Magahern

Miriam White has a complicated relationship with her electronic devices. She’ll get up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and her motion-activated smart lights will automatically turn on. Inexplicably, turn off too soon. She’ll shout a voice command to her Alexa virtual assistant, but instead of getting lights, she’ll get loud baroque music blasting on her Amazon Echo smart speakers.

4 weeks ago | insidetucsonbusiness.com | Jimmy Magahern

As federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies face growing political pushback, minority-owned businesses across Arizona are encountering a shifting economic landscape — one where key support programs are vanishing just as demand for entrepreneurship in underserved communities continues to grow.