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Jan/Feb Issue Features Recent Bridge Construction in Arizona

To start 2025, Arizona Contractor & Community Magazine spans rivers, canyons, and freeways in the 96-page, Jan/Feb issue, exploring major...

Nov 4, 20241 min read

Nov/Dec Issue Spotlighting Paradise Valley Released

The magazine's November/December issue delves into Paradise Valley to examine how this town almost became a farming district and,...

Sep 4, 20241 min read

Sep/Oct Issue on Newsstands Now!

The Sep/Oct issue takes readers to vintage establishments from blue-collar bars to swank nightclubs where construction workers swapped...

Jul 15, 20243 min read

Construction Innovations: The future is here, but are we ready?

By Brian Kassalen As the construction industry continues to boom, builders are looking for new ways to keep up with increased demand,...

Jul 2, 20241 min read

The "Over and Under" Jul/Aug 2024 Issue Features Arizona's Bridges and Underpasses

The Jul/August issue takes readers over the Colorado River and under railroad lines, spotlighting Arizona’s bridges and underpasses....

May 1, 20241 min read

May/June Issue Hits Newsstands Today!

The May/June issue spotlights Harold Hart's extended family and the many transfer, storage, and rigging companies that started with his...

Mar 21, 20241 min read

ACC Magazine Spotlights Van Buren Street in the Mar/Apr Issue

The Mar/Apr 2024 issue spotlights the neon-lit path that once guided motorists to Phoenix, a city that once had the world at its...

Feb 14, 20242 min read

How to Backfill Fast: Flowable Concrete Fill

By Luke M. Snell, P.E. and Frank Kozeliski, P.E. Concrete is often considered a building material used to construct our buildings and...

Jan 30, 20242 min read

RECAPTURING THE SPIRIT OF PLACE: KIVA CRAFTS CENTER REHABILITATION

By Doug Sydnor Part Cherokee and Scotch-Irish, Lloyd Henri Kiva New was an artist and educator who arrived in Scottsdale in 1946. Painter...

Jan 9, 20241 min read

ACC Visits Prescott in Jan/Feb 2024 Issue

The magazine enters 2024 with a special issue about the Valley’s favorite Mile High Retreat, Prescott, which locals pronounce as...

Dec 29, 20232 min read

Saluting Arizona’s Builders: Karl Ronstadt

It’s fitting to spotlight Karl Ronstadt in this water-themed issue of Arizona Contractor & Community. “I always liked dam work,” Ronstadt...

Nov 3, 20231 min read

"Sign, Sign, Everywhere Are Signs" In Just-Released Nov/Dec 2023 Issue

Signs have the power to represent places that hold great meaning in our lives, including reminding us of where we had our first dates,...

Sep 29, 202311 min read

A Whale of a Tempe Tale: One Version of Big Surf’s Origin - Part Two

By Aaron Gilbreath When my family moved down the street from Big Surf in my fifth grade year, I became a regular, spending countless warm...

Sep 28, 20236 min read

A Whale of a Tempe Tale: One Version of Big Surf’s Origin - Part One

By Aaron Gilbreath Before my dad died at age 81 in 2020 — before age eroded his legendary memory — he told me the full version of a story...

Sep 15, 20232 min read

Old School Equipment: Holland Belt Loader

By Billy Horner “New Device Gobbles Earth,” screamed a headline in the Billings Gazette in 1975. The Holland loader, an earthmoving...

Sep 8, 20231 min read

Old School Equipment: The Balderson Bowldozer

By Billy Horner The Balderson family proved that big ideas could come from little hamlets. In the 1870s, they started a blacksmith shop...

Sep 1, 20231 min read

Sep/Oct Restaurant Issue Released!

Our recent March/April issue spotlighting vintage restaurants was such a hit that Arizona Contractor & Community magazine decided to...

Aug 2, 20232 min read

Saluting Arizona’s Builders: Herman Chanen

“Our construction firm does things differently,” the late Herman Chanen told The Arizona Republic in 1962. “Most contractors are just...

Jul 5, 20231 min read

ACC Magazine Releases the "L" Issue Covering the State's Logging & Lumber Industry

Arizona Contractor & Community magazine makes the case that a couple of “L” words, logging and lumber, could be added to the state’s...

Jun 30, 20232 min read

Architect’s Perspective: Phoenix’s Carnegie Public Library: A Legacy of Learning

Doug Sydnor, FAIA The Carnegie Public Library has been an impressive edifice on the State government mall fronting Washington Street...