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Back To The Future: Our Half-Time Report of 2022

Starring Michael J. Fox, the Back to the Future movies in the 1980s were huge hits. During the first part of 2022 we feel as if we are now starring in a sequel.

The years were 1999 and 2017.

The first was when our company ran and won not one but two elections in the City of Scottsdale to fund and build a new arena for the Arizona Coyotes at the old Los Arcos Mall site at what is now SkySong. As everyone knows, the project then took a little detour to Glendale.

Further south, in Pinal County five years ago, we spearheaded another successful election for a $500 million package to build necessary new roads and freeways there.

So why talk about these items now? Because the Arizona Coyotes and Glendale have parted ways and the team’s future is now not all that far from the Scottsdale site two decades ago. And in Pinal County the Arizona Supreme Court in its no so infinite wisdom decided the Pinal County tax – which was designed to be more conscientious to consumers – was a flawed construct. So, a new election to reauthorize the tax is necessary and underway.

And this is where we begin our 2022 Half-Time Report, on both of these fascinating fronts.

TEAM EFFORT

The Arizona Coyotes are rebuilding on the ice. And off. Both take teams to score goals. We have had a colorful and interesting history with the Coyotes since they arrived in town, depending on the ownership group. That’s why getting to play a part with the current group leading up to the successful vote in Tempe recently to authorize negotiations which may turn a landfill into a landmark was particularly gratifying.

RUNNING IT BACK
That’s what we will be doing for the next few months, leading up to the November election, to again convince Pinal County voters that the funding of new roads and freeways there is prudent and timely. The measure won in 2017 and with traffic and needs only getting worse in this fast-growing part of Arizona, there is optimism about the outcome.

RUN FOR THE ROSES
The sister event to our Bentley Scottsdale Polo Championships is the Bulleit Bourbon Derby Dayclub. Celebrating the live racing at Turf Paradise and the Kentucky Derby itself, we had another record year on May 6th as over 144 tables were sold and 1,600 people attended the biggest and best Derby event in Arizona.

ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS
That was long-time client Barrett-Jackson in January at their 50th Anniversary setting world records and overall sales records as one of the best home-grown brands to go global again showed the state why it is a Super Bowl of economic development every year.

ONES FOR THE RECORD BOOKS
Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty is the pre-eminent luxury residential real estate brokerage that we have been privileged to represent for many years. Indeed, we appreciate the relationship so much we have turned down numerous offers to represent other brokerages. Luxury Agent Laura Briggs secured a buyer for the highest priced home ever sold in Arizona at $28.1 million. Luxury Agent Frank Aazami represented the seller and broke another record selling the highest priced unsplittable lot ever in Paradise Valley for $9.4 million. Along with this property, Aazami also sold another record breaking property for $7,750,000, plus $2,000,000 for an adjacent one-acre lot, totaling a sum of $9,750,000, making it the highest selling property west of 40th street in the Biltmore area. Truly a class company whose achievements are always a pleasure to publicize.

YEAR 11
Hard to believe, but that’s what it is for what has become the most attended polo event in America, The Bentley Scottsdale Polo Championships: Presented by Talking Stick. This year we are thrilled to be welcoming back the charismatic Wales Polo Team after a three-year, pandemic-induced hiatus. Also player Nic Roldan thanks to the Aspen Valley Polo Club and the Ganzi family. The next greatest show on grass arrives November 5th. Check out all returning will be America’s top polo the details including many new elements at ThePoloParty.com.

THE BIG APPLE
What a ride. What started as an idea in April, 2015 turned into a record setting musical at The Phoenix Theatre Company in 2020. Stunted by the pandemic, the will remained to do what had never been done in Arizona history: take a musical born here to the Broadway neighborhood. And so it happened. Opening on March 31st and concluding as scheduled on June 19th, Americano! impacted New York City for 12 weeks with message and might. Visits from President Obama and Lin- Manuel Miranda. Times Square billboards. Performances in Brooklyn to celebrate National Immigrant Heritage Month thanks to invites from Mayor Adams’ Office. What a thrill. What a ride for a story not yet fully written.

ONE FOR THE AGES
One of the great real estate brands and developers in Arizona history we are lucky to have been asked to assist them over the years on multiple fronts including recently with a major public relations push as their One Scottsdale project in North Scottsdale gathers momentum.

THE CROWN DOWNTOWN
One of the great real estate brands and developers in Arizona history we are lucky to have been asked to assist them over the years on multiple fronts including recently with a major public relations push as their One Scottsdale project in North Scottsdale gathers momentum.

INSPIRED
Nobility resides near Tatum and Shea where Gateway Academy educates aspiring students with autism. This year we conceived and helped them produce the First Annual Inspire Awards, beginning with Mountainside Fitness CEO and Founder Tom Hatten and the firm Black female to pilot a ship into space, Dr. Sian Proctor. What a moment for the school and student body as inspiration was everywhere from two of the Valley’s brightest lights from two of the Valley’s brightest lights who left an unmistakable impression at Gateway.

TINY TOWN. BIG STAKES.
The Town of Tusayan is Arizona’s smallest, and sits adjacent to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. Two years ago, the head of our first and 25-year client decided to run for Mayor there. The odds were impossible. But she and they defied. Mayor Clarinda Vail has done a great job since being elected and is seeking election anew, again trying to defy odds that are too long to describe here but as weird and real as they get in electoral politics.

TRASH TALK
Public affairs projects don’t get much more difficult than this nor clients any better. We are speaking of Phoenix-based Republic Services multi-year quest to cite a transfer station in northern Peoria, an area of rapid growth but lacking in this infrastructure. After fits, starts and ultimately a thoughtful proposal buttressed by public support and appropriate compromises the project was approved by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors after originally being opposed by thousands.

THE LITTLE EVENT THAT COULD. AND SHOULD.
Doc Jones is indefatigable when it comes to promoting jazz in Arizona. He had a vision to create the Scottsdale Jazz Festival. But for a few years his labors languished a bit. But he never gave up. We saw what he saw. Great potential for a wonderful event. And so, we dove in and helped to curate and promote a great event that sold out in April in Old Town Scottsdale. Look for even bigger and better things next year at Scottsdale’s refurbished Civic Center Mall.

RISING FROM THE ASHES
There has been no more frustrating property in the Town of Paradise Valley than the old SmokeTree resort near Scottsdale and Lincoln. Fortunately, that may be changing thanks to new client Walton International which bought the property June 30th and has sensible plans to revitalize the site over the coming months and years.

METAVERSE, ANYONE?
There is no more innovative law firm in Arizona than the one led by Jordan Rose, Court Rich and other partners at Rose Law Group. This Spring they did it again. By diving into the metaverse with aplomb, hosting and organizing the first wedding there, fused with a press conference and Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick. It generated world-wide news and a new practice area for the largest woman-owned law firm in Arizona history.

DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING?
If you are going to do one higher purpose musical why not do more? After two years of work that will be the cased as our Quixote Productions brings Tiananmen, based on the 1989 student protests in Beijing, to The Phoenix Theatre Company beginning in April, 2023 for 5 weeks. It will be one of the most important and provocative pieces of art in America at a time of a new, emerging Cold War between the United States and China and the struggle between democracy and authoritarianism now playing out on the world stage.

Finally, THANK YOU! To our many current, new and returning clients as they help position 2022, at least half-way through, as among our best ever. Fourth of July is around the corner and so are more fireworks for us through the balance of year as we go back to the future, and beyond.

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