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Housing Construction on Roosevelt Row

The Glory Days of Chris-Town Mall

Arizona Roads at Statehood in 1912

Architects Predict the Future

Work Starts on New East Valley Freeway

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4. Editor’s Column - Douglas Towne

6. Valley Contracting

12. ADOT 2012 Updates

16. Territorial Trails - Douglas Towne

18. Heart and Try - Paul Beaulieu

22. Architects Predict the Future - Taz Loomans

23. Get Arizona Back to Work - Doug Click

24. The Glory Days of Chris-Town Mall - John Bueker

28. Do You Dig Arizona? - Connie Corder

30. Digging Through the Archives - William Horner

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Editor’s Column

Douglas Towne

If you happen to observe Arizona Contractor & Communitymagazine staff walking around with their heads hanging low,don’t worry. We’re probably just on the lookout for inscriptionsleft on the sidewalk by Arizona’s construction industry.Publisher Billy Horner’s interests are the imprints embedded inconcrete that provide the name of the construction firm andthe date of the pour. These concrete stamps reveal a history ofconstruction companies in Arizona and provide important cluesas to the age of a particular building or housing development.

My own underfoot fixation is an outgrowth of decades-longresearch of commercial signs. Besides neon, plastic, or hand-painted signs hung from poles or buildings, a store’s entrywaywas an important advertising location. These speckled andpolished terrazzo walkways featured the business nameembedded into the floor, sometimes inlaid with brass borders,

to form intricate, eye-catching designs. Such striking flooringwas common in stores located downtown which had heavy foot

traffic. The terrazzo reached from the front door to the sidewalkto draw in potential customers with its strong graphic qualitiesand beautiful color combinations.

Terrazzo has a long construction history. In ancient times,it was made using otherwise discarded marble chips that werebound together with clay and goat milk. The more modernterrazzo entryways you’re likely to see around Phoenix weremade with cement and an aggregate of quartz and marble, thensanded and buffed for a matte shine. Besides creating abeautiful piece of art that you can walk on, terrazzo’s use ofwaste materials make it a “green” product too.

More than their inherent beauty and sustainability, myfavorite feature of terrazzo floor signs is their unsurpassed

“More than their inherent beauty and sustainability, myfavorite feature of terrazzo floor signs is their unsurpassed

optimism. “Four

Left: Concrete imprint in downtown Phoenix. Below: Hanny’sDepartment Store postcard, late 1940s. Above left: Hanny’s terrazo

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optimism. Imagine the proprietors’ conviction in the futureprosperity of their stores that they had the names of theirbusinesses carved in stone to welcome customers for eternity.Did these shopkeepers ever envision a time when theirenterprise would not be a part of the business community?

Many of these signs have, not surprisingly, outlived thebusinesses they advertised. Along with their buildings, a luckyfew have been rehabilitated. Perhaps the best example of thisin Phoenix is Hanny’s, the International Style formerdepartment store located downtown at the southwest cornerof Adams and 1�� Streets. Opened in 1947, the department storehad an almost 40-year run before closing in 1986. The buildingwas eventually refurbished and reopened a few years ago witha new life as a swank nightspot. Hanny’s not only retained theirterrazzo entryways, they feature them on complimentarypostcards provided to customers with each check.

The sense of permanence provided by terrazzo entrywaysstands in stark contrast to many commercial buildings that havebeen constructed over the past 30 years. These businessesseem to have a lack of conviction in their future, especially thosewhich advertise themselves using vinyl banners tied to theirfacades. A strong wind is seemingly all that is necessary to blowaway these transient businesses.

Perhaps the current skittish economic climate hassomething to do with the implied lack of permanence incommercial construction, but it can’t be worse than what wasencountered during the Great Depression of the 1930s whensome of these terrazzo entryways were created. Maybe thereare other reasons though. Certainly in the internet age, brickand mortar businesses have to be spry and respond quickly to

the marketplace, which doesn’t bode well for expensivecommercial buildings.

Like so many “disposable” items available for householduse, are recently constructed buildings with too fewoutstanding features, unconsciously destined to only be usedfor a limited period? Does this factor influence decisions todemolish rather than renovate them? Should these buildingscome with a “raze by” date like many food products that havea “sell by” date? As with many things we eventually come toappreciate, will the passage of time allow us to becomenostalgic for these structures? Or will trends again flip socommercial structures will again be built with such faith in theirfuture that they will emblazon their name in a terrazzo floor?Only time will tell but I don’t think I’ll be hedging my bet….

So as you gaze up at some of Arizona’s most beautifulbuildings, don’t forget to look down as you enter the structure.Architects and craftsman of an earlier era likely created anamazing terrazzo floor that’s sure to compliment even the mostelegant footwear.

Douglas Towne

“Architects and craftsman of an earlier era likely created anamazing terrazzo floor that’s sure to compliment even the

most elegant footwear.”

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ASU West Hungers for Dining Facility Completion

There’s nothing like the wrath of hungry students to spur aconstruction project to stay on schedule. “It’s a race to the finish to makesure meals are ready for students,” says Hardison Downey ConstructionSupervisor Eric Williams. His company is striving to open the ASU WestDining Facility in time for the start of the fall semester.

There are some unique aspects of the work such as the jumbo bricksused in the dining area to match the existing police building and movingthe Jamba Juice outlet on campus into the new facility. To create an“industrial feel,” all concrete and ceilings are exposed. “Probably thebiggest challenge though is building in the midst of an operational schooland keeping everyone coordinated safely,” says Williams.

FIRMS INVOLVED: Architect - Hanbury Evens Wright Vlattas & Company.YARDS OF EXCAVATION/ABC/AMOUNTS: Minimal, mostly taking out ofexisting parking lot.ARCHITECTS/ ENGINEERS: SCA Houston (structural), TME Inc. (MEP)Dibble Engineers (Civil), Webb Development (food service,) JeremiahAssociates (Telecom)FUNDING/ OWNERS: American Campus Communities & ASUCOMPLETION DATE: August 8, 2012.

Dorm Construction Dodges Courtyard Problems

The old adage, “don’t paint yourself into a corner,” proved goodadvice for the construction of the Casa de Oro student housing complexat ASU West in Glendale. “To avoid a fiasco at the end of the project,trees and granite were added to the courtyard area early in the projectso we did not close ourselves out,” says Hardison Downey ProjectEngineer Rebecca Freitas. Other interesting aspects of the constructionwork were after the building was framed in wood, a thick brick veneerwas added to match the existing campus facilities.

PROJECT NAME/LOCATION: ASU West Student Housing “Casa De Oro”Glendale AZFIRMS INVOLVED: Architect - Todd and AssociatesOWNERS: American Campus Communities & ASU

Valley Contracting

Top: Interior view of exposed mechanical work and ceiling in the maindining facility.Second: View from east side of ASU West housing project, exterior skinincludes stucco, red brick veneer, and precast concrete bands.Third: Maverick Masonry, El Mirage laying out for install of 4x4x16 brickveneer on west face of the ASU West Dining Hall.Bottom: ASU West SRC project being built by Haydon Building Corp.

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Above: A nine-wheel roller compacts finalprocessed lift of ABC.

Left: A 4,000 gallon water truck providesconstant moisture to the ABC grade for dustcontrol.

Right: Jeff Price, Project Superintendent forIntermountain West.

Right: Among the 14 pieces of equipment on Tanner’s jobsite are2 623B Cat scrapers rolling in a long row of pads for the newhousing track. Below: Facing south are Tanner’s heavy ironworking below the San Tan Mountains. Inset: ProjectSuperintendent Ron Anglin and blade operator Mike Scott.

Riggs Road Upgraded

The Town of Gilbert has recently contracted with Intermountain West CivilConstructors, Payson, to construct improvements along Riggs Road from Val VistaDrive to Recker Road within the Town of Gilbert. Upgrades include widening RiggsRoad to three lanes in each direction; previously the traffic was limited to a single-lanein each direction. This three-mile stretch of roadway is bordered on the east by theTown of Queen Creek and on the west by the City of Chandler.  Construction beganin late November and is scheduled to be completed in January 2013. Intermountainwill work the project in two phases. Overall cost of the project is estimated at $10.2million and funded by Gilbert.

No Dusty Roads for Tanner

M.R. Tanner Construction, Gilbert, is moving lotsof soil for the new subdivision by Taylor Morrison,Adora Trails. Located just south of Riggs and HigleyRoads, it is one of a number of new developments inthe East Valley. Water is the biggest issue for this200-plus housing project as Tanner crews are pumpingthis resource nearly a mile at a rate of 1,000,000 gallonsper shift to keep up with their earthmoving machines.

Roosevelt Row Residences

It seems no one—people, stores or even construction projects—areunaffected by the artistic vibe on Roosevelt Row.

Ribbon, usually associated with cutting ceremonies involving local dignitariesat the end of a building project, was used to beautify the construction site locatedalong Roosevelt Street between Third and Fourth Streets. Shortly after groundwas broken in February on the residential project that consists of three buildingsranging in height from five-to-seven stories, Hands On Greater Phoenix createda diamond-design ribbon mural on the construction fence utilizing over 400volunteers. And there’s yet another mural project in the works to be created onsite this fall.

Besides the creative energy along Roosevelt Row, fans of First Friday are alsofamiliar with another characteristic of the neighborhood: a lack of parking. Thelimited space for vehicles has proven a challenge to construction workers whoalso have had to be resourceful in working around the site’s limited layout space.

Project Name/Location: The working name is Downtown Phoenix Housing; theofficial name has not yet been released. The site is located on the south side ofRoosevelt Street.

Project Summary: This is a residential project consisting of three buildingsconstructed in one phase. The south parcel on Fourth Street between Garfieldand McKinley is an eight-story with 178,488 gross square feet (gsf) post-tensionedbuilding with 160 units. The north parcel on Roosevelt between Third and FourthStreets is a seven-story, mixed use post-tensioned building (147,784 gsf) withretail space available on the first floor and 166 residential units. The third structureis a five-story precast parking garage with 432 parking spaces that willaccommodate the residents of both buildings and also allow parking for theneighborhood retail.START/FINISH DATE: February, 2012 – June, 2013FIRMS INVOLVED: Concord Eastridge, Inc. and EdR, Hardison DowneyConstruction, Inc.ARCHITECTS/ENGINEERS: Ayers Saint Gross Architects +Planners, DibbleEngineering, Inc., Civil Engineers Henderson Engineers, Inc., MEP EngineeringPaul-Koehler Assoc., LLC, Structural Engineer SmithGroup/JJR, Landscape ArchitectFUNDING/OWNERS: EdR Phoenix / Summa West, LLC

Background image: North buildinglooking west at ribbon mural.

Top right: Suntec Concrete preparessouth building shear wall for pour.

Mid right: L-R Susan Cruz- HardisonDowney Safety Coordinator, Gonzalo

Lozano- operator from JD Steel andsubcontractor to Suntec Concrete, who

are performing all the cast-in-placeconcrete on the project, and Teri

Krawitz- Project Manager for HardisonDowney. Bottom right: West building

looking north at shear wall.Bottom left: Suntec prepares north

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Summer Detours:

$250 Million in Construction Projects Planned for Northern Arizona

Interstate 17/State Route 69 Cordes Junction Traffic Interchange:

The Cordes Junction traffic interchange is being reconstructed at the junction of I-17 andState Route 69, approximately 65 miles north of downtown Phoenix. Built nearly 50 yearsago when traffic volumes were much lower, the interchange mixes local and throughtraffic, causing congestion and delays. Highway traffic headed to Prescott will be separatedfrom local traffic driving at slower speeds. The $50.9 million project is scheduled to becompleted in summer 2013.

Tucson Interstate 10 Widening Project:Interstate 10 is expanding to four lanes in each direction tobetter handle increases in traffic between Ruthrauff Road andPrince Road in Tucson. One major improvement will bereconstructing the Prince Road traffic interchange so that itwill pass over the Union Pacific Railroad tracks and I-10. Otherconstruction includes updating the on-ramps and off-rampsto provide better connections and improved access formotorists as well as new landscaping throughout the projectarea.

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$250 Million in Construction Projects Planned for Northern Arizona

Interstate 17 Munds Park Traffic Interchange:

The Munds Park traffic interchange, located approximately 20 miles south of Flagstaff,is undergoing a complete reconstruction, including the replacement of two bridgesthat were built in 1958. The two new bridges will measure 100-feet long (replacingthe old 25-foot long bridges). After completing the northbound bridge in 2011, ADOTis replacing the southbound bridge and repaving I-17 through the work zone. Whilethe work is being done, motorists are being detoured over to the northbound lanesof I-17. The $10 million project is scheduled to be completed this fall.

Projects scheduled for completion.U.S. 93 Southbound Wagon Bow Ranch and Southbound Deluge Wash Widening: This seven-mile segment of U.S. 93 north ofWikieup (mileposts 109-116) includes the construction of new southbound lanes, which will make it a four-lane divided highway.The $25.9 million project is one of a series of widening projects ADOT has completed on this heavily-traveled corridor betweenPhoenix and Las Vegas. Work is expected to be completed this fall.

Interstate 40 Re-paving, Perkins Valley to Holbrook: An eight-mile long pavement improvement project on I-40 (mileposts282-290) is currently under way near Holbrook. The $7.9 project, which started last fall, is scheduled to be completed thissummer.

Interstate 40 Little and Big Lithodendron Wash Bridges: Built in 1959 and 1960, the Little and Big Lithodendron Wash bridgeson I-40 (milepost 301), approximately 15 miles east of Holbrook, are being replaced. The $9.7 project will be complete this fall.

State Route 260 Doubtful Canyon Widening: The Doubtful Canyon widening project, approximately 20 miles east of Payson,includes the construction of three miles of four-lane divided highway between the previously improved Kohl’s Ranch andChristopher Creek segments along SR 260. The widening of SR 260 at Doubtful Canyon is the fifth of six projects designed towiden the highway from Star Valley to the Mogollon Rim. The $29.4 million project is scheduled for completion this fall.

State Route 89A Spur (Fain Road) Widening: After becoming a state highway in 2011, SR 89A Spur (Fain Road) will be transformedfrom a two-lane roadway to a four-lane divided highway between SR 69 and SR 89A in Yavapai County. The majority of the workwill involve construction of a new northbound roadway parallel to the existing five-mile stretch of Fain Road. The $16 millionwidening project is scheduled for completion this fall.

Interstate 17 Re-paving, Camp Verde to State Route 179: A nine-mile stretch of I-17 will be re-paved from Middle Verde Roadin Camp Verde to SR 179, approximately 40 miles south of Flagstaff. The $4.2 million project will start in June and will be completedby fall.

Interstate 17 Southbound Climbing Lane (Uphill from Camp Verde): This $15 million project includes the construction of a thirdlane, two-miles long at the top of Copper Canyon and an auxiliary lane between the State Route 260 interchange and the GeneralCrook Trail traffic interchange. ADOT expects the project to start before the end of the summer.

Interstate 40 Re-paving, Buffalo Range to Two Guns: Approximately 25 miles east of Flagstaff, a five-mile segment of I-40 willbe re-paved this summer. The $6.9 million pavement improvement project is scheduled for completion in September.

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Work Starts on New East Valley Freeway

Although initial funding only calls for construction of a single mile of freeway, State Route 24 (SR24) is forecast to have a major impact on transportation in the East Valley. The freeway will connectthe Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport with many new businesses planned for the former Mesa ProvingGrounds site. Planned to open in late 2013, the freeway will begin where the Loop 202 Santan Freewaycurves near the airport and heads southeast, ending at Ellsworth Road. Among the benefits of SR 24is improving access to a large volume of traffic coming from Queen Creek, San Tan Valley and JohnsonRanch. The project is estimated to cost $71 million.

Banicki Construction is the major contractor on the freeway. Their crews will excavate 400,000yards of soil from two retention ponds and still have to import an additional 1,000,000 yards of fillmaterial for the freeway base. The Tempe firm is also contracted for ABC work later in the year. Crewsare currently excavating material to build the massive bridge abutments. In conjunction with BanickiConstruction, R.L. Wadsworth, Utah, will head the structural bridge work.

Future plans call for an extension east into Pinal County, continuing east and southeast potentiallytying into either US 60 or SR 79. Funding plans call for construction of the portion of SR 24 in MaricopaCounty to begin after 2015. No funding is currently identified for the portion in Pinal County.

Background: Banicki’s equipment and D9N dozer pulling a slope. Top: Facing south is a panoramic viewof Banicki’s short haul operation. Above right: Project Superintendent, Jack Fountain overlooking his

dirt crews. Right: D9N lines up to assist loading of a 631 push scraper.

Territorial Trails: Transportationin Arizona before Statehood

Douglas Towne

As Arizona celebrates its centennial, motorists travel in air-conditioned comfort around the state, serenaded by theirfavorite music via satellite radio and guided to their destinationby GPS. Modern roadways allow safe, speedy travel whichprovides Valley residents many benefits including quick highwayescapes to enjoy cool mountain air.

On their journeys, most drivers take the state’s highwaysfor granted, not pausing to appreciate the engineering,construction, and tax dollars that went into creating thetransportation network. Some may even be as delusional as tothink these roads were largely intact upon Arizona becomingthe 48th state in 1912. Didn’t the Native American trails andpioneer roads just need a few guardrails and some yellowcenter line markers to allow auto easy passage?

Nothing could be further from the truth.Arizona had historically been difficult country through

which to travel and the situation hadn’t improved much uponstatehood. The condition of the few existing roads was poorand only a handful of small stretches were properly graded ordrained according to the recent report, Arizona TransportationHistory, commissioned by the Arizona Department ofTransportation (ADOT). “There are a few miles of graveled roadin Graham, about ½ mile in Yuma and several miles of calicheroad in Maricopa,” State Engineer Lamar Cobb reported to

Governor George W.P. Hunt in 1913. “I know of no otherimproved roads in the state, outside of cities, towns, or specialroad districts, though I may have missed a half mile or soelsewhere.”

Aside from Native American footpaths, the first majorattempt at clearing a pathway through Arizona was in 1846.Cooke’s Wagon Road was a rough trail that connected Santa Fewith San Diego. Blazed by soldiers under the command ofCaptain Philip St. George Cooke during the Mexican-AmericanWar, “road building” largely consisted of removing theoccasional obstacle and marking the trail that connectedreliable water holes.

In 1857, Congress commissioned two trails across what wasthen called the Territory of New Mexico. In the north, Beale’sWagon Road was built along a path which many years laterwould become Route 66. In the south was the El Paso – Ft. YumaWagon Road which would become famous for the ButterfieldOverland Mail that used it from 1858 - 1861. On its first runacross what would become Arizona, the stage took three anda half bone jarring days to travel its 437-mile length.

Upon creation of the Arizona Territory in 1864, the lack ofwagon roads continued to be a major problem. Yet theTerritorial Legislature, wanting to hold down taxes, ceded thatresponsibility to counties and private companies. Only a few

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private toll roads were built and those were either soonabandoned or converted into public roads.

For over four decades, counties were in charge of publicroad construction and progress on improving the territory’sroads was slow. Most new roads were local pathwaysconnecting mines, farms, or ranches with towns, according tothe ADOT report. The only roads designed for traveling longerdistances were army wagon roads that connected federalmilitary camps. Perhaps the most famous is the General CrookTrail built between 1871 and 1874 that connected Fort Whipplenear Prescott with Fort Apache south of Pinetop-Lakeside. Yeteven travel along these army “roads” was slow and difficult.

The construction of railroads in the 1870s helped ease theArizona Territory’s transportation challenges, with the SantaFe, Atchison and Topeka crossing in the north and the SouthernPacific utilizing a southern route. This transportation activityinspired a change of heart with the Territorial Legislature, whichauthorized the first bonds for highway construction in Arizonain 1877. Totaling $10,000, the funds were used to construct awagon road connecting Globe with Phoenix.

The legislature funded several other roads until Congresspassed the Harrison Act in 1886 that imposed new limits onhow much debt each territory could incur. Because the ArizonaTerritory had already exceeded those limits, all new roadconstruction for the next 23 years was undertaken by counties.

As a result, most new road construction occurred in morepopulous counties like Maricopa, Pima, and Yavapai. This leftthe Arizona Territory with the most basic road network thatwas of widely-varying quality and possessing only a single bridgethat crossed the Gila River at Florence. The territory’s aridclimate allowed this network to barely function until muddyconditions slowed and sometimes halted wagon and auto traffic.

A few years before statehood, the legislature made changesthat would help create a modern road system. In 1909, itcreated the position of Territorial Engineer who was chargedwith designing and supervising the construction of a formalhighway system. The system was started with only two roads,one running east-west connecting Duncan and Yuma, and theother running north-south between Douglas and the GrandCanyon, according to the ADOT report. Most importantly, thelegislature created Arizona’s first road tax levied on property.The new tax raised limited funds because of its low rate andlimited tax base but allowed construction of 145 miles of newroadway and improvements to existing roadways.

The creation of a functioning system of roads would haveto wait however, until Arizona became a state and could relymore heavily on assistance from the federal government.

“Didn’t the Native American trailsand pioneer roads just need a fewguardrails and some yellow center

line markers to allow auto easypassage?

Nothing could be further from thetruth.”

Across top right: US postage,1884. Across bottom: Laying tracks onthe Prescott and Eastern Railroad in Arizona Territory, 1898. Aboveleft: Wiley Post flying his bi-plane under the Navajo Bridge at MarbleCanyon, 1930. Above right: Paving Thomas Road, 1934. Bottom right:Fisher Contracting Company with their steam-powered trenchingmachine, 1913.

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Frank Kelly awoke in a Prescott hospital to the softvoice of his nurse and the stabbing pain of the broken rib in hisside. This Arizona cowboy and construction worker had growntough and salty while riding and working in the unforgivingdesert landscape. He had also grown to expect these types ofinjuries, being a veteran of the Southwest’s Pro Rodeo circuit.But what his sun-bleached, steel blue eyes did not expect tosee was the four hundred dollars in the envelope next to hisbed. “Four hundred dollars! For getting hung up and thrown off?I got to get back and find out how much they’ll pay me to ridehim.” Frank slipped out of bed, pulled on his blue jeans, andbuttoned up his shirt. He chewed through the excruciating,dagger-like pain while dragging each boot past the heel andthen he made for the door. Frank arrived back on the 1971 movie set of “JuniorBonner” and was stopped by one of the film crew just outsidethe bucking shoots. “You can’t ride! We just took you to the hospital last night,”said the excited Hollywood roadie. It was true that Frank hadtried to ride Sunshine the night before and ended up bothhung-up and hooked. But this was why the movie casting agentshad hired Arizona cowboys, because the Hollywood boys couldnot ride this bull and did not have the heart to try. The stunt adjuster, Cassie Tibbs, saw Frank and the studioemployee and called over, “Let him through. He’ll ride him.” As the film crew prepared to shoot, Frank donned theblonde Steve McQueen wig and pulled his rope tight aroundthe irritated mass of hair, horns, and hate that was Sunshine.

Turn after turn, Kelly stuck it on Sunshine and rode himthorough the buzzer. In back-to-back nights, Frank had providedthe director with the two key bull riding scenes: Bonner’s brutalhang up and his victorious return. Frank “Machine Gun” Kelly’s story is one filled withhistorical Arizona highlights. His family moved to the state in1941 when he was one year old. Their first night was spent inthe motel whose ruins still stand in the bottom of the Salt RiverCanyon on Highway 60. He grew up in the East Valley where, atfifteen years old, he began his lifelong love affair with bullriding. The riding strengthened his body, forged his iron will,shaped his tireless work ethic, and provided him with his ticketto the Arizona experience. As a young man he rode in several movies which werefilmed in Arizona. He was part of the land rush in “Cimarron”(Benson, AZ; 1960), in “The Greatest Story Ever Told” (Page, AZ;1965) he doubled for King Herod, and in “Junior Bonner”(Prescott, AZ; 1972) as he rode the bull for Steve McQueen. Frank began working as an operating engineer to providea steady stream of income to support his family and pay forrodeo entry fees. He chose that type of work because it kepthim “strong and tough enough to keep riding.” His civilconstruction career began on the railway project of MorrisonKnudsen (MK) that was undertaken to connect the Black MesaCoal Mine to the power plant in Page. Frank walked on theproject with little heavy equipment experience, but heimmediately distinguished himself with his ability to learnquickly, his relentless drive for excellence, and his strong selfconfidence. He was soon moved to ballast foreman and,eventually, conductor.

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Across Left: L-R Alvin Deal, Frank Kelly, Jerry Young, Gary Leffew, andLloyd Baze after a fight at the rodeo.Top right: Left to Right: Doug Kelly (Frank’s cousin) and Frank Kelly.Above: Frank Kelly atop a bull in Houston, 1966.

As Frank told this story he added, “I always had a lot of try. You need tohave heart and try to make it.” Frank had both and he took them to every jobsite and rodeo he everattended. It was heart and try that made him a successful operator andforeman on projects he did for Pulice Construction, Combs Construction,Rummell Construction and FNF Construction. At 51 years old, that same heartand try carried him to the Senior Pro Finals Bull Riding in Reno and theProfessional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) Turquoise Circuit Finals.

He is proud to show his PRCA Gold Card, which is only given tocowboys who have competed in at least twenty years of PRCA events. He sayswith a wily smile, “I am the only PRCA gold card member that has made thePRCA Finals with the kids.” Frank competed in bull riding for more than thirtyyears and rode his last bull at age fifty-three.

With a warm, yet gritty voice, Frank tells me, “Adding it all up, it hasbeen a pretty good life because of bull riding. Once you have accomplishedit, you feel like you can do anything.” Frank’s resume of PRCA fame (that tookhim from Arizona to Madison Square Garden), successful constructionprojects, and movie stardom all stand as evidence to the validity of thatstatement. Frank is also quick to add, “I am not done yet either.” At 72 yearsold he still works as a heavy equipment operator, teaches bull riding clinics,and is a proud husband, father and grandfather. This last fall he took hiseleven-year-old son, Hunter, on his first deer hunt, and Frank is teaching himabout tracking and trapping in the Arizona wilderness.

Frank slipped the toothpick back into the black band of his strawcowboy hat as we finished our lunch at Moreno’s Mexican Restaurant inQueen Creek. It was about then that a young man and woman, maybeeighteen years old, stopped Frank to say hello. Respect and admiration werepainted on their youthful faces and the boy’s eyes testified to Frank’s legacyin his community. It is a legacy that continues to grow even today.

Top: Black Mesa Train Project, 1972Middle: Belt buckle and ring- 1990 PRCA ChampionBottom: Frank Kelly with son Hunter

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Some of the highlights of the original Builder/Architectmagazines are the interviews with the great architects of thetime, many of whom we recognize today as being extremelyinnovative and influential. Below are short excerpts frominterviews with Paolo Soleri and Paul Yeager conducted byBuilder/Architect in 1971. As a bonus, there is a quote fromVernon Swaback about the state of home-building.

Excerpt from an interview with Paul Yeager in the May 1971issue of Builder/Architect:

Builder/Architect: Let’s face it, many builders are designingcustom homes today. And if they themselves don’t do thedesigning, a designer or staff architect is hired. Can you foreseethe day when the independent architect specializing in thecustom home will become a thing of the past?

Paul Yeager: If we are not already there, it’s going to bevery soon. The individual client-architect relationship isdisappearing because the discriminating custom home client isdisappearing. There isn’t apparently enough taste among thepeople with money to warrant it anymore. The builders havethe market because, as they say, it sells. Which of course goesback to H.L. Mencken’s comment: “No one ever lost any moneyunderestimating the taste of the American public.”

Excerpt from an interview with Paolo Soleri in the July 1971issue of Builder/Architect:

Builder/Architect: What do you see as the main reasonsfor urban decay in our cities?

Paolo Soleri: The abandonment a long time ago ofdeveloping the public sector of urban life so that everythingwas geared on the premise that the private sector and freeenterprise was ‘it’. Now we find out that it is absurd. There isno society without a very strong public sector that has to becared for.

Excerpt from a short article onVernon Swaback in the May 1971 issueof Builder/Architect:

Vernon Swaback: “The housingindustry is going into its own industrialrevolution in a deplorably polarizedcondition. At the one pole we have theproducts of contractors and mobilehome manufacturers which at best arehygienic but uninspiring. At the otherpole, are the architects who continue tocreate lonely works of art, which areincreasingly irrelevant.”

Architects Predict the Future:Paolo Soleri, Paul Yeager and Vernon Swaback

Taz Loomans

Above: Paolo Soleri.Right: Paul Yeager.

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Which tax do you hate paying the most?It’s a complex question and your

business’ particular structure will likelydetermine your answer. But I’d wagerthat one of the top if not the top answeris the personal property tax.Unlike with the income tax, businessesmust pay their property taxes regardlessif they made a profit or not or if theyexpanded or slashed their workforce.There is no loss carry-forward or othersuch ways to mitigate your personalproperty tax liability during lean times. It’san awful lot like paying rent on somethingyou already own.

Simply put, Arizona’s personalproperty tax is a job-killer. It literallypunishes businesses for making thenecessary investments that causes theprivate sector to create new jobs andgrow the economy. It essentially posts a“closed for business” sign on Arizona thatdiscourages the relocation of capital-intensive companies looking for refugefrom high-tax and high-regulation stateslike California and those back east.My business is Arizona Hi-Lift and wespecialize in aerial, boom and scissor liftequipment rentals and sales. I know firsthand that the Great Recession hasn’tbeen kind to new equipment andmachinery sales.

In Maricopa County where 85 percentof the state’s personal property is located,we have seen the acquisition of locally-accessed personal property plummet 56percent to levels not seen since the mid-1990s.When businesses stop buying newequipment and machinery they stopcreating jobs. When job creation stops it’sno wonder why Arizona’s “real”unemployment rate has settled in at17.1% which counts the officiallyunemployed along with those workingpart-time but wanting full-time work and

those so discouraged that they’ve givenup looking altogether.Arizona has to get back to work creatingjobs.

The good news is that in a few shortmonths, Arizona voters can help reversethis sorry state of affairs and unleash oursmall business job creators by passingProposition 116, the Small Business JobCreation Act.Proposition 116 amends the ArizonaConstitution to set the personal propertytax exemption for new equipment andmachinery purchases to an amount equalto the earnings of 50 Arizona workers—approximately $2.4 million. Personalproperty purchased before 2013 wouldremain subject to the current indexedamount which this year is $68,079.

Structuring the change prospectivelyrather than applying it to existingpersonal property means 100 percent ofany tax relief will be focused on job-creating new investment. There will bezero windfall or unearned reward for abusiness doing nothing to create newjobs. Instead, only those businessesreinvesting in Arizona through newequipment and machinery purchases willsee a benefit—as will their newemployees indirectly.

The National Federation ofIndependent Business’ Farrell Quinlanand Senator Andy Biggs (R-Gilbert)specifically wrote Proposition 116 toensure that K-12 school budgets would beprotected. An official state economicanalysis concludes that Proposition 116will “provide the same amount of totalfunding to schools” and would result inno reduction in K-12 funding. (Source:Joint Legislative Budget Committee (JLBC)Fiscal Note on SCR 1012, January 24, 2012)

Sen. Biggs and NFIB’s Arizona statedirector also wrote the referendum toprotect owner-occupied residentialproperty taxpayers. Homeowners will see

no tax shift from the personal propertyalready on the books while the typicalresidential property taxpayer couldexperience an “almost negligible” 0.3percent annual impact moving forward—or about three dollars on a $114,800home in a typical taxing jurisdiction.(Source: JLBC Analysis, December 15,2011)

Clearly demonstrating the soundnessof the referendum, Proposition 116received unanimous, bipartisan supportthis year when the Arizona Legislaturereferred the measure to the November6th General Election ballot. Its passage isendorsed by small business owners,farmers, contractors, manufacturers,economic development experts andchambers of commerce.

Despite this strong support, we mustnot forget that Proposition 116 proposesto rollback a tax so it is by no means a surething. We cannot afford to rest on ourearly successes especially in a politicalenvironment where class warfare appealsabound.We can win this vote, not only forourselves but for the thousands of ourfellow Arizona citizens who desperatelyneed the jobs passage of Proposition 116will create

I invite you to contact the “Vote YESon 116” campaign to request moreinformation or perhaps a yard sign. Also,if you can, please consider making acontribution to help us spread the wordon “Vote YES on 116”.

Doug Click is president of Arizona Hi-Liftin Phoenix, Arizona and is chairman of

the “Vote Yes on 116” campaign(www.VoteYESon116.com, PO Box

13692, Tempe, Arizona 85284,VoteYESon116@Q.com).

Proposition 116 Will Get ArizonaBack to Work Creating Jobs

Doug Click

Arizona Contractor & Community

Guest Editorial

Phoenix in the 1960s was a vastly smaller and more intimate community thanthe sprawling megalopolis that now engulfs the Valley of the Sun. Major shoppingvenues were few in number and often lacked the atmosphere and retail mixnecessary for long term viability. Shopping malls such as Tower Plaza, ThomasMall and the relatively high-brow, Park Central all prospered to varying degreesand yet they were simply no match for the pre-eminent shopping experience ofthe era: Chris-Town Mall. Opened in 1961, Chris-Town was the first self-enclosed, air-conditioned mallin Arizona. It offered an exceptional selection of anchor stores and smaller shops,had a superbly conceived design and layout, and its unique character and charmset it apart from the other local malls. Named for Chris Harri, a Swiss-born farmer who owned the land upon whichthe mall stands, it was constructed by Del Webb Corporation at the southeastcorner of 19th Avenue and Bethany Home Road which, at the time, was practicallythe outskirts of Phoenix. Chris-Town proved to be an eminently accessible facilityand quickly became a popular place to shop and be seen in Phoenix. The mall was much more than a mere collection of stores; it provided the citywith a genuine communal experience. Visitors would often come and spend theday shopping, socializing, watch a movie or simply enjoy the mall’s matchlessatmosphere. It’s important to remember the social and cultural context of the

The Glory Days of Chris-Town Mall

John Bueker

Top: View from the north mall facingsoutheast, 1963. Far left: 1961 logo.Across right: Chris Harri, the farmerwho sold the land for Chris-Town in1955 and for whom the mall was named.At the time Harri, 84, had 50 head ofHolsteins on 30 acres. Harri hadoperated a dairy farm at the locationsince coming to Phoenix with his fatherin 1904. Bottom: View from the northparking lot, 1961.

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time: the city’s population was still small enough that running into one of yournext-door neighbors at the mall was not an unusual experience. And so it waswith Chris-Town. Chris-Town Mall in the 1960s boasted an impressive line-up of anchors andmajor retailers including Korricks, Montgomery Ward, J.C. Penney, Woolworth,Walgreens, and S. S. Kresge. The larger stores were intertwined with smallerboutiques and local businesses like Hunter's Books, Chess King, Godber's Gifts,Bill's Records, Tony's Shoe Repair, Kerr Sporting Goods, Hanny's, and Bob Fox.Arizona Public Service even sponsored a "Gas Appliance Showcase" in the mallpromoting the virtues of gas as an alternative household energy resource.Incidentally, Tony’s Shoe Repair still remains in operation at the mall, the lonesurviving original business (if you don’t count the reincarnated J.C. Penney). Much of the elegance and enchantment of Chris-Town was inherent in theoriginal layout and design, which was organized around three themed courtyards:The Court of Fountains at the center of the mall, the Court of Flowers at the eastend near Korricks, and the Court of Birds at the west end outside MontgomeryWards. The courtyard motif expanded the scope and character of the mall, liftingit into an entirely new context for a shopping center. Chris-Town’s front entrance with its “cushion of air” opened into the Court ofFountains, a popular meeting place in front of Penney’s that was graced by anarray of attractive fountains. The expansive space of the Fountain Court wasadorned with Googie art sculptures and framed by a pair of “slipper arch”stairways that lead upstairs to mall management offices and military recruitmentcenters. For entertainment, there was the legendary organ grinder and hispassive-aggressive monkey, who performed in the Fountain Court until the early1970s. The court also hosted many special events including coin shows, rockconcerts, cow milking demonstrations, and beauty contests.

Above left: The Fountain Court was the scene ofmany special events at Chris-Town over the years,and was frequented in the 1960s and early 1970sby a very popular organ grinder and his monkey.Above middle: The Court of Flowers and theentrance to Korricks at right. Above right: TheCourt of Birds. Chico, a popular talking parrot,greeted shoppers with a cheery, "Welcome toChris-Town."

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Below: 1963 aerial view.Below right: 1962 Billboard

Images courtesy of www.chris-town.com

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At the east end of Chris-Town, in front of Korricks (later TheBroadway) was the Court of Flowers which originally featureda beautiful garden of flowers inhabited by a plaster statue ofFerdinand the Bull. The court’s popularity was enhanced withthe addition of a Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlor in the late 1960s.Also nearby was the underground tavern known as JanitorsCloset, which opened in 1967, and a small eclectic food courtwith vendors like Orange Julius and Pizza D'Amore. At the opposite end of the mall was the Court of Birds, acollection of aviary structures suspended around a four-wayconcrete bridge. It featured a remarkable array of wingedcreatures in colorful pop art cages, some of whom would speakto the delight of passing shoppers. Artist Jac T Bowen, creatorof the Flower Court’s Ferdinand statue, also produced aRoadrunner figure for the bird courtyard. An eclectic complement of surrounding businessescompleted the mall. Across Bethany Home Road to the northwas the Chris-Town Car Wash, with its extraordinary car-on-a-clothespin sign. To the south, the El Rancho Market providedgroceries and sundries, while on the southwest corner of 15thAvenue and Bethany Home Road was the first PiccadillyCafeteria in Arizona. The Chris-Town Theatre, facing 19thAvenue hosted feature films and phenomenal stage shows bylocal television stars, Wallace and Ladmo. Chris-Town in the1960s was simply a sublime realm, a shopping andentertainment utopia in an age just prior to the advent of thesoulless mega-malls. Unfortunately, the years since Chris-Town's zenith in the1960s and early 1970s have been less than kind. Two ambitiousexpansion projects nearly doubled the size of the center in themid-1970s, but the original vision of the mall was thereby lost,and the inevitable signs of age and wear were soon apparent.The 1990s witnessed the start of a sad exodus of the originalmall anchors: The Broadway closed in 1994, followed by J.C.Penney a few years later, and finally Montgomery Ward passedinto history in 2000. Competition from other west side malls, particularlyMetrocenter, was instrumental in the decline of Chris-Town.There was also a general waning of the overall socio-economicvitality of the neighborhoods surrounding the mall. Lower end

retailers Wal-Mart and Costco replaced the once proudBroadway and Penney's, while Montgomery Ward wasultimately divided into Petsmart and Ross. Grossman Company Properties, which purchased Chris-Townin 1964 for $9.6 million, inexplicably renamed the place"Phoenix Spectrum Mall" in 2001 as part of a $10 millionoverhaul. This rebranding would prove to be a remarkablyunpopular decision. In 2006, Grossman finally sold the long-heldproperty to Developers Diversified Realty, an Ohio-basedmanagement company. Developers Diversified made several changes of lastingconsequence. The entire west wing of the mall was demolishedin 2006 to make way for the return of J.C. Penney, and iconicfeatures such as the court fountain and old-fashioned lampposts were permanently removed. On the brighter side, afteryears of palpable public dissatisfaction with the “Spectrum”name, Diversified wisely restored the Chris-Town brand, sortof, re-christening the mall “Christown Spectrum” in 2007. InJanuary 2012, mall management was transferred to VestarDevelopment Company. Chris-Town’s 50th anniversary came and went last year withcuriously little fanfare. The shopping center that now remainsbears little resemblance to the fantastic Chris-Town Mall ofyore, and yet that a major shopping mall has endured in thePhoenix area for five decades without being completely razedto the ground is nothing less than miraculous. All the otherValley malls of the 1960s have long since vanished: Park Central,Tower Plaza, Thomas Mall, Maryvale Mall, Tri-City Mall, LosArcos Mall. Chris-Town alone remains. And while a mere shadow of itsformer self, the glorious old mall nevertheless retains a certainmajesty, and it has long since provided a lifetime of splendidmemories for those of us privileged enough to have known itin its very prime of life.

Bottom left: Chris-Town Theatre membership card.Bottom right: 1961 Korricks-Chris-Town store intimate apparel display)

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Two key elements I hear often thatneed improvement in our industry arecommunication and utility locating (whichbelieve it or not are related issues). Astechnology races forward, people aredoing more than one job and rely on theconvenience of emails and textingcorrespondence to get the immediatetask taken care of so they can move ontothe next job instead of scheduling face-to-face meetings or making time for phonecalls. This has caused a disconnect andinvariably, misplaced assumed intentionsand adversarial feelings where none needexist.

With the complexity of undergroundutilities increasing, not only is itimperative that anyone intending to digin Arizona contact Arizona Blue Stake(ABS) and file a utility locate ticket, it isalso the law. This can be done by calling8-1-1- from anywhere within Arizona, butthe easiest way to do this is to use E-Stake,their online ticket system, which isavailable 24/7 and has many advantagesover a phone ticket. The Arizona Corporation Commission(ACC) is the enforcement agency for the“Blue Stake Law”, which definesexcavation as “any operation in whichearth, rock or other material in the groundis moved, removed or otherwise displacedby means or use of any tools, equipmentor explosives and includes, withoutlimitation, grading, trenching, digging,ditching, drilling, auguring, boring,tunneling, scraping, cable or pipe plowingand driving”. The ACC can issue citationsfor digging without a valid Blue Staketicket which can be as high as $5,000.00for each utility present at an excavationsite. That can add up fast.

Know your locators. Who do you findit easier to work with? Someone you knowand respect or someone you think is outto get you and make your job more

difficult? Communication, collaborationand cooperation are key to any successfulproject. We are fortunate in Arizona tohave the commitment to all threebetween our agencies, utilities, locatorsand contractors. We hear that otherareas of the country do not have thebenefit of industry cooperation that wedo. We find the more we work togetherthrough communication, the less chancewe have of misunderstandings or jobdelays.

A great educational tool excavatorsalso have available is the DamagePrevention Seminars that are put on bythe ABS Damage Prevention Partnershipthroughout Arizona every year.Arizonan’s have the opportunity to hearfrom utility owners about working aroundtheir facilities, identifying hazards andpreventing damage; the ArizonaCorporation Commission aboutenforcement, AZBS educates on how tomost effectively file a ticket; and NUCAtalks about safe trenching practices. Theseminar qualifies for 2.5 personaldevelopment hours and a certificate ofattendance is distributed to all those thatattend. In 2011, 29 of these freeeducational events were presented toover 2,100 attendees across the state.While invitations are sent out, anybodycan register for any of the seminar dates,which are posted on the ABS website atwww.azbluestake.com

Do You Dig Arizona?

Before digging in Arizona remember to fileyour locating tickets, know and communicatewith your locator and prevent expensive and

costly damages to utilities.

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The National Utility Contractors ofArizona (NUCA AZ) was formed in 1975to represent the interests of Utility,Contractor, Vendor and Agencymembers who are involved inunderground utilities in our state. Wemonitor issues and serve on multipleindustry committees in an advocacycapacity. We foster communicationbetween our different member types,provide safety training, advise onregulations and keep our membersinformed of pending changes that willaffect them in the field, jobsiteregulation and in their bottom lineprofitability.Connie CorderExecutive Directorconnie@nucaaz.org602.540.1767www.nucaaz.org

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“Shop and work in comfort”was the theme of Chris-Town Shopping City.The $15 million center was built by the Del E. Webb ConstructionCompany. The complex was designed by Welton Becket & Associates,Los Angeles architects and engineers, in cooperation with Del Webbpersonnel and Friedman & Jobusch, Tucson architects and engineers.

Structural - Basic construction of the Korricks and Montgomery Wardstores were reinforced concrete columns and floors. The 360,000 squarefoot shopping area between these two stores with its enclosed mallswould be one-story with basement, with use of steel columns and beams,combined with precast pre-stressed concrete slab floors. This sectioncalled for 800 long-span parallel chord joists ranging in length from 40 to60 feet, plus 200 longer truss-type members from 70 to 100 feet. Inaddition, there were several thousand linear feet of parallel chord pickuptrusses resting on the steel column grid system. The shops, stores, andcentral mall area combined totaled 650,000 square feet.

Outside - Parking was originally planned for 600 automobiles, arrangedso that walking from any space to the mall was held to a minimum. Thefamous Monarch (blue tiles) which graced the outer shell of the complexwere created by Monarch Tile Manufacturing Inc., San Angelo, Texas.

Top: View from the northeast parking lot, shows MarcoEquipment Company’s P&H and Lorain cranes. Middle:View from interior of main floor of the MontgomeryWard store. Bottom: Chris-Town Mall billboard, circa1962-1963.

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