SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. No industry has escaped the wrath of the COVID-19 pandemic, including construction. While there have been many challenges and changes, Sigma Contracting Inc. has seen many positives as well.

Company officials said all of its existing projects continued without interruption, yet several new projects did not start when expected. As the fourth quarter came into play various new projects started despite circumstances.

“It goes without saying that 2020 will go down as an unusual year – good for some, bad for others,” said Sigma President Dan Hinkson. “We survived, and our employees stayed united. We’re proud that our 37-year-old culture and bonding solidified. While we experienced COVID issues both at the office and at jobsites, everyone recovered and all are healthy.

Sigma Contracting projects of note in 2020:

• Broth & Bao Asian restaurant TI, Scottsdale;
• H-Mart Asian grocery store TI, Mesa;
• Mountainside Fitness Shea ground up, Phoenix;
• Papago Plaza site work, Scottsdale;
• PetSmart corporate office renovations, Phoenix;
• Phoenix Convention Center restaurant renovations, Phoenix;
• Power and Hampton roads retail site work, Mesa;
• Sanitas Medical Center TIs, two locations in Texas;
• Swift Transportation additions and renovations, Phoenix;
• W Hotel renovations, Scottsdale.

“COVID has been an ongoing mystery to almost the entire world, and no one truly understands this in terms of the ultimate magnitude of its impact to families and businesses,” Hinkson said. “There have been many adjustments made and new protocols and processes put in place to address it and ensure the safety and well-being of our people as well as those around us.

“We look to 2021 to hopefully allow the world to catch its breath and move life forward, even if with new rules and requirements,” Hinkson added.

Three-story, 80,000 SF complex will be a destination center for professional athletes

Scottsdale, Arizona  – Alter (www.altergroup.com), one of the nation’s leading commercial real estate developers, announces a $54 million, three-story, 80,000-square-foot comprehensive sports medicine center at its Riverwalk at Taking Stick (https://www.riverwalktalkingstick.com/) mixed-use development, located along the Loop 101 at Indian Bend Road in Scottsdale.

“We are pleased to welcome Banner Health to the Riverwalk development,” said Richard M. Gatto, executive vice president with Alter. “When completed, the project will be a destination center for athletes that provides key services dedicated to sports medicine in one location, making it unlike any other in the region.” Preliminary design is underway, with a planned opening in the fourth quarter of 2022.

Scott Nordlund, Banner’s chief strategy and growth officer, said, “This project is a great example of Banner’s mission to make health care easier so life can be better.  We are proud to invest in the community and to be able to provide comprehensive sports medicine services under one roof to serve all athletes.” The development is in strategic alignment with Banner’s existing partnership with several prominent local athletic teams, including Arizona Diamondbacks, Phoenix Suns, Phoenix Mercury and University of Arizona.

Banner Health was represented by Pat Williams, managing director of Jones Lang LaSalle; Kurt Rosene, principal of NOVO Development, represented Alter.

Riverwalk at Talking Stick is one of the country’s largest developments on Native American land, Riverwalk at Talking Stick will yield an estimated 1,500,000-square-feet of corporate office and retail space, and create nearly 15,000 new jobs. Riverwalk’s blue-chip tenants include GlobalTranz (www.globaltranz.com) and ICE (www.inceenterprise.com). Riverwalk is located on prime land owned by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, which is home to the Pima and Maricopa tribes, both descendants of the Hohokam. One of Riverwalk’s signature facilities is Rtech, Alter’s new prototype office space features 15’ tall ceilings, 7:1,000 parking, a spacious hotel-style lobby with a conjoined Starbucks coffee bar, a medical clinic and interactive seating areas.

TUCSON, ARIZONA – In a time when healthcare has come front and center with a global pandemic, Banner-University Medical Group leased 8,000-square-feet at Rita Ranch Plaza, 8270 – 8290 S Houghton Road in Tucson, located on the southwest corner of Rita and Houghton Roads from KMC III, LLC.  The space was formerly used for the Carondelet Medical Mall.

This news comes after Rincon Neighborhood Hospital, a subsidiary of TMC HealthCare, announced at new 60-bedhospital to be built at the TMC Rincon Health Campus, located at the intersection of Drexel and Houghton roads. It is scheduled to open in 2023 according to a news release from TMC.

Banner – University Medical Center Tucson and Banner – University Medical Center South are part of Banner – University Medicine, a premier academic medical network. These institutions are academic medical centers for the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson. Included on the two campuses are Diamond Children’s Medical Center and many specialty clinics. The two academic medical centers are part of Arizona-based Banner Health, one of the largest nonprofit health care systems in the country.

Although the opening of new clinics had slowed this year, Banner – University Medicine opened three new primary care offices last year in the area. One in Marana and two more in the Tucson area.

“We constantly hear from the community about how difficult  it is to find a primary care provider in Tucson, so we are making access to convenient primary care a priority this year,” said Chad Whelan, MD, chief executive officer of Banner – University Medicine in Tucson said in a press statement.

The Banner – University Medicine Cortaro Primary Care office at 8020 N. Cortaro Road, Suite 150, opened to patients in April, 2019.

Banner – University Medicine then opened a second primary care office at 6860 E. Sunrise Drive.

A third primary care office opened in June or July, 2019 at 7355 S. Houghton Road.

The landlord was represented by Andrew Sternberg and Gordon Wagner of NAI Horizon and the tenant was represented by Vicki Robinson of JLL in Phoenix.

For more information Sternberg can be reached at 520 729 1694 and Wagner should be contacted at 520 398 5130.