Arizona Game and Fish Department to renovate the archery backstops at three walking courses at the Tucson Mountain Park Archery Range as well as those at the Southeast Regional Park Archery Range

Pima County will match the funding in money or labor and will add about $8,000 more to complete the project, Leonard Ordway, Shooting Sports program manager, said. The County receives 90% of the grant funding at the start of the fiscal year (July 1), and the remaining 10% upon project completion, expected to be late March 2020.

The grant will fund 42 new backstops, also called archery butts, at Tucson Mountain Park and 30 at Southeast Regional Park. The new archery butts have a 20-year life expectancy versus the fabric-covered, straw bale design now in use, which only lasts about three years.

The Southeast Regional Park Archery Range is open Thursdays and Fridays through Sept. 30 from 7 to 11 a.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Hours change Oct. 1. The Tucson Mountain Park Archery Range is open daily from 7 a.m. to dusk.

Daily fee is $3 per archer; youth under 16 may shoot for free, but must be accompanied and supervised by an adult. An annual archery range pass is $25 per calendar year.

For more information, check the Shooting Sports website

Union on Sixth Brings 165 market rate apartments and 7,000 SF additional commercial / retail space to 4th Avenue

TUCSON, ARIZONA – GEdR Union on 6^th, LLC recently closed on an assemblage of 1.4 acres at the southwest corner of Sixth Street and Fourth Avenue in Tucson for $5.5 Million ($89.63 PSF) for land value.

The project has been in planning for several years an delayed with concerns over the changes in appearance that it would happen to uniique 4^th Avenue.

Discussions between stakeholders over this infill project has finally resulted in approval of the Historic Preservation Zones where it will sit and the Individual Parking Plan (IPP) approval.

Union on 6^th will consist of two buildings. The one along Herbert Avenue will split the development into a 40,540-square-foot East Building and a 125,065-square-foot West Building.

The plan GEdR requested was for the transit-oriented development including bicycle accommodations and public transportation is to have 209 parking spaces on the basement level and ground floor level of the western building in addition to on-street parking.  The project is to house 165 multi-family market-rate apartment units and approximately 6,900-square-feet of retail/commercial space.

Union on Sixth will bring about 300 new residents to the area, living in the 165 market rate apartments.  GEdR is hoping to market the apartments to young professionals, empty nesters and graduate students looking to live around 4th Avenue.  The final plan shows that 65 percent of the units will be studio, one-bedroom or two-bedroom units with the other 58 units are 3-bedrooms.

In regards to the multiple retail/commercial units, 6,900-square-feet worth, The 4th Avenue Merchants Association has been working with GEdR to make sure that only local tenants will occupy these ground floor units.

One point of misconception concerning this project from the beginning seems to have been the height of the project.  It has always been presented as “The 7-story development replacing The Flycatcher on 4th Avenue.”  In reality, the portion of the building fronting 4th Avenue will be 2 and 3 stories in height.  While the eastern building does eventually step up to 5 stories, it is set back from 4th Avenue and 6th Street by at least 50 feet.  Building #1, the western building, does sit at 7 stories, although it steps down to 2 stories (25 feet) where it fronts 6th Street and is separated from 4th Avenue by more than 200 feet and Herbert Avenue.

Tony Reed with Long Realty in Tucson represented the buyer, GEdR Union on 6^th, LLC. Phil Lipman with Bright Properties of Tucson represented the sellers, Four Emeralds / Flycatcher at 340 East 6^th Street and Honeybadger Happenings, LLC and Tigre Properties I, LLC at 422 and 424 North 5^th Avenue and 316 East 6^th Street.

For more information, Reed should be reached at 520.918.5189 and Lipman can be contacted at 520.906.7215.

PHOENIX, ARIZONA – The sale of three office buildings and one  retail property totaling $1.9 million highlight transactions recently closed by NAI Horizon professionals in Phoenix.

Sale Transactions:
Thomas Bean, CCIM, negotiated the investment sale of an office building, representing the seller, JJELO, LLC, for $875,000. The property is located at 2410 E. Osborn Rd., Phoenix, AZ. The buyer was Brooks Realty Investments, LLC.

John Filli negotiated the sale of an office building, representing the seller, The Jaime M. & Carol A. Tiglas Family Trust, for $500,000. The property is located at 809 W. Maryland Ave., Phoenix, AZ. The buyer was Allemar Property, LLC.

Sharon Reeves negotiated the sale of a retail building, representing the seller, Circle K Stores, Inc., for $350,000. The property is located at 9714 N. 7^th St., Phoenix, AZ. The buyer, 7 Mountain View, LLC, was represented by Tom Semanick with Commercial Properties, Inc.

Matt Harper, CCIM, negotiated the sale of an office building, representing the seller, The Larry A. Kamka & Ellena M. Kamka Revocable Living Trust, for $220,000. The property is located at 2440 W. Augusta Rd., Phoenix, AZ. The buyer is Quyen T. Pham Revocable Trust.