AZCentral reports that progress was halted on the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office construction site at Sixth Ave. and Jackson Street in Phoenix after a bomb threat on May 1st. More than 70 construction workers were sent home after graffitti was found saying, “Bomb inside…No Work Today…Happy May Day…Stop building prisons for other workers.” A search of the building found a suspicious lunch box that turned out to be a lunch box. To sandblast the graffitti off the building will cost $10,000.
Arizona sunshine is powering 32,000 San Diego homes – or will be shortly – when the Arlington Valley Solar Energy II project is completed this year. The $500 million facility will be one of the ten largest in the world when the switch goes “on” and San Diego Gas and Electric starts buying the juice. Arizona ranks second in the nation of installed solar facilities. (AZCentral Premium content).
Work on the I-19 Interchange at Ajo Way has been moved up to a 2015 construction project. ADOT wanted to delay the interchange until 2018, but Tucson business leaders turning out at the April State Transportation Board meeting resulted in pushing the $86 million project up from 2018 to 2015. The second phase of the project that includes a new bridge over the Santa Cruz River will stay in the 2018 plan.