Designs for the first buildings expected to populate the major research center planned at the former Los Arcos Mall site will be up for public scrutiny in the coming weeks.

The Scottsdale Waterfront project makes Brad Allenby see green.

The Scottsdale Waterfront project makes Brad Allenby see green.

Healing the nation’s sick, injured and infirmed has grown into an industry that provides 11 million jobs for Americans. Moreover, the U.S. Department of Labor projects that jobs in healthcare will increase 26 percent by 2008, which translates into 2.8 million new jobs.

Worldwide semiconductor sales were up 47 percent in January, good news for the East Valley because semiconductor manufacturing makes up one of the largest segments of the local economy.

The semiconductor industry is becoming a more mature business, and its long-term growth prospects are slowing, the chief executive of Freescale Semiconductor said.

May 19, 2004

NEW YORK - The American fashion industry says it wants models to be healthy, not anorexic, bulimic or chain-smokers. And to help them achieve that, the Council of Fashion Designers of America has released a list of recommendations as part of a new health initiative.

NEW YORK - Fashion designer Liz Claiborne, whose styles became a cornerstone of career women's wardrobes in the 1970s and 1980s, has died, the company she founded said Wednesday. She was 78.

A Vermont-based semiconductor design company is expanding to the East Valley and hopes to be employing hundreds of circuit-design engineers within a few years.

A Vermont-based semiconductor design company is expanding to the East Valley and hopes to be employing hundreds of circuit-design engineers within a few years.

LOS ANGELES - Anand Jon Alexander appeared to be a fashion designer on the brink of big things.

Armed with scissors, a set amount of material and a two-hour time limit, Philip Rice, like any designer, felt the pressure to make it work.

A California-based investor is planning a 35-acre industrial park north of Williams Gateway Airport in east Mesa.

April 11, 2005

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is designating five new national monuments, using executive authority to protect historic or ecologically significant sites — including one in Delaware sought by Vice President Joe Biden.

In the business world, "goodwill" is the valued asset of having an established reputation. Building that goodwill has become a daily struggle in the East Valley for a nonprofit organization founded to build another type of goodwill, a company representative says.

NEW YORK - Christa Walker’s new home was designed by an architect, made of environmentally friendly materials, and will arrive at the lot in just a few pieces — straight from the factory that built it.

Led by north Tempe and the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport area, the Valley’s industrial real estate market experienced a dramatic recovery this year after nearly tanking last year.

The economy may be slowing, but business at thrift shops, resale and consignment stores in the Valley, state and nation is booming.

Construction is booming in the East Valley, and those in the industry say success is a double-edged sword.

A huge increase expected in commercial trucking over the next two decades threatens to jam up more highways and cause disruptions in the supply chains that U.S. businesses rely on to send goods to customers on time, several national studies suggest.