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Local First, Glendale team to guide businesses during …

11/7/2023
Construction is coming fairly soon for Glendale’s Downtown Campus Reinvestment Project and the city teamed up with small business leaders to assist downtown merchants. Local First Arizona …

Gilbert partners with Local First Arizona to certify …

10/10/2023
The town of Gilbert is teaming up with Local First Arizona to promote sustainability efforts among Gilbert-based businesses and nonprofits. This collaboration aims to encourage these …

Phoenix Devour Culinary Classic tickets on sale Oct. …

10/8/2023
Local First Arizona’s 15th annual Devour Culinary Classic, the popular tasting event, will bring back its eclectic fare in February.

Arizona rural policy forum comes to Miami

5/30/2023
Join Local First Arizona and hundreds of changemakers for the 16th annual Arizona Rural Policy Forum, held this year at Bullion Plaza in Miami. The conference attracts nearly 300 …

Fate of development near Tolmachoff Farms in Glendale …

4/25/2023
The latest battle between shrinking Maricopa County farmland versus business opportunity was put on pause Tuesday night in Glendale.

Valley restaurants hope for home run from spring …

2/23/2023
It’s that time of year where temperatures start to heat up while other parts of the country stay cold. That’s one of the special reasons why Arizona is one of only two states that host Major League Baseball’s spring training season. Like every season, there is an expectation that the games will bring in thousands of fans into the metro Phoenix stadiums.

Inflation, supply-chain issues are impacting Valley …

11/26/2022
As a small business owner, Valene Hatathlie has been through a lot during the past four years. Hatathlie, owner of Val’s Frybread, has faced the pandemic and finding creative business solutions to surviving when her main source of business — public events — were closed. This year, it’s been the cost of her ingredients from flour to oil rising that has posed the biggest hardship.

Local First Arizona bringing business mixer to Arizona

10/4/2022
Local First Arizona is sponsoring a Glendale business mixer this month.

Blue Sky Organic Farms leases 40 acres to replace land …

6/26/2021
For more than 25 years, David Vose, his partner, Sara Dolan, and their crews at Blue Sky Organic Farms have enjoyed unencumbered views of the Estrella Mountains in the distance as they worked, but that won’t be the case much longer.

Noland: Why Local First Arizona launched Pipeline AZ

6/17/2021
One of the biggest challenges for Pinal County is the majority of people in the workforce are commuting to Maricopa county to work. When this happens, Arizona’s tax dollars, your local …

Local First Arizona partners with Pipeline AZ to …

5/28/2021
Local First Arizona and Pipeline AZ are pooling their resources to optimize how rural job seekers and businesses in Pinal County connect in an ever-evolving, competitive and fast-paced job …

Land in Goodyear leased to Duncan Family Farms, …

3/24/2021
Much to the chagrin of some nearby residents, 1,060 acres of state-owned land leased to Duncan Family Farms in Goodyear may soon be home to office and industrial buildings, including a Samsung semiconductor manufacturing plant.