State and City Officials Join Company Executives at Ribbon-Cutting Celebration at ADP’s Sales Facility

TUCSON, Arizona — ADP® is adding 250 positions to its Tucson workforce, bringing to 400 the number of ADP associates in Tucson and to nearly 2,000 the number of ADP associates who will be working in Arizona.

ADP has leased 49,543-square-feet on two floors of the company’s signature facility at 5451 East Williams Blvd. in Tucson. That sold at the end of the year along with 5431 E Williams Blvd for $13.85 million ($144 PSF) to an affiliate of the Decurion Corporation based in Los Angeles, California, parent company to Pacific Service Company.

The seller was WCCP Williams Tech, LLC of Torrance, California (Phil Skillings, member) that acquired the two properties in September 2016.

At a news conference during a ribbon-cutting ceremony, ADP CEO Carlos Rodriguez praised the company’s partnership with state and city officials to create the kind of environment conducive to ADP’s ongoing growth.

“I’m quite pleased with the collaboration between the State of Arizona, the City of Tucson and ADP that has helped us create these new jobs in Tucson and 1,500 additional new jobs in Tempe,” said Rodriguez. “ADP is all about helping our clients succeed, and I’m delighted that the people of Arizona will be playing key roles in helping us do that.”

Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild and Sandra Watson, president and CEO of the Arizona Commerce Authority, joined company executives and associates during a ribbon-cutting celebration in Tucson this past week

“I’m delighted that ADP has chosen to increase its presence in Tucson, a city with a talented workforce that is focused on helping companies like ADP succeed in meeting the needs of their clients,” said Mayor Rothschild.

Watson echoed those remarks.

“ADP’s impressive growth in our state emphasizes Arizona’s competitiveness in meeting the needs of business and providing jobs for our citizens,” said Watson. “Under Governor Ducey’s leadership, the Arizona Commerce Authority and our partners are proud to support ADP’s continued success in both Tucson and Tempe.”

The Tucson facility is a sales location, where associates help clients and prospects find the right payroll, HR and human capital management solutions for their business needs.

Among the talent ADP is seeking to attract to its Tucson facility: Associates who reflect the diversity inherent in the clients ADP serves; graduates of the University of Arizona, especially those from the Eller School of Business, and veterans and military spouses given the presence of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, among others.

“We need to match the diversity in the marketplace with diverse sales talent and expertise, and Tucson is rich in highly educated, diverse talent,” Rodriguez said. The company also said it has been impressed with graduates it has met from the Eller School of Business and the University of Arizona.

ADP also has a valued team of more than 1,000 veterans who work at the company.

“We’ve learned through experience that veterans have demonstrated strong leadership skills, strong resiliency, and a wonderful ability to work as team players to get things done,” Rodriguez said. “Those are exactly the kinds of skills we need.”

Veterans at ADP have come from all branches of the military and served in every major conflict since Vietnam. The company currently employs 56,700 associates globally.

ADP is a comprehensive global provider of cloud-based human capital management solutions that helps companies build better workforces by uniting HR, payroll, talent, time, tax and benefits administration. The company is a leader in business outsourcing services, analytics, and compliance expertise. ADP serves more than 640,000 clients of all types and sizes in 111 countries around the world, and pays one in six workers in the United States (26 million people) and 13 million wage-earners elsewhere.

People interested in applying to work at ADP in Tucson can visit jobs.ADP.com.

ADP has long been recognized as a valued employer. Recent accolades have included:

• One of the “100 Best Companies for Working Mothers” as recognized by Working Mother® magazine.
• One of the “50 Best Companies for Diversity” as recognized by Black Enterprise® magazine in partnership with the Executive Leadership Council.
• One of the “50 Best Companies to Sell For” as recognized by Selling Power® magazine.
• One of the “Best Places to Work in IT” as recognized by Computerworld® magazine.

TUCSON, Arizona – The Texas-based company Escalante Golf recently acquired its second Arizona property, The Gallery Golf Club for $7.1 million. The 36-hole Gallery has hosted a number of high profile events including the Tucson Open, the Accenture World Match Play Championship, and numerous amateur and college events. Located in Marana Arizona, the club has two championship golf courses, restaurant and one of the best sports clubs in Arizona.

Located in Dove Mountain, Escalante acquired The Golf Club at Dove Mountain, formerly The Ritz Carlton Golf Club with 27-holes, in 2012 from Tucson-based Cottonwood Properties.

Built on more than 25 years of operational experience, the Escalante Golf portfolio includes luxury golf properties from Florida to California. Other courses owned and managed by Esclante include: Sonoma Golf Club in California; The Raven Golf Club at Three Peaks and Pine Creek Golf Club in Colorado; The Club at Grand Haven, Tarpon Cove Yacht and Racquet Club, Black Diamond Ranch in Florida; Country Club of the North in Ohio; Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in Oregon; Blackhorse Golf Club, Golf Club of Houston, Black Hawk Country Club, and Shadow Hawk Golf Club in Texas.

Esclante manages its own golf clubs. The seller, Tortolita Golf Club LLC, continues to own the Gallery’s custom home sites surrounding the Golf Club. Currently there are 25 custom lots for sale on the north course ready to build and an additional 20-25 lots to be developed.  On the south course, A.F. Sterling with 91 lots and Toll Brothers with 72 lots for a total of 163 homesites under development.  There are an additional uncommitted 106 platted lots on the south course.

Tucson housing predictors are looking quite good. In fact, Realtor.com forecasts Tucson to be one of the top 10 leading real estate markets in the country for 2017. This combined with the fact that there won’t be more golf course home lots developed, once these are gone, that’s it. There may be many things to love about a golf course property: all that nicely trimmed grass, the hilarious sight of hackers butchering the game, the short walk to the clubhouse and first tee.

But, there are also more financial reasons, golf course properties have been much more immune to downturns. Lot values on golf courses have a 40 percent premium over other lots in the neighborhood, according to the Longitudes Group. Even when a market is really getting hammered, a golf home out-performs a non-golf home almost every time.

It isn’t that the golf course home is completely immune to market trends. It’s just that it holds its value more than other homes.

Vince Smedes is the Broker / Manager for Gallery Properties and handles homes and homesites around the Gallery Golf Club. Smedes can be reached for more information on these custom home sites at 520.360.4000.

To learn more, see RED Comp #4348.

TUCSON, Arizona — An affiliate of Tucson Land and Cattle Co. (Jim Campbell, manager) bought 59-acres at La Canada & Overton in Northwest submarket Tucson in Pima County for this new subdivision, Overton Reserve.

The developer plans to develop 106 lots: the Northern 39-acres with 83 lots and a 2.1 RAC, and the Southern 19.6-acres with 23 lots and 1.2 RAC all to be Overton Reserve. The property commanded a sale price of $2.5 million ($23,585 per lot) platted. Property was rezoned while in escrow.

Developer believes it can begin to break ground in Q2 2017.

The seller, GST LLC (Charles Jackson, manager) was represented by Ben Becker and Adam Becker with CBRE in Tucson.

For more information, the Becker Team should be reached at 520.323.5100.

To learn more, see RED Comp #4400.

Also in the Northwest Tucson submarket, Lennar Homes purchased 25-lots from Miramonte Homes in Boulder Bridge Pass at Dove Mountain in Marana. The 25 finished lots average 10,022-square-feet and sold for $2.7 million ($108,000 per lot).

Boulder Bridge Pass is at the northwest corner of Dove Mountain Boulevard and Boulder Bridge Pass. The remaining lots in this 88 lot subdivision on about 44.5 acres continue to be built by Miramonte.

To learn more, see RED Comp #4449.

DR Horton acquired 60 lots at Vista Montana Estates in Southeast Tucson from a New York investor, LG Realty LLC. Vista Montana Estates was originally platted for manufactured homes with a total of 139 lots in this Phase Two and are 50’x90’ average.

These final lots commanded a sale price of $1.98 million ($33,000 per lot) located off I-10 and Wilmot Road in Tucson.

DR Horton joins other builders Lennar and TJ Bednar at Vista Montana with these remaining 60 lots.

Dan Feig and Aaron Mendenhall with Chapman Lindsey Commercial Real Estate Services in Tucson represented the seller in the transaction.

For more information, Feig and Mendenhall should be contacted at 520.747.4000.

To learn more, see RED Comp #4405.