Life Coach in Catalina Foothills, AZ

PHOENIX Jan. 26, 2023 – JLL Capital Markets announced today that it has closed the $31.1 million sale of River Center, a 107,508-square-foot, Whole Foods-anchored, neighborhood retail center located in Tucson, Arizona.

JLL represented the seller, First Washington Realty, and a private investor acquired the asset.

The Class A property is 100-percent-leased to a tenant line-up consisting of both national and local tenants. River Center is anchored by Whole Foods, Petco, and Walgreens (NAP), and includes other notable tenants Tenet Healthcare, Childtime Childcare and Orange Theory Fitness.

Located at 5555-5675 East River Rd., River Center is well-situated in the highly desirable and land-constrained Catalina Foothills submarket. The high traffic counts, ideal consumer profile and national demand in the area help the neighborhood shopping center stand out amongst its competition.

The JLL Retail Capital Markets Investment Sales and Advisory team that represented the seller was led by Managing Director Patrick Dempsey along with Managing Director Geoff Tranchina and Associate Patrick Anthon.

“Investors remain interested in top performing grocery anchored shopping centers in good locations,” said Dempsey. “Whole Foods offers investors an A Credit with excellent sales performance.”

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First Washington Realty (FWR) is a fully integrated, national real estate investment and management firm that specializes in the ownership of convenience, necessity, and experience-oriented retail real estate.

FWR currently owns nearly 150 shopping centers with a value of over $9.3 billion located in 22 states and the District of Columbia. Their shopping center real estate portfolio contains nearly 22.6 million square feet with approximately 4,000 tenants.

DIVISION II: IRONWOOD WINS ON LAST BOUT

Canyon View and Ironwood spent the last two days separated by five or less points with Canyon View holding on for most of Saturday until Markell Rivera - Cain (48-0) 48-0 defeated Asher Villalpando (25-6) in the 190-piund division (Fall 1:13) to flip the final results. Canyon View took second place last year and Ironwood came in third and that was the only top three finishes for either program until this winter. It was Rivera – Cain’s third state championship (2021, 2022, 2023)

TEAM TOP 20 RESULTS

1 Ironwood 191

2 Canyon View 189.5

3 Kofa 131

4 Williams Field 103

5 Horizon 100

6 Mountain View Marana 89

7 Flowing Wells 86

8 Campo Verde 80

9 Canyon Del Oro 69

10 Centennial 60

11 Desert Mountain 53

12 Lake Havasu 52

13 Youngker 49

14 Raymond Kellis 45

15 Willow Canyon 42

16 Ironwood Ridge 41

17 Mountain Pointe 37

17 Thunderbird 37

19 Bradshaw Mountain 35

20 Arcadia 32

Canyon View (Andy Morales/AZPreps365)

D2-106

1st Place Match

Daniel Alire (Kofa) 47-7, So. over Jayden Smith (Mountain View Marana) 36-6, Jr. (Dec 5-4)

3rd Place Match

Alexander Davidson (Horizon) 31-10, Sr. over Michael Corrow (Flowing Wells) 35-9, Jr. (Dec 11-4)

5th Place Match

Kolton Frye (Canyon View) 18-11, So. over Kyzer Tellez (Pueblo) 36-19, Sr. (MD 8-0)

D2-113

1st Place Match

Gabriel Ramirez (Canyon View) 32-3, So. over Damian Moreno (Kofa) 44-5, Sr. (Dec 7-5)

3rd Place Match

Anthony Lopez (Ironwood) 42-7, Fr. over Seferino De la rosa (Flowing Wells) 29-7, Fr. (Fall 4:45)

5th Place Match

Ethan Madson (Horizon) 36-10, Sr. over Ryland Foushee (Williams Field) 46-11, Sr. (MD 8-0)

D2-120

1st Place Match

Vonn Fenn (Thunderbird) 47-2, Sr. over Giovanni Martinez Chavez (Canyon View) 29-6, Jr. (SV-1 4-2)

3rd Place Match

Quinton McMullen (Youngker HS) 40-7, Jr. over Jose Gael Moreno (Kofa) 40-13, So. (Fall 1:18)

5th Place Match

Justin Beauvias (Ironwood) 11-5, Fr. over Izayah Magdaleno (Williams Field) 45-18, So. (MD 8-0)

D2-126

1st Place Match

Julian Macias (Ironwood) 26-3, Fr. over Andrew Ramirez (Canyon View) 28-8, Sr. (Dec 4-2)

3rd Place Match

Logan Lopez (Horizon) 39-6, Sr. over Jaden Buchanan (Mountain View Marana) 41-10, Sr. (Dec 5-0)

5th Place Match

Samuel Kisting (Williams Field) 51-10, Jr. over Enzo Spina (Ironwood Ridge) 33-5, Sr. (DQ)

D2-132

1st Place Match

Daniel Miranda (Mountain View Marana) 45-2, Sr. over Giosue Hickman (Canyon View) 39-5, Jr. (Dec 5-0)

3rd Place Match

Mitchell Jones (Campo Verde) 30-9, Sr. over Ian Grubbs (Cactus Shadows) 44-8, Jr. (Dec 3-0)

5th Place Match

Victor Padilla (Glendale) 23-10, Jr. over Marcus Burca (Youngker) 39-9, So. (Dec 12-11)

D2-138

1st Place Match

Skyer Hickman (Canyon View) 37-3, Sr. over Gunnar LeGrand (Lake Havasu) 39-3, Sr. (MD 14-6)

3rd Place Match

Jordan Beauvais (Ironwood) 42-9, Jr. over Jahari McQuiller (Westview) 42-8, So. (Dec 5-4)

5th Place Match

Jesse Cooper (Centennial) 40-12, Jr. over Diego Villafana (Kofa) 39-16, So. (Inj. 0:00)

D2-144

1st Place Match

Colby Ryan (Raymond Kellis) 57-2, Sr. over Ruben `Xavier` Lerma (Ironwood) 18-7, Jr. (MD 14-1)

3rd Place Match

Matthew Hernandez (Horizon) 40-8, Jr. over TrayVon Frazier (Buckeye) 34-11, Sr. (Dec 6-5)

5th Place Match

Robert Minden (Lake Havasu) 45-7, Jr. over Jose Rodriguez (Kofa) 28-14, Jr. (SV-1 4-2)

D2-150

1st Place Match

Pablo Macias (Ironwood) 46-4, Jr. over Arturo Anaya (Kofa) 49-6, Sr. (Dec 4-2)

3rd Place Match

Kellen St.Louis (Williams Field) 50-9, Sr. over Jozeph Smith (Pueblo) 28-8, Fr. (Fall 0:57)

5th Place Match

Mateo Rodriguez (Arcadia) 25-10, Sr. over Otto Hagele (Ironwood Ridge) 11-5, Sr. (Dec 11-5)

D2-157

1st Place Match

Trent Wikel (Desert Mountain) 49-2, Sr. over Charles Croci (Canyon del Oro) 47-5, Sr. (Fall 0:42)

3rd Place Match

Dominik Fimbres (Canyon View) 36-7, Sr. over Aaron Manone (Ironwood) 12-5, Jr. (Dec 5-2)

5th Place Match

Kai Langlais (Ironwood Ridge) 36-13, Sr. over Asher King-Orlando (Bradshaw Mountain) 39-7, Sr. (DQ)

D2-165

1st Place Match

Marlin Whyte (Mountain Pointe) 34-4, Sr. over Aiden Larsen (Horizon) 34-9, Sr. (Fall 5:20)

3rd Place Match

Daniel McCarthy (Ironwood) 40-8, Sr. over Adrian Parra (Flowing Wells) 47-7, Sr. (Dec 3-0)

5th Place Match

Antonio Calles (Centennial) 38-12, Sr. over Abram Sanchez (Verrado) 38-10, Sr. (Fall 2:51)

D2-175

1st Place Match

RJ Robinson (Desert Mountain) 40-5, So. over Andrew Manore (Willow Canyon) 51-6, Sr. (Dec 5-4)

3rd Place Match

Sir Friday (Canyon View) 35-11, Jr. over Enrique Galvez (Campo Verde) 22-5, Jr. (Dec 9-2)

5th Place Match

Nathaniel Angle (Buena) 32-9, Jr. over Tyler Potts (Sunrise Mountain) 38-9, Sr. (Fall 0:58)

D2-190

1st Place Match

Markell Rivera - Cain (Ironwood) 48-0, Sr. over Asher Villalpando (Canyon View) 25-6, Jr. (Fall 1:13)

3rd Place Match

Loren Phillips (Kofa) 40-11, Jr. over Max Tenery (Catalina Foothills) 20-9, Sr. (Dec 4-0)

5th Place Match

Tristan Bacon (Kellis) 42-14, So. over Cole Goodman (Williams Field) 41-15, Sr. (Fall 4:20)

D2-215

1st Place Match

Kayden Luke (Canyon del Oro) 51-0, Jr. over James DuComb (Arcadia) 32-7, Sr. (Fall 5:15)

3rd Place Match

Raymond Aragon (Flowing Wells) 28-11, Sr. over Dominic Jewell (Willow Canyon) 44-11, Sr. (Fall 2:05)

5th Place Match

Gabriel Ricketts (Bradshaw Mountain) 13-5, Jr. over Joshua Jacobs (Williams Field) 42-15, Jr. (Fall 0:29)

D2-285

1st Place Match

Majel Morones (Campo Verde) 20-0, Sr. over Jacob Acedo (Mountain View Marana) 53-2, Jr. (Dec 8-4)

3rd Place Match

Toafiaoalii Fruean (Buena) 27-3, Sr. over Xander Flowers (Lake Havasu) 31-6, Sr. (Dec 4-1)

5th Place Match

Cristian Haro-Torres (Centennial) 38-10, Jr. over Victor Osborn (Washington) 20-8, Sr. (Fall 4:40)

— Andy Morales (@AZPreps365Andy) February 18, 2023

The following is the opinion and analysis of the writer:

My wife, Diana, and I have been residents of the Catalina Foothills School District (“CFSD”) for 32 years. We raised our children here. We are thankful for the public education CFSD provided them, and want to be sure other families are afforded the same opportunity. In turn, after recently coming to learn three of five seats on the CFSD governing board are up for election this year, and three of the candidates running for them are anti-public education, I felt compelled to speak out. This piece is my call to action.

We enrolled our first child as a first grader in CFSD in 1989. His younger sisters joined him two and five years later. They each went on to graduate from Catalina Foothills High School in 2003, 2004 and 2008. After graduation they attended college, found meaningful occupations, are happily married and raising children of their own. We find great pride in the people they have become and attribute their good fortune, in significant part, to the quality of the experience they had while students in CFSD.

This summer we were invited to a 40th wedding anniversary party. There, we encountered friends we had not seen in many years, but first met in the 1990s when our youngest daughter attended Manzanita Elementary. Back then we were brought together as families by virtue of a girls first-grade soccer team proudly named “The Rockets,” Brownie troop “811,” and meaningful volunteer activities afforded students’ parents. And it was not our mere encounter with these people we found most pleasing, but rather the sincere gratitude we shared with one another for the experience our children had while a part of the CFSD school system and we were finding our way as parents.

Our enthusiasm and support are not peculiar to our generation. Our oldest daughter and her husband elected to relocate to Tucson in 2018 to start their family, and purchased a home in CFSD for the specific purpose of educating their kids here when the time comes. Several of their friends and peers have done the same.

CFSD caters to all comers, stresses inclusion, and produces well-educated, diverse, ambitious graduates. CFSD’s stability and success is a function of its long-standing leadership provided by Dr. Mary Kamerzell; a board, administrative staff and faculty who are guided by common sense and best practices, and truly responsive to the needs of students and their parents; a rigorous curriculum by any standard; competitive athletics programs; meaningful volunteer activities; and engaged parents.

Three of this year’s board candidates, Grace Jasin, William Morgan and Bart Pemberton, are each endorsed by “Purple for Parents,” which opposes any legislative increase in per-pupil funding in Arizona public schools, and urges the expansion of the ESA voucher program, which allows parents to opt their children out of public schools and, in turn, receive a portion of their public funding for use as private school tuition, online education or the like. Both positions are designed to ultimately cripple public education in Arizona.

Candidates Amy Bhola and Amy Krauss are two-term CFSD board incumbents.

They and Gina Mehmert have been actively involved as parents and volunteers in CFSD for over 10 years. They know the schools, the staffs, the students and their parents, and what actually needs to be done to address real issues which include pandemic learning loss.

Please take the time to vote in the upcoming election, be sure to vote for Bhola, Krauss and Mehmert, and encourage your neighbors to do so as well. Their plan is to do what is necessary to preserve the integrity and successful mission of CFSD, not insidiously dismantle it. A vote for these candidates will ensure that hundreds of other families will have the opportunity to enjoy and gain from the same experience our family did.

David Hill is a practicing lawyer in Tucson. His wife Diana has a Phd in early education from UA and is employed in that field.

CATALINA FOOTHILLS, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - After decades of being in the danger zone, Pima County officials are now looking into buying out some high-priced homes in flood-prone areas.

This area mainly impacts residents in the Catalina Foothills along the Finger Rock Wash. In early August, flooding was so bad, it forced evacuations. Some residents, still haven’t been able to come back to their homes.

Joe Broschak is doing everything he can to prepare for the next big storm.

“You wake up and it’s a constant reminder. You are living in fear of the next big rainstorm that’s going to bring four-five feet of water down finger rock wash,” he said.

He’s built walls and laid down sandbags, hoping that his preparation pays off when the next big rainstorm hits.

He noted that last year he was out of his home for seven weeks due to flooding from the storms.

Now, the Pima County Flood Control District is looking to take action. Joseph Cuffari with the city says they are considering buying several properties in the area.

“These homes in this area a lot of these homes are impacted already by a locally mapped flood plane. So, the Bighorn fire may have contributed and may have exacerbated those flows,” Cuffari said.

He said this will help create more floodplain space along the wash, and less trouble for homeowners.

He said his team already has a plan after an offer is made saying: “We make an offer to buy the home, and if it’s successful, if the flood control district does buy it we actually demolish that home and remove that threat from future flooding scenarios.”

A lot of the homes you see in the neighborhood impacted by the wash were built in the 1960s. Cuffari added that most aren’t in compliance with today’s standards, such as flood and foundation requirements.

He said they do have a budget to work with, but it is limited. He said they have “about a million dollars allocated a year” from the board of supervisors.

He also added, “being in the Catalina Foothills those are higher valued homes.”

As of Wednesday, two homeowners have already submitted applications for the program.

You can read more about the program and what it offers here.

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TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - It was one of the worst storms this monsoon. Sunday night, heavy rainfall swept through the Catalina Foothills neighborhood. A flash flood displaced more than a dozen people and left devastation in its wake.

On Monday, crews removed debris from Havasu Road, near Columbus Boulevard, and leveled the street.

The typically quiet community became a noisy construction zone, as homeowners dug through mud-caked rooms and tried to salvage precious items.

“She actually was invited to the White House by President Eisenhower,” said Enid Whittaker, pointing to a vintage Sports Illustrated magazine cover.

Whittaker’s home office is full of hundreds of books that were once owned by Bonnie Prudden. The fitness pioneer, hall of famer and published author lived with Whittaker until she passed away in 2011.

“I was her managing director,” said Whittaker. “We worked together for over 40 years. I was kind of the person who organized everything so she could do what she needed to do.”

Now, shelves are toppled over and a thick layer of mud coats the office floor.

Outside, Whittaker’s pool brimming with filthy water. The fast-moving flood also carried her shed at least 30 feet downstream.

“My neighbor and I were sitting in the living room chatting. Then, all of the sudden it started to rain. Then, she said, ‘It’s coming,’” said Whittaker. “It was a wall of water.”

A couple feet of water surrounded her home.

More than three feet of water made it inside the Catalina Foothills Adult Care Assisted Living facility, according to Rural Metro. First responders evacuated the vulnerable residents, who were all taken to nearby hospitals for the night.

Whittaker says 11 people lived at the care home. She says several other neighbors also had to leave due to flooding.

Whittaker was already dealing with the aftermath of last year’s monsoon. The 84-year-old says she finally received money from her mortgage company to complete the repairs a few weeks ago.

“I’ve lived here since 1994,” said Whittaker. “Sometimes there wasn’t even any water in the wash, other times there was a little bit. Last year was the most water and we did get a bit of damage, but nothing like this!”

A neighbor has set up a GoFundMe page to help Whittaker fix her home. To donate, click HERE.

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