Alexandra Gino, Senior Designer at Gensler talks about her journey from London to Arizona and how she gets to work on all her favorite projects and drive her passion for architecture while staying so involved in the development community, finding new connections for fun and exciting projects.

Cheryl Lombard talks about being back in AZ and what she did while in Washington D.C. Hear about the new excitement in NAIOP with Cheryl at the helm and what they are doing to change the development discussion.

Happy Halloween Everyone

Shade Shutters from ASU talks about the ASU Decision Theater and how he is creating tools to help determine communities to get the right information to make the best of their workforce and know what to prepare for in the future for jobs we haven't even imagined yet. Listen in on this interesting and thought provoking discussion. 

Hear the "Hot Takes" Session led by Ryan Wozniak, Eileen Baden, Lucas Atencio and myself at the 2025 AZ State Planning Conference as we get real and talk about the real issues that planner's need addressed and how we can support each other.

Jenn Daniels from Horizon Stategies and former Mayor of the Town of Gilbert joins us to talk about a great new class for municipaliity leaders called "Civic Craft" to give them a year long course to give them a leg up on running thier communities.

Architects Ben Ayers and Hannah Hackathorn from Mancini Duffy design firm talk about their entry into the Arizona market and the new ways to approach design projects and collaborate with teams which can create better projects and talk a bit about the the unique new “bundle and save” package for rural municipalities and tribes to ensure smaller communities have quality companies bidding for their projects.

Sculptor Arthur H. Norby joins the podcast to talk about what he did before becoming a sculptor and what drives him to create these amazing pieces, how they get picked for public art installations and what he sees need to be done to put more art in our communities.

Angie Grendahl, the Director of Development for The Athens Group which develops destination locations including luxury resorts, golf courses, luxury communities and recreational destinations talks about how she got into working on these amazing projects as well as what goes into a project of this scale from working on The Phoenician to the newly announced Legacy project in Mesa.    

Jessica's annual anticipated Fast and Funny session and all the hilarious answers from lessons learned as a planner in the field!