The 2009 opening of Shepley Bulfinch’s Phoenix office could hardly have been more fortuitous. Already on track back then to becoming the nation’s 10th most populous metro area, a milestone that Phoenix achieved last year, it is also the hub of the Southwest’s burgeoning construction market.
Ten years ago, the city was also on the cusp of an evolutionary transformation in health care, higher education and urban living—market sectors that have long been among the Boston-based firm’s core strengths.