The setup and takedown for the 2024 Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix will need six fewer months than it did for last year’s inaugural race. Grand Prix CEO Renee Wilm said Wednesday during Preview Las Vegas at Fontainebleau that the buildout of the race will take about three months this year, down from the nine months of set-up work last year. The work includes setting up the track ahead of the ...
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Jan. 28—Data centers in Mesa are starting to build up, not just out. In what could be a harbinger of the future of Mesa's data center scene, the Mesa Planning and Zoning Board approved plans for three 95-foot-tall data center buildings on 43 acres of land at Elliot Road and Everton Terrace in southeast Mesa. The footprint will be 2.1 million square feet. The project covers the northern half of ...
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Yuma County supervisors are not happy with the rising costs of constructing the new administration building, but they still approved an amendment to the contract, noting that at this point, they have no choice but to pay it. However, several of the supervisors expressed frustration that the project went from under $30 million to almost $55 million. Supervisor Tony Reyes said he was "shocked" ...
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Jan. 22—The New Mexico Environment Department is pushing ahead with a proposal to tap brackish water and hydraulic fracturing wastewater for industrial use amid opposition from Indigenous and environmental groups that call it a giveaway to the oil and gas industry. Energy Secretary James Kenney told lawmakers Monday the department "kicked off" the process last week by issuing a request for ...
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LAKE MEAD — Lake Mead, the source of almost 90 percent of Southern Nevada's water, is expected to near 2022's historic low by the end of 2025, this month's Bureau of Reclamation projection shows. Based on the most likely scenario for Colorado River inflow, federal scientists predict the reservoir will dip to 1,044 feet in December 2025 — just 4 feet higher than the lowest level seen since it ...
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Two Native American tribes in Arizona are suing the U.S. government over the construction of a wind-energy transmission line through the San Pedro Valley east of Tucson. The Tohono O'odham Nation and the San Carlos Apache Tribe are calling for construction work to stop on the SunZia Southwest Transmission Project until the Bureau of Land Management completes a "legally adequate inventory of ...
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Detailed plans for seawater desalination, mostly from Mexican coasts, dominate a list of more than 20 project ideas sent to an Arizona agency for importing water into this increasingly thirsty state. The desalination projects, submitted to the Water Infrastructure Finance Authority of Arizona, are proposed for all over the region’s map. The locations range from Baja California’s Pacific Coast ...
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Oregon developers are eyeing a vacant downtown parcel for a boutique hotel and “festival alley” for events. Obie Companies, based in Eugene, has entered into a written agreement with the Rio Nuevo district to explore the project at 75 E. Broadway, adjacent to the Old Chicago Store. “We’re impressed with what you’ve accomplished in downtown Tucson,” the company president and CEO, Brian Obie, ...
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