PHOENIX--Opus West, the most active developer in the state, is rapidly expanding its operations in California, as the recovery comes to full bloom and will take a more cautious approach to building in Arizona.

PHOENIX-A 188,000-sf office and warehouse park on the border of Phoenix and Tempe has been purchased for $11.5 million by a local investor.

PHOENIX-A local investor has purchased a complex in central Phoenix for $31,000 per unit.

PHOENIX--A group of Chicago investors has an apartment complex in northeast Phoenix purchased for a little more than $26,000 a unit.

PHOENIX--Just weeks before its scheduled to open, the Collier Center, a $500-million office, hotel and retail project in the heart of downtown, has landed another major tenant, one of the state's up and coming law firms.

PHOENIX--The developer of a $125-million mixed-use project in downtown Mesa, which would include a hotel, water park and ice rink, wants more time from the city to arrange financing.

PHOENIX--The burgeoning West Valley may be getting its second Class-A office building now that Phoenix-based SunCor is considering putting up another 47,000-sf building.

PHOENIX-A $114-million courthouse design by internationally renowned architect Richard Meier opens today with much fanfare, and Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Conner on hand to dedicate her namesake building.