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Dirt to Development — 84 episodes

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Ep. 83 - Digging In: The Trials of a First-Time Developer…with Kristian Cotta

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Ep. 82 - Zoned and Confused: 6 Land Use Trends Reshaping Arizona

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Ep. 81 - From NIMBY to Neighborly: Turning Project Opponents into Project Allies

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Ep. 80 - Old Buildings, New Tricks: The Legal Playbook for Adaptive Reuse in Arizona

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Ep. 79 - Silicon Meets Site Plans: AI is Fast – But Can it Read the Room?

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Ep. 78 - The Growth Advocate: Clark Princell on Housing, Politics, and Arizona’s Development Future

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Ep. 77 - Big Box to Big Blocks: The Empty Commerical to Multifamily Makeover w/George Pasquel

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Ep. 76 - The ROAD Less Traveled: What Congress' Housing Bill Means for BTR with Steve LaTerra

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Ep. 75 - Build-to-Rent Meets the Federal Speed Bump

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Ep. 74 - Watt’s the Deal with Data Center Zoning?

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Ep. 73 - Razing the Bar: An Adaptive Reuse Love Story

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Ep. 72 - Proportionately Yours

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Ep. 71 - Community Outreach 101...with Tom Bilsten

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Ep. 70 - The Toy Barn - A grown ass mancave...with Jason Phillips

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Ep. 69 - Shouting Loudly: Is Civic Discourse a Lost Art?

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Ep. 68 - Golf Course Conversions: Pulling off the impossible

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Ep. 67 - Friends in the right places...with Steve Bowser

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Ep. 66 - Taking Punches...with Rich Zacher

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Ep. 65 - Friends in the right places...with Steve Bowser

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Ep. 64 - Origin Stories: Zoning Attorney to Superhero...with Ben Tate and Alex Hayes

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Ep. 63 - What does a PHD from MIT have to do with Development?...with Alex Pollack

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Ep. 62 - C.R.A.B.S and Referendums: Two Things Nobody Wants...with Grant Fisher, VAI Resorts

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Ep. 61 - Buildng a Winning Entitlement Strategy...with Todd Gosselink

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Ep. 60 - Halo Vista: A City Within a City...with Craig Henig

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Ep. 59 - "A Finger on the Pulse"...with Scott Isham

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Ep. 58 - Engineer to Developer; Passion to PowHer

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Ep. 57 - Oh, What a Year! with Matt Mancini

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Ep. 56 - "I've seen a lot of tools…"

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Ep. 55 - Why every project needs alignment between their zoning attorney and civil engineer…with Darrell Wilson of Colliers Engineering and Design.

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Ep. 54 - "If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else"

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Ep 53 - Making News with Greg Barr, Editor, Phoenix Business Journal

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Ep. 52 - "You don't get to pick where you are born, but you get to pick where you die"

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Ep. 51 - Titans of the Trade: John Graham

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Ep. 50 - "The ability to give the elected official a soft place to land"

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Ep. 49 - "Molass at the Legislature" with Tom Dorn

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Ep. 48 - The Buzzkill of zoning and land development…with Dawn Cartier and Sarah Simpson.

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Ep. 47 - What do On Cloud Shoes, Spec Industrial, and Data Centers Have in Common?

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Ep. 46 - The mindset of running our cities like businesses.

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Ep. 45 - Entitled? Think twice.

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Ep. 44 - 2023 Market Naughty and Nice List

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Ep. 43 - Two Lumps of Coal and Other Laughs From 2023

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Ep. 42 - Minimal Living Concepts with Maximum Potential

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Ep. 41 - From Skymall to ZenniHome with Bob Worsley

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Ep. 40 - Industrial State of the Union

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Ep. 39 - Let's Get Fiscal: The Intersection of Financing & Development

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Ep. 38 - Water Scarcity: Fact or fiction?

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Ep. 37 - Will You Be My Banker?

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Ep. 36 - From Creating News to Covering News

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Ep. 35 – Falling off Rooftop Bars and Learning to Fly

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Ep. 34 - Blow Pops, free enterprise, and housing for all!

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Ep. 33 - 12,000 jumps a day

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Ep. 32 - Bonus Episode – Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CEPTD)

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Ep. 31 - When Sean Connery joins the podcast

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Ep. 30 - "Just add a little more Gingerbread…" w/Korey Wilkes and Scott Thomas

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Ep. 29 - A Shot Across the Bow, SB1117

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Ep. 28 - Depressive Shade of Grey

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Ep. 27 - "Two attorneys walk into a bar…" with Mark Tarbell

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Ep. 26 - Finding Your Coach

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Ep. 25 - The Man, the Myth, the Legend: Mike Withey

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Ep. 24 - Greg Vogel, Part 2

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Ep. 23 - We're Basically Famous

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Ep. 22 - Prosopagnosia and the Database Man

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Ep. 21 - Haboobs and the evolution of experiential retail development…with Chris Hake and Andy Call

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Ep. 20 - How to destroy municipal zoning authority...and put zoning attorneys out of business, with Caleb Rhodes

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Ep. 19 - Perry Mason, Harvey Specter, Ally McBeal, and…Dan Dowd???

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Ep. 18 - A Baker's Man

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Ep. 17 - Sniffin' Butts and Other Common Pitfalls to Avoid in Site Selection w/ Brett Hopper and Steve Backman

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Ep. 16 - Top 10 Zoning Landmines to Avoid

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Ep. 15 - MRAD: Masters in Really Awesome Development…(sorta) w/ Mark Stapp and Andrea Alley

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Ep. 14 - Joe Johnston: The Mastermind Behind Agritopia, Epicenter, Joe's BBQ and More

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Ep. 13 - Michael Rumpeltin, Creative Genius and Adaptive Reuse King

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Ep. 12 - Zoning Interpretations and other "Letters to Mom" w/Kevin Mayo and Tricia Gomes

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Ep. 11 - The Batman and Robin of Economic Development w/ Brian Friedman and Randy Huggins

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Ep. 10 - There is no replacement for proper(ty) due diligence with Stephanie Watney and George Pasquel

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Ep. 9 - Amending the General Plan is Not Rewriting the Bible w/ Ben Tate

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Ep. 8 - "Mary, Queen of N. Central" with Mary Crozier

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Ep. 7 - Even the Death Star needs a Planning Director with Alan Stephenson and Randy Grant

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Ep. 6 - Lessons learned from the Dais: Volunteer Commissions & Boards, with Jimmy Lindblom and Jessica Sarkissian

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Ep. 5 - "Don't Tell Me I Can't" with Nate Nathan

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Ep. 4 - Zoning & Politics: A kick in the ball(ot box) - with Gibson Mackay

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Ep. 3 - Won't you (not) be my neighbor? with Todd Chester

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Ep. 2 - Nuts and Bolts of Zoning with Jim Stockwell

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Ep. 1 - What's this all about?

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Get ready to dish the Dirt!