Business

Local couple makes, bottles, sells wine under one roof

By PAUL MARYNIAK Executive Editor You won’t find grapevines or even grapes at Basil and Colleen Kaspar’s Chandler store, but inside you’ll find all the igredients and apparatus for the small-batch, home-made wines they...

New retail center proposed in Chandler

By Kevin Reagan Staff Writer Developers are hoping to turn a three-acre dirt lot on the southwest corner of Pecos and McQueen roads into a retail center that could house several new businesses. Diversified Partners, a Scottsdale...

Area travel agent sees post-pandemic opportunity

By PAUL MARYNIAK Executive Editor COVID-19 has decimated the travel industry both here and abroad. The U.S. Travel Association said travel in the U.S. alone lost more than $10 billion last year while the World Tourism...

Chandler relaunches business assistance program

ARIZONAN NEWS STAFF Chandler is relaunching its program to help small businesses retain workers. Only $4 million of the $9.5 million that City Council allocated to the “I Choose Chandler Business Hiring and Retention Program”...

Rudy’s Bar-B-Cue keeps expanding in East Valley

SANTAN SUN NEWS STAFF Rudy’s Country Store and Bar-B-Cue, which made its first foray in Arizona by opening a restaurant in Chandler, is growing. In the 1800’s, Max Aue developed the small community of Leon Springs, in the...

Financial lessons learned from 2020 and the pandemic

By Harold Wong Guest Writer We’ve just lived through an amazingly turbulent 2020, where the coronavirus pandemic has upended the lives of tens of millions of Americans. There have been mass layoffs and huge government shutdowns...

Couple opens food truck bakery after job loss

By Melody Birkett Contributor Loss of work due to COVID-19 prompted Amber and Eric Leediker to start a new career and open a & e b.a.k.e.d at the Premium Outlets in Chandler. “Eric and I both have strong roots in the...

Steelyard filling up fast with retail, food tenants

By Kevin Reagan Staff Writer The Steelyard, a $12 million commercial center in southeast Chandler, has recently opened its doors to a variety of new tenants in a region of the city notably lacking in retail options. Named after...

Waymo sticking with autonomous ride zone for now

By PAUL MARYNIAK Executive Editor Chandler residents who are hoping to catch a ride to downtown Phoenix or Scottsdale in one of those odd-looking white Chrysler minivans or Jaguar sedans with no one behind the wheel will have to...

2019 DV grad starts her own apparel company

By Coty Dolores Miranda Contributor Before the pandemic struck, 11-year Ahwatukee resident Hannah Ervin had traveled to Switzerland, Hawaii and Brazil. They were journeys with other purposes but the inspiration from absorbing...