REAL ESTATE NEWS

On December 1, 2009, Banner broke ground on the M.D. Anderson Banner Cancer Center.


Summary of Details for Phase 1:

• Located on the Banner Gateway Medical Center Campus at
  Higley and US 60 (Superstition Freeway), Gilbert
• $107 Million Center
• 120,000 Square Feet (400,000 in future phases)
• 3 Story Outpatient Center
• Opens Fall 2011
• M. D. Anderson is ranked No. 1 in cancer care in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.^[1]
• The new center is across from Gateway Medical UTAZ Professional Village, a group of medical and professional office buildings, with few available suites.

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Learn more about M.D. Anderson Banner Cancer Center at Banner’s Website.

For details call 480-304-7477

The East Valley Tribune reports, “More than 10,000 people moved to town during the year that ended July 1, 2008, making it the fourth fastest-growing American community of more than 100,000 people over the past year.”

Read the full article at: http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/141166

Banner Gateway Medical Center, near the Gateway Medical UTAZ™ Professional Village and Vista Quinta UTAZ™ Professional Village added 36 beds for a total of 176, according to the Phoenix Business Journal. See the full article at http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2009/01/12/daily38.html.

UTAZ™ President and CEO Craig Willett, COO Arch Ratliff, and Senior VP Terri Tobey are fall featured in AZRE magazine’s annual “People to Know in Real Estate,” which includes, among others, the Valley’s leading developers, architects, brokers and city planners.

A graduate of Brigham Young University with a master’s degree in accounting, Craig originated the concept of “The Professional Village” and founded UTAZ™ Development Corp. in 1994.

A native of Washington, D.C., Arch was a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps; he also graduated from Brigham Young University with a BS in business administration.

The former associate group publisher of American Lawyer Media, Terri now oversees new business development and community relations.

Replacing her as VP of Sales and Marketing is Steve Seeger, who joined UTAZ™ after 14 years in residential real estate sales, most recently with D.R. Horton.

Following a profile in Go Gilbert magazine, Terri Tobey was featured in a Phoenix Business Journal Executive Profile and later interviewed by KFNN Radio. During the 10-minute on-air segment, she discussed UTAZ™ Development’s continued success, crediting founder Craig Willett’s vision and his unique “own for less than rent” business model which helps business professionals build equity for retirement through ownership in a UTAZ Professional Village™.

WRITTEN BY BROOKE ROMNEY
PHOTOGRAPHY BY PAUL SEBRING

Featured in the July 2008 Issue of Go Gilbert

In order to be a successful career woman in a male
dominated world, you have to be passionate and fearless—
which is exactly what Terri Tobey, the senior vice
president of business development and community
relations for UTAZ, is.

“I sold books door to door in college, and I had
to push through my fears,” says Tobey. “At my first door I
knocked, then ran and hid in the bushes.”

A person like Tobey doesn’t hide easily—this charismatic
woman was born to change the business world.
“Being a career woman was not my plan. I thought I
would stay at home and raise my three kids,” says Tobey.
However, the universe had its own plan for her. As a
suddenly single mom of three, the passion she usually
put in to raising her children quickly became a fire to
provide for them.

She took her first chance on the business world with
a job at NightRider in San Francisco. “It was the hardest
and the best decision I’ve ever made for us,” she says.
Since then, her charmed career has taken off in every
direction and she has found a way to be tough and feminine
while climbing the corporate ladder.

“I’ve never apologized for being a woman in business
or tried to be a man. God made me feminine for a reason,
so I’ve learned how to be fearless and strong without
giving away my femininity,” she says.

This subtle, self knowledge has allowed her to take
chances and tackle unknown arenas, which happened
again when she took a job with a small company called
InVision, in the tiny suburb of Gilbert, Arizona.

“When I came to Gilbert, it was realistically a crazy
move for me, but the owner of the company told me,
‘You have a fire in your belly and you don’t know where
to put it; I’ll give you somewhere to put it.’”
She planted that fire in Gilbert and she and her kids
feel this is home.

“I love Gilbert. It’s our safe place and a great place
to grow up because it’s a little town in a big town and
has a small town attitude. People come here to plant
roots and raise families and I love being a part of that,”
she says.

Because of her love for the city and her fearless attitude,
Tobey recently ran for the Arizona State Legislature.
It was nothing she’d ever dreamed of doing, but
felt her voice should be heard and was passionate about
taking part in the political process.

“I was never afraid of losing, and I’m so grateful for
what I learned from that experience,” she says.
During her campaign, one of her supporters was Craig
Willett, the President and CEO of UTAZ Development
Corporation.

He said he was praying she would lose so he could
take her analytical mind and perfect poise and make her
the face of UTAZ.

“I was never going to work for anyone again, but Craig
helped me see I was a perfect match for UTAZ. I’d always
dreamed of helping small businesses succeed, but didn’t
know how to do that and provide for my family. In UTAZ
I saw the potential to do both.”

UTAZ offers small businesses a way to own what they
work their lives for, and Tobey saw that as inspirational.
Today she works with high profile clients and economic
development committees to make Gilbert as business
and development friendly as possible, especially for
small businesses.

But this girl isn’t all corporate. Her tanned, toned
body makes it very obvious she doesn’t just sit behind
a desk all day.

“I love to do everything: golf, tennis, snowboarding,
horses, motorcycles, music, working out,” she says, and
has the bruises and sprains to prove it.

While business and hobbies are important to her, her
piercing blue eyes start to sparkle when she talks about
her greatest achievement, her three kids.

“My kids are what I am most proud of in my life,”
Tobey says. Jessica, Lucas, and Mackenzie Smith are all
smart, successful and loving people, already fearlessly
planning on success.

On June 3, UTAZ™ Development broke ground on the Maricopa Grand UTAZ Professional Village™ on the northeast corner of Desert Greens Drive and Smith Enke Road. Additionally, the Gilbert-based commercial developer has been awarded (in a unanimous City Council vote) the contract to build an 8,000 square foot public library—the city’s first—on the site, which will include more than 60,000 square feet of office space in 16 buildings. Offices will vary in size from 1,500 to 8,000 square feet and are expected to be complete in 2009. “There are few buildings of greater, long-term civic value than a first-class library,” said UTAZ™ president and CEO. “We are very honored to be selected for this project and look forward to unveiling a beautiful and much needed new facility next year.” Marciopa Community Services Director Marty McDonald plans to devote an area of the new library to small business, providing educational materials to help owners and entrepreneurs navigate the complications of owning a business, which dovetails with UTAZ™ Development’s core mission: helping small business owners. “We have had great success developing a superior product that allows small business owners to enjoy beautiful office space while realizing the benefits of ownership,” Willett said.

Consistent with other UTAZ Professional Villages™ (there are 36 in all), the Maricopa Grand UTAZ Professional Village™ will feature high quality design, distinctive architecture, abundant front door parking and monument outdoor signage—all designed to increase aesthetics and, ultimately, revenues. The complex will be ideally located adjacent to the Rancho El Dorado master-planned community as well as several community golf courses. The surrounding area has 4,000 existing homes and plans for an additional 4,000 in the near future.

The Business Journal reported “Banner Health has set the construction start date for its newest facility, Banner Ironwood Medical Center.”

Read the full story:
http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2008/05/26/daily17.html

Mass High Tech reports that with a permit from the City of Chandler, a $100 million facility that will test drugs under development and have 2,000 workers is beginning at the Chandler Airpark. Plans call for building the first phase of a 300,000-square-foot facility.

For Sales Information Contact:
Terri Tobey at 480-776-3500
or 480-544-5865 mobile

Components that constitute the UTAZ Difference, such as great locations for their office condominiums; accessibility; high-visibility signage; quality building shells; concrete flooring; high-quality building materials; thick insulation; no internal pillars; 13.5-foot high ceilings; pre-installed mechanical systems; and high-quality craftsmanship are what tenant improvement architect Marty Fifer of Fifer Design Studios appreciates when designing interiors for medical practitioners and professionals.

With six years experience practicing in Gilbert, Mr. Fifer has designed numerous spaces in the East Valley. He believes the UTAZ Difference provides him with the foundation he needs to create unique and beautiful interiors for his clients.

“We are a very customer oriented, creative-architectural interior design firm with a high focus on medical, dental and corporate service,” Mr. Fifer said. “UTAZ shells are of better quality construction. UTAZ has well thought out plans; provides very functional layouts and completes their projects on schedule.”

He said exceptional UTAZ design components for him are the lack of columns in the interiors and the height of the ceilings.

“The biggest thing is the ceiling heights and the simplicity of the building structure,” he said. “The lack of columns and few undulations provide flexibility for moving windows and doors. The shell contractors they use are very professional. The UTAZ shell construction and craftsmanship is of the highest quality and some of the best I’ve seen.”

Mr. Fifer said buyers realize savings by not having to install air-conditioning and heating units as they need to when using other builders and also save money by not having to lay down concrete floors.

“UTAZ provides savings for its customers,” he said. “The air-conditioning units are already in. The concrete slabs are down. UTAZ shells are finished products that make it easier and cheaper for us to design the interiors.”

Mr. Fifer’s firm specializes in designing dental offices and he found UTAZ to be perfect in meeting specialized design needs for dentists.

“Our experience in designing dental suites for doctors in UTAZ Professional Villages has been exceptional,” he said. UTAZ has paid particular attention to the needs of dental office requirements. The buildings always have enough mechanical, plumbing, and electrical systems to adequately accommodate dental needs and few undulations in the exterior envelope and no interior columns allow a great deal of design freedom for our interior architectural designs.”

Time in construction and design means money and Mr. Fifer appreciates the cooperation and service UTAZ provides during the design process.

“There is very much cooperation in getting information we need,” he said. “Everything is well organized. There is not much left to interpretation.”

Mr. Fifer’s firm can be reached at (480) 733-2631.

For Sales Information Contact:
Terri Tobey at 480-776-3500
or 480-544-5865 mobile