Ground was broken Thursday for a future transitional housing complex for homeless veterans.
Esperanza En Escalante will have 44 one-bedroom units and a community center, building permits show. The project cost is about $4 million.
The complex will be built at 3680 S. Calle Polar, near Wilmot and Stella roads.
โThe goal is to teach them skills and give them resources to get them on their feet, get a job and become a productive member of society,โ said Ron Merritt, a spokesman for Gorman & Co., which partnered with the Arizona Department of Housing, Pima County Community Development and the city of Tucson on the project.
Esperanza En Escalante is a nonprofit organization that offers programs for homeless veterans, such as transitional and permanent housing.
See eeeveterans.org for more information about the project.
NEW BUILDING FOR EQUIPMENT COMPANY
Remote Solutions Inc., a Tucson-based electrical equipment company, is constructing a new building near West Grant Road and Interstate 10 to make room for growth at a sister company.
The site for the roughly 19,000-square-foot, two-story building at 2475 N. Jackrabbit Ave. is being prepared for foundation work, and the company expects to complete construction and move in March, project manager Mark Anderson said.
The building, which will include a 24-foot-high warehouse space, fabrication areas, a research lab and offices with outdoor patios, is expected to cost about $2.8 million, he said. Indevco Architecture and Construction is the designer and builder.
The new space will allow Remote Solutions to move out of a building at 2450 N. Jackrabbit Ave., that it now shares with a growing sister company, Switchgear Solutions Inc., which is expanding its engineering and construction group, Anderson said. Remote Solutions has 20 employees and Switchgear solutions employs 55.
Founded in 2001, Remote Solutions makes devices that remotely connect and disconnect industrial electrical circuit breakers and other components, to protect workers from an extremely hazardous phenomenon known as arc flash.
Switchgear Solutions, founded in 1992, sells Remote Solutionsโ products and designs and builds products including portable substations, control houses and electrical panels.
OTHER CONSTRUCTION AROUND TOWN
- Amphitheater Unified School District got a permit for a $16 million, 70,000-square-foot, six-building elementary school at 825 W. Desert Fairway Drive.
- A permit was issued for a $3.8 million, 30,000-square-foot theater anchor building at 1390 E. Tucson Marketplace Blvd.
- Worldview has taken out a permit to construct a $5.3 million, 142,450-square-foot facility at 1805 E. Aerospace Parkway.
- Another dozen homes in the senior living community Sunnyside Pointe are under construction at 739 E. Landers Drive. The permit is for eight 742-square-foot homes and four 902-square foot homes.
- Arizona Pavilions West is building out 60,000 square feet of shell space for future tenants at 8050 N. Cortaro Road for $5.6 million.
- A self-storage facility is going up at 121 W. Orange Grove Road. The $5.6 million permit is for 71,226 square feet of storage units and on-site office.
- No Anchovies Pizza Co. got a $1.1 million permit to add 8,718 square feet to its restaurant at 870 E. University Blvd.
- A $746,000 permit was issued for 10,000 square feet of retail space at 4016 N. First Ave. at the Shoppes at First & Roger development next to Fryโs.
