Palo Verde Partners, developers of the Gallery Golf Club at Dove Mountain, unveiled its second private championship course in Tucson, the Gallery South Course.
The new course joins the club's award-winning Gallery North Course, which opened in December 1998. The new course brings the private golf club up to 36 total holes. The 7,348-yard Gallery South Course was designed by architect John Fought.
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Qwest receives
long distance nod
DENVERnQwest Communications International Inc. received unanimous approval from the Federal Communications Commission to re-enter the long-distance business in Arizona.
Qwest provides local service to nearly 2.7 million customer lines in the state. The company anticipates launching its long-distance calling plans and taking Arizona customer orders in mid-December.
Qwest now has FCC approval to offer long-distance service everywhere in the United States. The company provides long-distance service to more than 1.7 million customer lines in 13 states in its local service territory.
La Encantada preview
raises funds for charity
Last month, La Encantada made its debut as Tucson's newest shopping destination with "Enchanted Evening," a private event to benefit the Angel Charity for Children Inc. The 2,000 guests at the event raised $108,000 that will make possible a new endowment fund for the Tucson charity.
La Encantada's retailers also offered their resources for the event. In particular, women's active wear retailer Lucy donated a portion of its event sales to Angel Charity, totaling nearly $900.
The mission of Angel Charity for Children Inc. is to improve the quality of life for children in Pima County. This is accomplished through an established program of fund raising for the beneficiaries selected annually by the general membership.
Wells Fargo expands
Tribal Nation services
PHOENIX n Wells Fargo announced expansion plans to provide financial services to Tribal Nations this week.
Wells Fargo hired five new relationship managers and placed teams who specialize in financial product offerings to Native Americans in key regional centers for tribes and federal agencies that work with tribes. Those locations include the Southwest, Minneapolis, Seattle and Southern California.
Wells Fargo is the first major national financial services company dedicating more than six professionals full time to serve Native Americans and Tribal Nations.
Steve Stallings, senior vice president and director of Wells Fargo Native American Banking Services, heads the new group. His responsibilities include the delivery of financial service products to Native American communities and enterprises nationwide.
Coaching franchise
launched in Tucson
Action International, an international business coaching and consulting company that helps small and medium-size businesses to prosper, was launched in Tucson.
Clint Parry, www.coachclint.com, is the first certified business coach to open a franchise through Action International in the state.
Entrepreneur Magazine lists Action International in the top 20 Fastest Growing Franchises. Founded in 1993 in Australia, Action International provides mentoring and coaching to more than 4,000 clients and 200,000 seminar attendees throughout the world.
For more information, visit www.action-international.com.
State Real Estate Dept.
announces tougher policies
PHOENIXnReal Estate Commissioner Elaine Richardson announced her intentions to increase protections for the public by implementing tougher disciplinary actions against licensed real estate agents who violate the law.
As an example, Richardson explained that summary suspensions, a provision in state statute rarely used to immediately suspend the license of serious offenders, would be used more often. Serious offenders are those who have deliberately broken the law, and whose actions pose a threat to the health, safety, or welfare of the public.
Licensees who are issued summary suspensions are instantly barred from engaging in any activity requiring a real estate license, but have the right to appeal the order within 30 days. Summary suspensions are issued by the Department of Real Estate in consultation with the attorney general's office.
Institute says light rail
to be inefficient,
ineffective and unfair
PHOENIX n The Goldwater Institute revealed numbers showing that the light-rail project proposed by the Maricopa Association of Governments will be a highly inefficient use of public resources, ineffective at reducing traffic congestion and pollution, and unfair to county taxpayers in a policy brief released last week.
The brief highlights findings from a study by Phoenix transportation expert John Semmens, which will be released Jan. 8 at a policy forum co-sponsored by the Goldwater Institute and the East Valley Tribune.
"The most shocking thing about the findings is that these are Valley Metro's own numbers," Semmens said. "The county is planning to spend $2.2 billion on light rail, equivalent to one-third of the state's entire general fund. If policymakers do not reexamine the numbers, they may make a mistake of gigantic proportions."
Semmens maintains that the light-rail project is highly unbalanced from the point of view of geographic equity. Eighty percent of the proposed 57-mile light rail system will be within the borders of Phoenix, and only four of the county's 25 jurisdictions will see any light-rail service.
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