“Before there can be a business community, there
needs to be a way for businesses to connect and share ideas, clients, challenges and successes,” explained Katie Pushor, president and CEO of the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce. “The chamber already has more than 100 members in Deer Valley and it was time to localize more services and provide an identity forthe business community by forming a chapter of the Chamber, just as has been done successfully in Anthem
and the South Mountain Laveen areas.”
The Greater Phoenix Chamber has 4,000 members
and is one of the largest chambers in the nation. It
was founded in 1888 and has been instrumental in the growth of the Valley.
Pushor and Deer Valley area business and governmental leaders formed an Advisory Council last month to address the specific issues facing businesses in the community and determine how the Greater Phoenix Chamber should extend its resources to support them.
“All members of the Chamber will benefit from the
growth of the Deer Valley community chapter,” she
added. “Members join the chamber because they want to be exposed to businesses Valleywide, not just their immediate area. They also want support of a big organization when it comes to dealing with the government on issues like transportation.”
Issues selected for attention by the Advisory Council include transportation, employee housing and recruitment and how to build a sense of com-munity in an area with an annual new business growth rate exceeding 20%.
Jackson Fonder, USAA
Tiffany Hopkins, Deer Valley Magazine
Craig Boates, Boates & Crump
Chris Keeley, Collier International
Dan Coleman, John C. Lincoln Hospital
Kylee Bell, Bista Enterprises
George Bell III, Land Research;
Dr. Mary Kay Kickels, Paradise Community College
Mark Whittaker, National Bank of Arizona
Gary Mascaro, Deer Valley Airport
of BestBill®, and chair of the
Advisory Council, hosted a
breakfast mixer at her Deer
Valley headquarters which
attracted attendees from more
than 50 businesses. The council
also presented a Deer Valley
economic forecast at Turf
Paradise on February 20.
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of the master plan for the Deer Valley Airport at Bista’s Deli & Restaurant. Deer Valley is the nation’s busiest general aviation airport.
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