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Vol. 79 No. 10
Inside This Week
Diversified Partners invests in Glendale real estate Glendale Star Managing Editor
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iversified Partners, a Scottsdale-based real estate brokerage and development company, recently announced a massive $100 million investment in a portfolio of commercial real estate projects in Glendale. For Walt Brown Jr., founder and CEO of Diversified Partners, the interest in the city has always been there. His company has been working in Glendale for more than 10 years, and for good reason. “Glendale has been so proactive for so many years,” Brown said. “They have always been a community that’s trying to get business done and trying to grow the city properly, and really has been a forward thinker.
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… We’ve all been through some recession times, they’ve always been forward thinking, and they’ve been great to us as a company.” The projects, which include the En Fuego retail development, the Cambria Hotel, the N. 91st Avenue and Cardinals Way retail development, and the N. 75th Avenue and West Bethany Home Road commercial space, will bring 500 new job opportunities and economic growth to the city. “When you have the excitement that is happening in the city of Glendale, the users, the credit tenants, the national publicly traded tenants, they have an interest in it, and they want to be there when you have SEE PARTNERS PAGE 4
Walt Brown Jr. is founder and CEO of Diversified Partners. (Diversified Partners/Submitted)
PopStroke tees off with new location in Glendale BY JOE MCHUGH
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March 9, 2023
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ith golf becoming one of the hottest sports in the country since the COVID-19 pandemic, people are looking for any way to get out onto the course, and Westgate’s newest addition PopStroke aims to scratch that itch. A top-of-the-line mini golf course designed by arguably the greatest golfer of all time, Tiger Woods, PopStroke comes with an array of entertainment that gives golfers a one-of-a-kind experience.
“It really is just about bringing in friends and family together regardless of your age, your background or your skill level to enjoy the game of golf,” PopStroke founder and CEO Greg Bartoli said. “In addition to golf, (we have) cornhole, foosball, pingpong and all sorts of other amenities and games for people of all ages to enjoy.” Also partnered with golf equipment company TaylorMade, the facility features two 18hole golf courses. Although the SEE POPSTROKE PAGE 6
With the Westgate location resembling that of the PopStroke location in Sarasota, Florida (pictured above), Glendale citizens will get to experience a mini golfing round like no other. (PopStroke/Submitted)
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