Metropolitan Pima Alliance

“The Metropolitan Pima Alliance provides a unique forum for development of common sense approaches to meeting our region's diverse challenges. MPA's success in building common ground will help shape the community's success."- Mayor Robert E. Walkup, City of Tucson

"The Town of Marana finds value in partnering with MPA. We highly respect MPA's leadership and the methods they use in trying to create resolutions that benefit the entire community."- Mayor Ed Honea, Town of Marana

“The Town of Sahuarita appreciates the Alliance’s commitment to educate and inform local jurisdictions of the broad range of development issues taking place in Metro-Pima County. We also appreciate their comprehensive efforts to gather information, profile important issues and disseminate information to its members which allows us to accurately monitor the political pulse of our region. We look forward to our continued association with the Metropolitan Pima Alliance."- Vice-Mayor Lynne Skelton, Town of Sahuarita

"The Town of Oro Valley welcomes constructive collaboration between stakeholders in the development process. We applaud MPA for their willingness to come to the table in search of common ground."- Dr. Satish Hiremath, Mayor of Oro Valley

“The Metropolitan Pima Alliance provides a valuable service to our community by advocating for intelligent discourse on issues that will affect the look and feel of our region for years to come.  Pima County benefits from the thoughtful engagement of organizations like MPA and looks forward to a continuing dialogue with business and industrial leaders regarding the environmental and economic future of our region.” -Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry

“The Town appreciates the great work performed on a daily basis by the Metropolitan Pima Alliance and its members. Their efforts create a strong climate for economic growth across the region.”

- Marana Town Manager Gilbert Davidson

“MPA's focus on participating in collaborative processes, advocating and honoring public-private partnerships through the Common Ground program, and showcasing projects and growth issues through the Wild Ride makes it a valued resource for the professional planning community as we work together to evolve the sustainable future of our region.” - Arlan Colton, Pima County Planning

“MPA has been very helpful in bringing people together with diverse perspectives and giving us advice on policy and regulations. I really appreciate this organization as an entity that provides a “bridge” between the public and private sectors.” - Sarah S. More, FAICP, Town of Sahuarita Planning and Building Director

“Marana’s Town Council is pleased to have the Metropolitan Pima Alliance as one of its regional partners. The MPA’s Common Ground Awards celebrate the strengths and potential that we all see in the region.”

-Marana Vice Mayor Patti Comerford

"Wow- I've known that MPA is involved and important, but seeing this list of accomplishments really brings home how the organization has grown and become a true advocate for smart policy! Congratulations!" - Mitch Basefsky, Central Arizona Project (CAP), in response to MPA's 2009 'Year in Review'

"MPA assembled a diverse group of development professionals to better Oro Valley's Landscape Conservation Code. In truth - I expected advocacy to "just say no". It was quite the opposite - and the collaboration proved very helpful. The final product is creative, purposeful, and realistic." - Bayer Vella Oro Valley Conservation and Sustainability Manager

"MPA is one of the few organizations that truly gets down into the trenches and actually makes things happen to improve our regions quality of life and business environment.  MPA does this through a collaborative effort with local jurisdictions, creating intelligent solutions to our community's planning, development and growth challenges." - ‪Thomas J. Nieman‬, Principal, PICOR Commercial Real Estate Services

“The MPA leadership does an outstanding job of identifying, researching and bringing complex issues to the community's attention. By addressing issues in a collaborative manner, MPA helps bring diverse interests together for thoughtful consideration and productive outcomes.” - Jan Gordley, President, Gordley Design Group, Inc.

“TEP recognizes tremendous value in MPA’s ability to bring together a variety of organizations and facilitate meaningful discussions related to current events and developments that impact all walks of life in Pima County. TEP’s core mission of ensuring the reliable economic delivery of energy to its customers has benefited from MPA’s collaborative approach to addressing the issues facing the area.”- Erik Bakken, Manager, Corporate Environmental Services and Land Management, Tucson Electric Power/UniSource Energy Corp.

I have been involved in MPA for almost a decade.  MPA is the group in Tucson that is actively addressing development issues and having great results.  Their breakfasts provide a wealth of information and are a great networking opportunity.  For my money, MPA is the organization to join. - William “Bill” Carroll, PE, Sr. Vice President,Engineering and Environmental Consultants, Inc. (EEC)

"I wanted to let you know how impressed I was with the quality of both the speakers and the content of the P3 Seminar yesterday.

This was a truly informative opportunity to gain insight from a cross section of practitioners, in various professional areas, each of whom had significant, relevant experience dealing with the key aspects of this emerging project funding mechanism.

At the price, it was an amazing value.  In fact, given the quality of speaker(s) and information provided, MPA could have easily charged 10 times the amount and I still would have felt it to be a terrific value.