Sharon Harper and the Plaza Companies have helped shape Greater Phoenix’s landscape
By John B. Mugford
Sharon Harper
Sharon Harper was working as a teacher in Greater Phoenix when she decided to become an entrepreneur and launch a new business, the Plaza Companies, in 1982.
The Peoria, Ariz.-based company’s first project, Plaza Del Rio, started with one medical outpatient building (MOB) and eventually grew into a 500,000 square foot, multi-building, mixed-use healthcare campus with MOBs, research centers, senior living facilities and commercial properties.
That project’s growth, as well as its evolution into a mixed-use development area, reflects the growth and philosophy that the Plaza Companies itself has experienced since then, as the firm has, with healthcare real estate remaining a foundation, grown into a full-service real estate company that provides development, property management, brokerage, leasing, investment and asset management and construction management services.
As for its work in healthcare real estate (HRE), it has worked for and with all of the major health systems and large physicians groups in the region, in developing, leasing and managing more than
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