ADOT has issued a right-of-way permit to Porter Brothers and Arizona Water Company to install utility lines on eastbound State Route 89A for the Marriott Hotel project, which is being built on the southeast corner of Upper Rock Rock Loop Road and State Route 89A.
The work will consist of a single lane closure in the eastbound direction starting approximately 1,600 feet west of Upper Red Rock Loop Road with an anticipated duration of seven to 10 days, although the foreman on the site Wednesday, Nov. 18, said he expected the closure to last for the next two weeks.
The traffic control set up will be in place for 24 hours per day over the seven to 10 days. The delay will depend on the time of day. During peak hours, drivers may anticipate 10- to 20-minute delays. The contractor isn’t planning on flagging at this time.
Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rocks News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been featured in Editor & Publisher magazine. He lectures on journalism and First Amendment law and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. Retired U.S. Army Col. John Mills, former director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs referred to him as "Mr. Slam Poet." In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."
