Coachella Rescheduled for October 2020

An alumnus of Rollins College and graduate of management programs at Northwestern and the University of Michigan, Brad Blaicher is the owner and CEO of OnSite Temp Housing in Phoenix, Arizona. In addition to providing temporary housing RVs to federal contractors and construction companies, Brad Blaicher rents them out for multi-day musical festivals like Burning Man and Coachella.

One of the most popular music festivals in the US, Coachella is a two-weekend celebration hosted annually in Indio, California. It was supposed to take place in April this year, but has been pushed back to October as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Performances are now scheduled to occur on October 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, and 18, barring any additional delays. Frank Ocean, Rage Against the Machine, and Travis Scott were expected to headline in April, but at this point it's unclear if they'll show up in October.

Despite the postponement of the event and the uncertain nature of the festival in October, music fans can take advantage of a variety of resources in the meantime. YouTube has plenty of Coachella videos of performances by popular musicians like Beyoncé, Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, and Drake, while a documentary of the event, Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert, was recently released and can be streamed for free on YouTube.

Best Hiking Trails in Phoenix for Beginners and Experienced Hikers

An accomplished entrepreneur, Brad Blaicher co-founded constructionreports.com, running it successfully before selling it in 2017. A resident of Phoenix, Arizona, Brad Blaicher enjoys hiking in his free time.

Phoenix has a number of noteworthy hiking trails in and around the city. For beginners, South Mountain Park and Preserve has easy to moderate hiking trails. The largest municipal park in the United States, it has dozens of hiking options for people who have just taken up hiking. For those who want to better their off-pavement, uneven-surface hiking skills, the Canal Trails are a better option. Stretching through neighborhoods like Arcadia and around Camelback Colonnade, the canal paths also feature good views.

For more experienced hikers, Tom’s Thumb Trail is a must-climb. Located in the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy, the hike stretches 4.2 miles up and back with incredible views from the top. For those looking for a hard climb, Echo Trail on Camelback Mountain will give just that. The 2.5-mile hike ascends 1,300 feet. The first part of the hike is reasonable, but it quickly gets difficult close to midway, with long sets of stairs and steep rock sections. Many hikers get lost or suffer heat exhaustion on their way, and more rescues are carried out here every year than in any other park in a US metropolis.

Three Reasons to Take an RV to Coachella

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ConstructionReports.com founder Brad Blaicher is an entrepreneur with a strong background in sales. Brad Blaicher owns OnSite Temp Housing, which is the largest recreational vehicle (RV) temporary housing business in the country. He sells RVs to federal contractors working on disaster projects and production companies renting them out at festivals like Burning Man and Coachella.

Here are three reasons to hire an RV for Coachella next year:

1. Expanded offsite camping options. Many nearby off-site resorts are RV friendly. They include Indian Waters RV Resort, Hits RV Park, Emerald Desert RV Resort, and Sky Valley RV Resort. Many of these resorts also have additional amenities like shuttle services to the festival, wi-fi, game rooms, swimming pools, and hot tubs which can spice up your experience.

2. Better sleep. Camping onsite is not for someone who loves sleep. The tents are not comfortable and temperatures can remain high at night because you are in the desert. You’ll want to remove clothing to stay cool, but you won’t have much privacy. An RV will give you shade, privacy, and you’ll be somewhat insulated from the noise outside.

3. Good nutrition. While there are many food offerings in nearby towns, you’ll want good nutrition to power you throughout the long music and dance festival. An RV equipped with cooking facilities will make that possible.

An Innovative, IT Outsourcing Approach With ConstructionReports.com

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Brad Blaicher is an established presence in the Phoenix, Arizona, community who guides OnSite Temp Housing, providing RV temporary housing solutions for planned events and natural disasters. Focused on innovation, Brad Blaicher also has experience cofounding ConstructionReports.com, Inc., which employed a cost-saving, technology-driven approach and was successfully sold in 2017.

As reported in Forbes in 2010, the startup built on Mr. Blaicher’s past experience running IT for a construction data publisher. With ConstructionReports.com, one of his core aims was to establish an enterprise that did not have an IT department, as infrastructure had progressed to a point where IT facets operations did not need to be handled in house.

In enabling subscribers to search and browse through recent construction activity reports, the firm did not rely on its own database administrators and programmers. Instead, it made use of the web-based database administration, publishing, and design tool Caspio.

A rapid-application development tool that employed cloud computing principles before that was a common term, Caspio allowed Mr. Blaicher’s company to utilize JavaScript on the web page to publish database applications from content hosted on the Caspio servers. This allowed him to outsource technical burdens while publishing database content created by in-house reporters.

This efficient approach to sales data gathering and dissemination allowed his company to allocate resources that would otherwise have gone toward web development to areas such as sales and marketing, and producing quality content.