Round 2 Random Phoenix pics

[loftlovr]

Downtown Phoenix pictures:

Westward Ho
(sure old-timers, it may be your time now- but just wait till your lease is up!)
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Lisa G's
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/LisaGs5.jpg
The beloved Ice House
(Home of the Contact Design event)
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/IH23.jpg
I started with my favorite item at the event; the pillar of titty:
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Some of the treasured historic buildings:
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http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/DT155.jpg
Former Mercado/ Symington bust (ASU got the steal of a lifetime)
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circa 1900
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Our favorite! :whip:
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Chase Field (BOB)
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Bad Ass Warehouse building
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/DT147.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/DT145.jpg
Trombetta vs Stadium Lofts
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Bently Galleries
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Summit at Copper Square kicking some ass
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Fate; everything Downtown Phoenix stands for!
(fit with dj spinning from the rafters)
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Fillmore Palms:
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Produce Lofts one day?
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Summit Killing it
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El Fresnal (could be a restored hip botique Grocery store in time)
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Bad ass Studios 5c
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Campaige Place (cheap rents heyoo)
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Classic Central underpass
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/DT108.jpg
The greatest building in all of Copper Square and I hope it gets rennovated and preserved one day!
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/DT107.jpg
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PSP, where the homeless roam (but let's fight RED for trying to change that!)
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Retail opportunities
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PSP yucky yucky uck!
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/DT98.jpg
Why not Lofts?
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Old fire escapes
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Endless potential
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Beautiful Luhrs Building
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Yucky yuck spit yuck
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ASU making it's presence felt:
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http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/DT75.jpg
Bye bye old laundromat! make room....
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Opportunities, opportunities
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Ultra Modern Drip
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/Drip9.jpg
Copperstar Coffee
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Catalina Row (Beadleview)
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Cosmo sign/ 215 E McKinley in background
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/Cosmo-215.jpg


Old Town Scottsdale Hotel Valley Ho from the insides:

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http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/VH121.jpg
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mmmm.... concrete....
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Tempe Town Lake at night is something spectacular!
-especially if Light rail lights up each time the trains go by...

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http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/TTL7.jpg

Hotel San Carlos Downtown Phoenix:

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http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/SanCarlos1.jpg
(totally enough room to put that little glass tower in there! :frog: )

Royal Coffee; architect Hays McNeil of plusminus studio working the counters
(he deserves a Phoenix medal of honor for his devotion to the city)
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/Royal10.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/Royal1.jpg

The Orpheum (remodel of the 1920's Title & Trust building)
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/Orph5.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/Orph1.jpg

Tempe the Onyx lot is wrapped:
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/Onyx2.jpg
And Onyx's little neighbor Northshore :
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/Northshore5.jpg

Scottsdale- W hotel getting closer!
(I think I have deja-vu from last thread)

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/W13.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/W12.jpg

Tempe- Mosaic lot:

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/Mosaic-lot2.jpg

Tempe- Mill Avenue bridge at night:
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/Mill26.jpg

Old Town- Loloma 5 (Bruder done right):
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/Loloma5-9.jpg

ASU Tempe from street
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/ASU7.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/ASU5.jpg

Old Town Scottsdale views from an up coming Loft project:
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/4020-222.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/4020-45.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/4020-42.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/4020-38.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/4020-19.jpg

And 44 Monroe from US Bank building:
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/44Monroe6.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/44Mon4.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/44Mon2.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/44Mon1.jpg

11 Monroe Bruder revamp Downtown:
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http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/11Monroe5.jpg
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http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/11Mon3.jpg
JimInCal- did that suffice?
:cheers:

[jvbahn]

(sure old-timers, it may be your time now- but just wait till your lease is up!)

Hahaha, that's the greatest! And everyone should have a titty lamp.

Awesome pics, it was so nice seeing all the new stuff, it'll be cool to see all the stuff in person in Dec. Where is that Copper State Coffee place, it looks awesome.

Thanks for a great series of pics.

[JimInCal]

Joel... I laughed, I cried, I got a little aroused (4th pic from the top), so yeh that did the trick :tup: Tremendous tour de force my friend!

I gotta think you're right about the Westward Ho. That will be too valuable of a property for it's current use when the DT condo/loft market heats up for real.

Yuck, spit, patui, puke, spew, barf PSP... come on Cityscape!

Thanks for the great stuff loftlovr :cheers:

[PHX31]

Damn, killin' it like the Summit... great job and one hell of a comprehensive thread. From small warehouses downtown to scottsdale tempe and copper star coffee!!

jvbahn, the copper star coffee is on 7th Ave north of Indian School (Melrose) next to the nice, quaint, huge-treed Woodlea neighborhood.

[JAHOPL]

That sufficed alright, loftlovr. Thanks for all those cool pictures of some out-of-the way places as well as the better known ones.

[Vicelord John]

some of your commentary was excellent.

And I HATE the bruder deal on that building DT. It looks totally half finished, and not to mention the lights cant be seen from further than a block away.

[PHX31]

Why not a new city photos thread?

[loftlovr]

Why not a new city photos thread?
I put them in the City photos too-
I just thought it's be easier for the mountain west guys to see them here....

-I will continue to get pics of these places and post....
I am fortunate enough to have a cool job that allows me the flexibility to tour the City each month. (It is always kinda funny if I have a client that I am showing Lofts to- I try to stay professional while snapping 100 pics of the place!) :haha: (Excuse me, could you jump out of the way for a second so I can get this shot? mthaaanks...)
If any of you ever want a private tour of Camelview I'll be living there in about 10 days.... shoot me a pm

Regarding my fascination for all things Modern and MidCentury Modern alike:
I wanted to tell some of you that don't have the wallet for some of these $300 a square foot Lofts- find midcentury buildings and gut them and "create your own equity".
Myself and many of friends have gone this route- find the coolest 50-60's building (usually they are a little blighted, but beautiful in their own way) (examples: The Caribbean, Martinique, Aphrodisiac, Granada)
After you put in some serious sweat equity and some good ebay maneuvers for appliances and fixtures and some IKEA cabinets and concrete or cesar stone countertops- the place is just as rich in character as a new construction Loft but you are only in say $175 a square foot.... and then the word gets out and slowly but surely that community starts to radically improve. You can skimcoat the non-block walls, sandblast the block walls.... grind and seal concrete floors.... the only thing you cannot fix is the ceiling height and exterior of the community.
I have pics of these kinds of things if anyone is ever interested in going this route.... I am a big fan of say Postino, Drip, Copper Star.... you can mimic these models in residential and have a bachelor pad from hell....
plus you are supporting adaptive re-use!

[HooverDam]

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e7/joelcontreras/Pics11/DT151.jpg

You know, as much trouble as the Garage Mahal gets around here (and deservedly so) I don't think its the 'worst' garage downtown. To me, that honor goes to the garage just East of the Chase Tower. It creates a huge dead zone in what should be the heart of downtown, it separates the Arizona Center/Convention Center/Herberger area from all the exciting development happening on Roosevelt. Hopefully that thing will be knocked over one day and replaced by a tower w/ a garage pedestal.

[Don B.]

Nice pics! :)

--don

[oliveurban]

Fantastic. Again.

Threads like these help remind me why I do still love Phoenix.

[sundevilgrad]

Great pics, I love seeing different the Valley from different perspectives.

BTW... The titty light is better than the leg light in A Christmas Story. Where can I get one?

[nbrindley]

wow, great tour. Probably the most comprehensive photo thread I've seen yet of Phoenix.

ps. Nice to see you posting Don B.

[loftlovr]

Great pics, I love seeing different the Valley from different perspectives.

BTW... The titty light is better than the leg light in A Christmas Story. Where can I get one?


haus (in Biltmore Fashion Park or just East of Camelview)
but I warn you- it is a few hundy!!

[sundevilgrad]

My wife might not kill me if I get it and put it in the office... I'll have to go and check it out.