PHOENIX | Central Station Tower | 390 FT | 34 FLOORS
 

Renderings:

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Site Plan:

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The design of this tower is descent. In addition, this development will provide more density and skyline depth.

Chicago developer to build Phoenix's tallest residential high-rise
 

Looks like this is actually happening.....

Phoenix has selected a Chicago developer to build the city's largest and tallest residential high-rise in downtown, a 34-story glass tower that will change the city's skyline.

Plans for the massive development, known as Phoenix Central Station, include about 475 apartments, 30,000 square feet of commercial space and a dog park. It will meld those uses with a bustling transit hub already on the site at 300 N. Central Avenue.

Smith Partners LLC is expected to begin construction on the $82 million development by August 2015 and open its doors in 2017.

Phoenix leaders said Central Station will bolster the cultural and economic renaissance underway in the downtown core. The area has transformed in recent years as the city has invested heavily in a light-rail system and incentives to lure large developments.

Attracting more residents, officials said, is the next step toward attracting new amenities and keeping downtown's restaurants, bars and shops in business. David Krietor, CEO of the marketing and planning group Downtown Phoenix Inc., said the Central Station project has the potential to create an entirely new neighborhood within downtown, bringing more than 600 people to a lot that currently serves a limited purpose as a bus and light-rail stop.

"We really are beginning to develop an extremely vibrant place whose economic success, I think, is helping the rest of the city," Krietor said.

Phoenix owns the land and wanted a project that would integrate with the site's light-rail stations and create a urban environment friendly to residents, shoppers, pedestrians and bicyclists.

Councilwoman Kate Gallego, whose district includes parts of downtown, has emphasized the need to make the project walkable and appealing at the street level by including space for recreation and work areas for budding entrepreneurs.

"Some of the buildings we've built in our downtown have a more suburban feel," she said. "The more you can design the major street spaces to be attractive to pedestrians, the more vibrant it will feel, the more we'll get that active downtown feel that people are beginning to celebrate."

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This is a nice tower, hopefully they build it. I feel like Phoenix's skyline should be taller though with the city reaching major city status and a population approaching 2 million people. I guess there is always the future for that.

Height restrictions can't build more then 400ft in most parts of the city

About time to get rid of those.

Those are airport height limits. Not sure if its worth the effort to wrangle with the FAA to get those changed. Up to 600' is allowed on the edge of downtown though.

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Phoenix needs a super tall.

Phoenix needs to build the Copenhagen of America. Embrace the height restriction and build a human-scaled city. It could be awesome.

A reasonable, simple tower.

If they can't build tall because of the airport they need to move the center of downtown to somewhere where they can build taller. I think its a missed opportunity for Phoenix, Las Vegas is beating it to the punch. And Phoenix is probably going to end up being the larger more important city.

It is at street level which is more important than up in the air. Tall buildings are great, but I like developments which have interaction at the street level. As an example, Washington DC has a very stringent height restriction, but is very well alive at the street level; even into the late night hours.

All the city has to do is negotiate with them. I can't figure out why people always use that argument, its your government. You have the ability to play a part in it.

News report on the project:

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It's not necessary. Downtown phoenix jut needs to build more mid-rise dense housing to create a downtown that actually is inviting. Skyscrapers are a luxury and should not be the first priority. #1 is getting a vibrant city going, skyscrapers if needed will come later. There are far too many american downtowns with scrapers but not a soul goes there other than work and then they are dead most of the time.

I agree with the person who said Copenhagen. yes, not every cbd in america needs a skyscraper. What use is that when the city has no housing or activity outside work hours? I think lower but dense housing is a better approach than a few tall towers surrounded by parkings lots.

It'll get there. Given how much land there is, and the price of such land, its cheaper to just expand than it is to build upwards. But the city itself is still relatively young. It will have its mid rise/high rise boom eventually as land becomes tight. Although Phoenix is really a huge blunder on the part of urban planning. If only they had focuses on smart policies from the beginning and if it didn't mindlessly sprawl. It sucks because I would really have liked it if it was efficient. :(

Uh, the only difference between Phoenix and other US cities of similar size is that Phoenix lacks a real urban core. Every city sprawls in horrible ways, but in terms of efficiency at least Phoenix tends to sprawl in contiguous increments rather than the leapfrog pattern you see everywhere east of the Rockies.

It isn't any better or worse than anywhere else in those terms.

But I digress.

This is a nice tower for the Phoenix skyline, but it does little to activate the street and unfortunately that's what the central city needs right now.

Project is going to start by summer. Completion by 2017.

Site Plans:

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What’s the deal with the Central Station apartment tower development in downtown Phoenix?

This one can likely be written off as cancelled. The developer passed away a yr ago and there's been no update since then.

Developer’s death could dim big downtown development

Aug 25, 2016