I drove by last night on the way to Talking Stick and only seen 3. :shrug:

It took both days to erect the 3rd. The 4th started going up today, should be finished by midday tomorrow.

The 4th was finished today. That Mayo site looks quite impressive from the 101 - too bad they aren’t building taller than the main building.

They will be in the future, the East tower will be 7 stories when complete, but is designed for 2 more vertical expansions, so it will be 15 stories eventually. I believe both the Main tower (7 stories, 4 originally) and new West tower (6 stories) can each add up to 3 more floors in the future as well. So over time, that campus will begin to grow up as space gets limits to grow horizontally.

It hadn't really dawned on me that the "North Scottsdale" area which has its largest buildings in North Phoenix is starting to suppose the Valley's newest skyline from Mayo on 56th St to Cavasson on Hayden surrounding 101.

Probably a long shot, but I'd be curious to see if any of that was visible from, eg, the mountain preserve that Scottsdale bought up.

I was going through my old Flickr and found this trip down memory lane:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/combus...7605717187223/

Sure was a different time back then

I loved that mural! Definitely remember it from my childhood. Any idea what the building was that it was painted on?

I remember posting construction progress pics of the Phelps Dodge Tower when it was just above ground level on this very forum (and for anyone who cross references my "join date" of Aug 2001 to the Phelps Dodge Tower completion date, the original forum reset a couple times, I initially joined sometime in 2000 :cheers:).

A good portion of the ‘Paradise Ridge’ area is zoned for 250ft buildings. There was already a proposal back before 2008 to put up a 20 story condo tower around where Deer Valley would intersect with 64th St (which is partially why they built the 64th St overpass that for years went nowhere). The original ‘Scottsdale One’ project at 101 Scottsdale - where we only got the Henkel building (which is now abandoned by them ) was supposed to have high rises as well in later phases.

I’d imagine most of the area along the 101 will see mid-rise buildings with occasional high rise depending on the project as we move along. With a lot of the mid rises going up as it is - there’s a bit of a ‘canyon’ I can see forming. With the new Axon HQ going up soon it’ll start to get interesting.

As far as I can tell - you can’t see any of this from the Scottsdale Preserve. But you can see most of it from the ‘high rent district’ of Silverleaf and DC Ranch - ‘city lights’ is a big selling point for most of these multi-million dollar mansions along the McDowells.

That was the former JC Penny that later became a City of Phoenix administration office. Not sure why the City vacated it. I got the front of it in the same gallery.

Phoenix to consider spending millions on infrastructure to support massive semiconductor plant

https://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/...tor-plant.html

These are all things that, one way or another, will have to be built some day anyway whether that area is developed with housing, commercial, industrial, doesn't matter. I say it's a no brainer to create that many jobs.

The bigger site's zoning doc on 303 and 17 is here:

https://www.phoenix.gov/pddsite/Docu...PZ/Z-37-20.pdf
https://www.phoenix.gov/pdd/i-17-and-carefree-highway

The other one for the 450 acre supplier sites closer to deer valley airport are here:

https://www.phoenix.gov/pddsite/Docu...Z/Z-57-20n.pdf

The meeting agenda is here on page 89 where they talk about the development agreement:

https://www.phoenix.gov/cityclerksit...0-%20Final.pdf

Contrary to the article, the meeting says they haven't picked an exact site yet. I would wager it's at the airport and not the sprawling business park. Also, the 450-acre "supplier sites" are not part of the 3,500 acres.

City Council voted to approve building out the infrastructure once a site is chosen.

https://www.benzinga.com/news/20/11/...-for-12b-plant

At a Valley Partnership meeting with Mayor Gallego a few months ago, she mentioned they are leaning towards the "west valley" for the location, but who knows.

Technically that is the ‘west valley’ as its centered around Dove Valley Rd and 51st -> 43rd Aves.

Just a bit north...

Drove through Downtown today and instead of being in awe of the construction (which I should have been because there's tons) I couldn't believe how much litter & how many homeless tents there were. Not trying to sound inconsiderate as I wish they would build much nicer shelters for those people, but it was bad.

Seemed like a combination of construction workers trashing the streets and covid leaving the streets emptier than usual - near Roosevelt especially. Is there anyone that I can reach out to? I don't want Phoenix turning into Los Angeles :shrug:

I'm downtown every day and I can't say I've noticed that. If anything, I see fewer homeless people now. Regardless, you can contact PHX C.A.R.E.S if you see persistent encampments:

https://www.phoenix.gov/phxcares

There is current talk of turning the old county Hospital down by Buckeye rd (now empty) into a new homeless shelter to replace the ramshackle shelter and various homeless charities off of Washington and 12th ave.

I think this is a good idea and it gets them further away from the city core.

You're right, they do a good job of keeping the DTPHX core clean. I wish they extended the Business Improvement District N of Fillmore when they had their chance - 5th St. & Garfield looked really bad yesterday.

Thanks for the info :tup: