Looks like Mitchell, Arredondo-Savage and Navarro.

Will be interesting to see if they actually build on spec. I had heard they wouldn't build until they had tenants despite the crane sitting there, but sounds like maybe a change of heart.

https://azbigmedia.com/1-9m-sf-water...ming-to-tempe/

More details on the Mesa property being built by the cubs park.

https://azbigmedia.com/wp-content/up...-The-Union.jpg


https://azbigmedia.com/mesa-picks-li...-35m-sf-union/

Biomedical Campus is officially underway on the lake. There's new signage up everywhere and a bunch of workers. :cheers:

Also, new fencing is up around the old Trails building on Mill Ave & 5th.

Please remind me, what’s going up on the old trails?

5TH STREET PREPARED FOOD MARKET & BAR (PL170154) is requesting a use permit to allow a restaurant with a full service bar in the Barmeier Building located on the northeast corner of West 5th Street and South Maple Avenue in the CC, City Center District and within the TOD, Transportation Overlay District. The restaurant and bar will provide a market-style establishment with a large kitchen serving fast casual meals on weekdays with a full breakfast/brunch offered on weekends.

Nice. This one will be a long, slow burn. The site is a former landfill so right now they are starting with remediation, which is going to involve excavation and then adding back "clean fill." Then it's (I believe) 5 phases over the next 15-20 years, with the first phase being the first building and a parking garage.

Glad they were able to persevere, the Hayden Square association ran them through the ringer appealing the entitlement decisions.

Updated sign on Orange st and Terrace for upcoming meetings.

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Just to confirm, the above project is only the Crossroads apartment complex. The Tempe Terrace at the end of the block and the College Town are not a part.

They updated Streetview for the area. University Village is finishing fast for Fall 2018. The Greek Life project is ugly as hell.

what condo complex high rises are going up in tempe?

^ None.

Tho I surmise some of the higher quality complexes around the Valley might end up converting to condos in time.

The Greek Life project completely destroys the pedestrian streetscape that was beginning to develop along Terrace. Setbacks from the sidewalk, horrible architecture, probably will be covered up by gravel and desert-landscaped "nature Bandaid." A wasted opportunity, cheap, ugly, with no thought given to the broader street concept. Does anyone know if they included street-level retail, or did they just create a block-sized gap in the urban fabric?

The chapter houses will have enclosed back yards on Terrace, so I'm assuming a giant brick wall is going to go up. Maybe it will have back gates, probably not. Looks to be a secured gate between the community center and the strip of townhouses.

https://greekvillage.asu.edu/explore...ies/facility-a

I believe there is supposed to be some retail in the community center on the corner of Terrace/Rural, but nothing else along the frontage. Disappointing. I sort of get not overdoing it with retail, given that Vortex's retail has been vacant for years now. But even walkup units, fitness centers, anything facing the street would have been better than the desert-landscape buffer, utility boxes and fences that they have.

Vertex filled the space on the Rural Rd corner. I have to wonder about the remaining space: limited parking with visitors for the whole building, possibly a greedy corporate landlord, not particularly close to light rail stops, no major street visibility.

The large patio suggests some kind of destination restaurant which doesn't make a whole lot of sense with student apartments above. That being said, the complex replaced a bunch of smaller vintage retail structures, so like anything else I bet the landlord just needs to lower rents.

New tempe developments historically have a hard time filling ground floor retail space. Even at the Rise, a restaurant size retail spot sits empty. I like what 922 place did by having a small chase bank location. Nexa is doing well but any street traffic these places get are from residents or people on bikes and scooters so more bike racks are a must. They need to have more public parking spaces at apartments or street parking with meters.

I am hoping Sterling 920 place gets some good retail tenants. Lets hope skyview has a good retail/landscape plan. If it ever gets started...

To add to this, the only high-rise in Tempe proposed for condo units of which I'm aware is The Hayden (https://www.tempe.gov/Home/ShowDocument?id=60871). It made it through design review/entitlements in March. Your guess is as good as mine as to whether it will ever be built.

I thought that the hotel component (Marriott brand) was eager to move forward with it. It could be one of those condos proposed but "we actually meant student housing in the mean time" kinda of scenarios.

Coverage of The Collective.

http://rebusinessonline.com/core-spa...tempe-arizona/