Tempe Depot
 

If you scroll down on the site you can see what the Tempe Depot Station looked like in 1975 before it was remodeled. Originally built in 1924!


http://www.trainweb.org/usarail/tempe.htm

^ lol those pics up there...looks like a 12 y.o. designed it! very hodge-podgey

I was bicycling along the Indian Bend Wash greenbelt from Scottsdale to Tempe yesterday for the first time in a few years. As I crossed into Tempe, I noticed the land between McKellips and Curry, behind Big Surf, is behind a fence. The multiuse path is still open, but everything else is inaccessible. I think this are might have once been a golf course, but I can't remember for sure. Does anyone know what the status of this area is?

Here's a map, just in case my text does not describe it precisely:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1h6...KI&usp=sharing

Singh Farms

Thanks. I've heard such good things about that place, but it's shame it looks so ugly and neglected from the path.

https://i.imgur.com/5jQN8cj.jpg

It looks like there is another walkway being built by the Tempe town lake. It’s right bellow the current walk way by the Tempe Art Center. Also the shrubs are being cleared from the dry lakebed.

https://i.imgur.com/GhV6x1n.jpg

Part of the lake’s edge is fenced. Maybe there is a walkway being paved?

http://azbex.com/5-story-hotel-propo...00-rio-salado/

I’m not a big fan of some of the developments on 2100 Rio Salado. For such a prime piece of real estate next to two major freeways I would expect better hotels but at least the development is growing.

It's good for Tempe's economy, but that entire development is a bore. It's not urban at all. I wish all those companies and hotels were going into Novus.

1/22/2020
 

Street Car:

https://i.imgur.com/JI2FQRBh.jpg

Roundabout:

https://i.imgur.com/vPO0vWih.jpg

First + Farmer:

https://i.imgur.com/vx6JsLah.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Qp0b6iWh.jpg

Mirabella:

https://i.imgur.com/XS5x3rsh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/95hfSXLh.jpg

Oliv:

https://i.imgur.com/opzoCPNh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/KA3CkNah.jpg

Westin:

https://i.imgur.com/DpZmY5Ih.jpg

707 Forest:

https://i.imgur.com/1HczQ0Xh.jpg

Novus Hyatt and Garage:

https://i.imgur.com/rMZDkAkh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/pKwwJ2Kh.jpg

Aspen Heights/777 Tower:

https://i.imgur.com/Cwpu3ofh.jpg

Watermark:

https://i.imgur.com/VbbRm2Vh.jpg

Thanks for pics!

One question though. Aspen Heights broke ground already!?

Nice pics! 707 Forest is moving quickly and good to see Westin above ground!

Thx for the pics. I’m surprised too about Aspen Heights. I haven’t seen any articles about them breaking ground. But great to see construction on the site.

Not sure what this is for. The app says Phoenix, but the location is actually Tempe in the parking lot off Farmer just North of 5th St and close to Macayo's. So may be relevant to the towers that are proposed on the Macayo lot or is something proposed in the parking lot adjacent to Farmer?

https://www.google.com/maps/place/33%C2%B025'35.0%22N+111%C2%B056'38.5%22W/@33.4263934,-111.9462165,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d33.4263889!4d-111.9440278

Cool! It sounds like a crane app for The Beam (5 story, "wooden" office building and parking garage).

Thanks for the info. So, this is it: https://thebeamtempe.com/

Will be neat to see this type of construction (exposed timber).

I'm curious why they need a 150' crane, maybe a mobile crane for the assembly/take down of the tower crane, but it'll be nice to see that go up.

I'm guessing they are going a little higher on these crane apps than they need to for whatever reasons. Thunderbird ASU submitted a crane app was for 193', but the finsihed crane is only about 100'.

Tower crane base in place at 707 Forest/Trinitas:

https://i.imgur.com/v2AtsNOh.jpg

Nice!

The Park

https://imgur.com/a/ouoxEMv

https://i.imgur.com/avsBPUH.jpg

The Park

https://i.imgur.com/mxywOVe.jpg

Crossroads

https://i.imgur.com/BaPtE9H.jpg
ISTB7

https://i.imgur.com/B801PrO.jpg

This picture is from the Novus Innovation Corridor Facebook page.

Holy jebus that garage is huge.

You should see the garage they put up for the Cavasson project up in North Scottsdale. Its just about larger than the 5 story building they are putting up...

Any plans to use some of it as a Park and Ride for the Rural & University LRT stop across the street?

The picture is a little dated because I believe Aspen Heights has a garage going up as part of that development. That garage though is suppose to service the hotel, eventually three office buildings, supplemental retail parking and I am sure University parking as well. So I can understand why it's so massive to make the parking requirements attractive to prospective office tenants....plus they can rake it in during football season.

Is that the Pier finally poking above ground off in the distance finally?!!?

Pier One
 

Yes, some guy and his children are making it happen should be done by 2030.

Well, progress is progress! lol

https://i.imgur.com/KqjFeP8.jpg

The backside of Mirabella is looking good.

WeWork opened at Watermark:

https://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/...coworking.html

They apparently already have a subtenant taking an entire floor, although they wouldn't disclose the tenant. And they have fruit water!

DRC packet for Eastline Village, the much-ballyhooed "no cars" development:

https://www.tempe.gov/Home/ShowDocument?id=79729

https://www.tempe.gov/Home/ShowDocument?id=79731

https://www.tempe.gov/Home/ShowDocument?id=79733

https://www.tempe.gov/Home/ShowDocument?id=79735

https://www.tempe.gov/Home/ShowDocument?id=79737

"No car Development"

it LITERALLY has a parking lot.

I believe the parking lot is for the employees and customers of the commercial component and not the residents. The "no car" part really refers to the residential component, but to market or refer to the whole project as such is misleading.