I'm going to just get straight to my point. Phoenix, Arizona has a rather short stretched out skyline that is..O-K. And for being the 5th biggest city in the U.S. And a poppulaion of well over 2 million, their skyline isnt keeping up.
Now along with that, downtown phoenix has a HUGE number of empty lots. Phoenix should add more to their skyline by building affordable medieum wealth highrise apartments or studio apartments. Also building something to attract tourists and entertain people living in Phoenix like AN AMUSMENT PARK!!!
Phoenix really does need an amusment and/or water park. It would attract more tourists resulting in more buisness for hotels, car rentals, the airport, and public transportation! Imagine how awesome it would be to have a Amusment Park/Water park in downtown Phoenix! Theres a really big lot just south of downtown. It would also make the ASU students living downtown very happy imsure, and coming from a 15 year old trust me. Everyone would want to go to this park as long as it has decent thrill rides, rollercoasters, and a classic big old ferris wheel!
Needing a amusment park is just one problem, but as said before so is the skyline of Pheonix. Its a little bit under O-K right now, and i love this city i love it alot but i just think it could use more 30-50 storie buildings. Its sad how alot of beautiful projects have been cancelled, click here to see the cancelled ones.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=74733
Phoenix needs to start building up instead of building out.