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Originally Posted by DevilsRider
Heading west on 6th Street, you won't even be able to see the garage until you're right on top of it, as ASUSunDevil noted  
Only a small portion of the garage is not wrapped by apartments. Will create a lame view from West 6th, but otherwise looks fine. Definitely looks WAY too short viewed from 6th Street, but actually looks decent scale from 5th and 3rd. West 6th just still stand out so much.
I sort of wish Tempe had considered closing off 6th again here, just west of Maple, as they do by City Hall. Would have created a good opportunity for additional retail fronting a large plaza space with no vehicular conflict for pedestrians. Lost opportunity...
There is at least one clear garage entrance on Maple as well, and could be as many as three (it's still too soon to tell for sure). I wish they had placed these on the west side instead (accessing onto the Courtyard Marriott parking rather than onto Maple). Oh well.
And the obligatory Marina Heights photo, this time from the north side of the lake at sunrise.
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Thanks for the photos and more explanation. I completely agree that there was a lost opportunity to do something at 6th/Maple or 6th/Ash to complement the retail plaza built over at West 6th. That would've been the benefit of one developer designing the entire buildout of the remaining Centerpoint lots, as I am sure they would've created a complementary plaza or abandoned 6th Street to create a courtyard as you envision.
Hanover could have certainly asked for an abandonment - it wasn't really a City 'thing' to reopen the street. I like having the street open, but just wish there was more than a suburban hotel and garage entries on the north side of the street.