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Originally Posted by combusean
A 7 story commercial use in the middle of a single-story residential neighborhood is about as out of place as you can get for Phoenix.
Edit: is it at Garfield (where there's a big vacant lot) or Van Buren? 11th St and Van Buren would be fine and a major improvement.
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Van Buren. In the Garfield neighborhood, but not on Garfield Street.
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Originally Posted by downtownphxguy12
HOTEL AT 11 st and Van Buren
Traffic coming into neighborhood, and they wanted to make a requirement that they hire from within the neighborhood. I signed mostly because the petitioner was cute.
Actutually i am kind of a property rights guy (if they meet zoning....) but it is still good to have discussions with neighbors.
I asked her if she lived and neighborhood and she said no, she was from tempe.
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Those reasons sounds so flimsy that I wonder if there's something else going on here. The cute petitioner said she lived in Tempe and mentioned that there's already another hotel nearby. Pure speculation, but I wonder if by any chance an existing hotel is orchestrating an astroturf campaign to keep a potential competitor away. The usual naysayers typically rely on online petitions and other forms of slacktivism. Canvassing door-to-door seems like a more organized effort requiring some money behind it.
Edited to add another bit of overnight speculation: I wonder also if a union representing hotel workers might be behind the petition. Sometimes, a union will create friction for a business as a way of applying pressure to hire union labor or accept union demands.