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Originally Posted by combusean
Tho I will say this: Some of the stuff that will be coming online in Scottsdale like The Moderne (Portales and Goldwater) and Broadstone Waterfront (Via Soleri and Goldwater) are actually annoying for their anti-urban qualities despite their downtown location. It's like the 1980s never stopped there.
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Alliance is really an awful developer. They've yet to develop one truly urban project, and their two planned projects (Broadstone Arts District and 3rd & Roosevelt) are just as poorly designed. This is the Midtown project (McDowell and Alvarado):
3rd & Roosevelt is especially frustrating as it requires bulldozing the Canvas building and the Bodega 420 house, yet has large "arts plazas" all around a stumpy 4-story building. With 20' sidewalks, there's absolutely no need for additional concrete space that will sit empty 29 days of the month. There's literally nothing but concrete planned for the area that Paz currently sits.
3RD & Roosevelt will displace at least 4 potential retail spaces, and though it will have a massive frontage along Roosevelt, the site plan shows a tiny bit of retail near 5th Street, large enough for maybe 1 restaurant in each. The rest of Roosevelt is lined with what has to be the largest leasing center in the world. Combined with iLuminate and Linear's empty ground levels, there's going to be a huge hole in the center of RRow.
A project that can be added to the list is
504 Roosevelt by Eric Brown. It's moving through zoning variances, and will be a 3-story mixed use infill on the corner of 5th St/Roosevelt adjacent to Artisan Village. This is a perfect example of the kind of building that is needed in the small vacant parcels scattered throughout the area south of Roosevelt. Ground level has retail, which Brown has always been able to lease, with 10 apartments above.
http://www.tomecakdesign.com/