Tempe Development Thread - Page 572

muertecaza · #**11421** Posted **Sep 5, 2023, 10:00 PM**

Looks like working on floor 22, with 23 and 24 still to go. Thankfully the jokes about their snail's pace can continue for a few years while they work on the interiors.

muertecaza · #**11422** Posted **Sep 5, 2023, 10:24 PM**

Can't remember this being posted, but here's the zoning sign for the new proposal for the College Bookstore lot on College:

azsunsurfer · #**11423** Posted **Sep 6, 2023, 12:00 AM**

Nice find because originally that proposal I think was going to be a 9 story building so it looks like they upped the density!

combusean · #**11424** Posted **Sep 6, 2023, 3:07 AM**

I seem to remember it was going to be an office building.

In any event, 12 stories doesn't really seem buildable there. There's literally no reason to not build to the maximum allowable height once you commit to concrete and steel. Other developers have repeatedly pulled that off so I suppose these guys are just piddling around or otherwise don't know what they're doing, especially after a miss trying to build office there.

IndyAZ · #**11425** Posted **Sep 6, 2023, 3:32 AM**

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Originally Posted by combusean

I seem to remember it was going to be an office building.

In any event, 12 stories doesn't really seem buildable there. There's literally no reason to not build to the maximum allowable height once you commit to concrete and steel. Other developers have repeatedly pulled that off so I suppose these guys are just piddling around or otherwise don't know what they're doing, especially after a miss trying to build office there.

Not sure what you mean by not being "buildable"?

It's going to be all residential with ground floor restaurant/retail space. Two levels of underground parking as well. They are building to the max they can get ASU to agree to, since ASU has some jurisdiction over the property due to the adjacency to campus and they must buy off on design AND height. I think the current height/floor count is more than ASU originally wanted. Unfortunately ASU is hindering anything tall from being built there, they might cause problems for the 28-story next door too.

ASU Diablo · #**11426** Posted **Sep 8, 2023, 6:15 PM**

I don't remember seeing renderings for this project. 7-story apartment project taking over the Sleep Inn & Suites on Apache.

https://azbex.com/planning-development/new-student-housing-project-planned-in-tempe/

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The Tempe City Council is scheduled to vote this week on a new 189-unit student housing development from Aptitude Development on 1.4 acres at 1057 E. Apache Blvd.

The Marshall at Tempe will remove an existing 72-room hotel currently occupying the site and replace it with a seven-story mid-rise, mixed-use, student-focused apartment community, according to documents on file with the City of Tempe.

The developer is requesting a design review, General Plan amendment, rezoning and Planned Area Development overlay to allow the project’s construction.

According to documents submitted to the City of Tempe, the planned unit mix breaks down as 20 studios, 12 one-bedroom, 83 two-bedroom, 15 three-bedroom, and 59 four-bedroom units for a total of 479 beds. A total of 316 parking spaces is planned. To round out the proposal’s mixed-use appeal, the development will also include 1.6KSF of commercial/retail space.

azsunsurfer · #**11427** Posted **Sep 9, 2023, 6:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by ASU Diablo

I don't remember seeing renderings for this project. 7-story apartment project taking over the Sleep Inn & Suites on Apache.

https://azbex.com/planning-development/new-student-housing-project-planned-in-tempe/

This was already discussed a few pages back....

ASU Diablo · #**11428** Posted **Sep 11, 2023, 3:47 PM**

Skye Tempe (27 stories) was approved. Was a little worried about this one due to its proposed height. Does anyone remember the final height number?

https://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news...uncil-approves-plans-500-apartments.html

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Tempe City Council has approved hundreds of new apartment units, part of a prominent multifamily tower to be built.

In separate actions on Sept. 7, Council approved a resolution for The Marshall at Tempe and an ordinance for Skye Tempe. The two mixed-use developments will bring on 189 and 281 units, respectively, after being heard for the second time.

The Marshall, which will be seven stories tall, will be developed by New Jersey-based Aptitude Development and is planned for 1057 E. Apache Boulevard to redevelop a 72-key Sleep Inn & Suites near Arizona State University. The 27-story Skye Tempe at 780 S. Myrtle Ave. would be among the tallest buildings in Tempe once developed by Chicago-based Hubbard Street Group.

The tallest building currently in the city of Tempe is the West 6th Street Apartments. Those buildings consist of two towers, which are 22 and 30 stories tall.

combusean · #**11429** Posted **Sep 11, 2023, 4:10 PM**

Skye has a structure height of 300' and a parapet height of 286' which is par for the course in Tempe. The structure height of buildings aren't supposed to breech the 300' limit (but they occasionally do apparently).

https://www.tempe.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/102557/638216421491430000

Mr.RE · #**11430** Posted **Sep 11, 2023, 6:05 PM**

New project submitted for 300 units at 200' in height at 1020 e apache blvd (the motel 6 between Rise Apache & Apollo). Was only a matter of time before this happened. A lot of density coming for that area.

combusean · #**11431** Posted **Sep 11, 2023, 7:35 PM**

That height and density doesn't seem realistic there if you look at the comments for what Marshall went through. I would hope the DRC sees that as basically the last of those kinds of parcels on that stretch where the height and density makes sense tho and approves it.

I note the owner of the parcel also owns the stretch of apartments on the south side of Lemon which seem just ripe for redevelopment as well.

TJPHXskyscraperfan · #**11432** Posted **Sep 11, 2023, 8:28 PM**

The transformation of Apache Blvd over the past few years is incredible!!! And now even Mesa is getting a lot of development downtown. Maybe we will even start seeing this along 19th Ave in Phoenix up to Metro Center!

combusean · #**11433** Posted **Sep 11, 2023, 10:18 PM**

^ I was hanging out at ASU with my dad and mentors in the 1990s and we took Apache into the office. I remember when the big things on Apache were making the Desert Rest motel sign code compliant and building the fire station there. I credit hanging out on Mill in its heyday (Harkins, Coffee Plantation, Trails, Changing Hands, etc) and the building of the Brickyard as what really kicked off this urban hobby.

DesertRay · #**11434** Posted **Sep 12, 2023, 1:25 AM**

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Originally Posted by combusean

I credit hanging out on Mill in its heyday (Harkins, Coffee Plantation, Trails, Changing Hands, etc) and the building of the Brickyard as what really kicked off this urban hobby.

People watching at the Coffee Plantation, etc. on Mill was what hooked me into my urban hobby as well.

muertecaza · #**11435** Posted **Sep 12, 2023, 9:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by azsunsurfer

Also Mill Creek has broken ground on that 7 story apartment building south of Rio Salado near Hardy.

Those Mill Creek apartments are going full bore. And the Shop Beer Co. expansion next door is looking really good.

Mr.RE · #**11436** Posted **Sep 12, 2023, 10:42 PM**

New 5-story apartment being proposed for 1115 e lemon street. Another older apartment complex bites the dust. That whole area will be redeveveloped in the next 5-7 years. Those remaining 2-story apartments on lemon are living on borrowed time...

combusean · #**11437** Posted **Sep 12, 2023, 10:44 PM**

I thought a 4 story building would be one of the last to go. Hell I remember when that was the tallest building in the area.

azsunsurfer · #**11438** Posted **Sep 13, 2023, 5:32 PM**

So the four story building with the mural is going to be redeveloped? Hope it has some retail too near the Apache side.

asugrad · #**11439** Posted **Sep 14, 2023, 5:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by Mr.RE

New 5-story apartment being proposed for 1115 e lemon street. Another older apartment complex bites the dust. That whole area will be redeveveloped in the next 5-7 years. Those remaining 2-story apartments on lemon are living on borrowed time...

I lived across the street for 4 years and the owners said in about 2012 they would eventually build another apartment on the dirt lot they have on the backside. Could that be the proposal? or is it the whole lot?

combusean · #**11440** Posted **Sep 14, 2023, 5:19 PM**

Good add. That would make more sense, but that lot has a different address (1205 E Lemon vs the stated 1115 E Lemon) although they have the same owner.

I wonder if they're going to build on that lot and original parcel as part of a combination of lots (thus keeping the original address) and an addition.

Looking at the yelp reviews the place looks to have substantial deferred maintenance issues and at 52 years old I actually do see them tearing it down.