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Originally Posted by azcats
That UofA building isn't anything really to write home about. Charlotte - half the size of Phoenix - has a really impressive skyline. This is the time to raid California and New York. Considering the local and state policies in those states - it wouldn't take much incentive to get them to relocate to Arizona.
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We have had this discussion many times.
1. Nobody was or is going to locate downtown until the area has cache and companies choose to pay premium to locate there. For now, we have to stick with smaller companies regardless.
2. expecting some major corporate HQ relocation to an expensive downtown urban location in the year of our lord Post-Covid IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN not anytime soon. We are still dealing with companies reorganizing around WFH
Once the current wave of apartments are open downtown and a its a fully established exciting place to be companies will move there. not before. You are thinking 20th century not 21st century.
the city of Phoenix could do much better at courting businesses downtown, but the city and city council does not care, they have interests all over the place and very few of them have to do with downtown. They Mayor can tout business development for political points in Desert ridge, Laveen, Deer Valley downtown is just one of many children from the Gov's perspective.
Most "new" post ww2 cities suffer the same fate. Downtown LA by all measures should have a skyline to rival NYC and Houston is about to surpass Chicago yet neither come close to either of those cities densities and skylines.
It simply does not work like that