Posted Sep 21, 2018, 10:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Phxguy
Here's the full article, Ronnie
Sunbelt Holdings Inc. and Crescent Bay Holdings are teaming to develop a 25-story condominium project in the former Jefferson Hotel, which was featured in Alfred Hitchock's movie "Psycho."
Plans call for developing about 200 units in a 25-story tower, but those numbers could change, said John Graham, president and CEO of Scottsdale-based Sunbelt Holdings Inc.
The project, to be called Jefferson Place, will cost more than $80 million to develop.
While a general contractor has not been selected, architect for the project is SmithGroup, Graham said.
The goal is to break ground before the end of 2019 and be open 18 months after that, Graham said.
Crescent bought the historic building from the city of Phoenix for $2.8 million a few years ago. The building originally opened in 1915, and the city later bought it in 1990.
The project will be similar to Portland on the Park, which Sunbelt Holdings developed at 200 W. Portland St. in Phoenix near Margaret T. Hance Park in downtown Phoenix.
Portland on the Park, 200 W. Portland St., is a 14-story condominium tower that has a handful of units left for sale. That 149-unit, 14-story tower has less than a handful of units left for sale, Graham said. Those units average about 1,400 square feet priced about $400 per square foot. Some cost more than $1 million.
Jefferson Place units most likely will be a bit bigger than those at Portland on the Park, Graham said. It also will feature a few units priced at more than $1 million.
Christine Mackay, economic development director for the city of Phoenix, said the historic building's facade will be preserved.
Some condos will be inside the Jefferson Hotel building while others will be in a newly constructed tower, she said.
"They are not allowed to demolish or alter the outside of the building so that it will stay in historic nature," she said.
The city has had a few false starts on redeveloping the property, also known as the Barrister building. A previous developer could not secure funding to build apartments.
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So basically this is just a PR job to tell the city they still intend to build. Start by the end of 2019?? No contractor? This is a joke. It won't happen. Shameful for Phoenix Business Journal to recycle this crap.
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