Speaking of ASU/UA Downtown and the BioMedical campus more specifically. Apparently the
Southwest HIV/AIDS Center has bought the former Channel 12 building adjacent to Hance Park.
This of course is very bad news because if Hance Park is ever to succeed, the Channel 12 building has to be demolished. It blocks off the park from any views in or out, and completely conceals the parks existence from the LRT station at Roosevelt. The City needs to get that land and expand the park, especially since a lot of amenities (restaurants, cafes, a bike shop, etc) that would be good to put in the park can't be built actually on certain areas due to the tunnels weight capacity.
So am I crazy or wouldn't trying to get the Southwest HIV/AIDS Center on the BioMedical campus make a lot more sense? I wonder how difficult it would be for the City to do a land swap with the Center and take the Ch 12 parcel in exchange for some of the undeveloped BioMed land.
Didn't the City do a similar swap with Barron Collier when developing Steele Indian School Park?