Posted Jul 6, 2016, 5:27 AM
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Arizona Center Destroys?
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Originally Posted by Jjs5056
Upward Partners was indeed rumored to have been opening in the first incarnation of Union @Roosevelt (2008ish), before The Vig Fillmore. I do think MetroWest will look for, and find, really good, local businesses, and the square footage of the spaces along Roosevelt are perfect for boutiques and other small shops that are missing from Roosevelt/downtown in general.
This sounds like it will be a version of Oakville at Skyline. If you dropped "high-end," then I actually think that's exactly what downtown residents need vs. a mega-grocery store. A place with the essentials that is walkable and convenient enough to do multiple, small-purchase trips is more suited to downtown living. This should also be one of the hottest areas for retail with the mix of residents, students, guests, and employees nearby at RPoint, Proxxy, Linear, Skyline, ASU, Biomedical, Sheraton...
I say should because the shitty St. Croix and Arizona Center destroy 3rd Street and parts of Fillmore; ASU gave up on making Taylor into anything interesting; and, the Biomedical Campus snatched up the remaining land, ending the residential boom. Maybe an upscale grocer will spur development of a few remaining sites, and of course, the dream never dies that the new owner will develop or sell the northern part of AZ Center.
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What are you talking about? AZ Center is very nicely landscaped center and with more people moving downtown I will be surprised if it doesn't do well and bring in a better mix of restaurants and shop. You seem to have very unrealistic ideas about what downtown Phoenix should be or will be. I think the city is on the right track with the medical campus and the ASU Campus. Were you around when that part of town had a rat invested Ramada Inn and basically nothing else? I look at the downtown of the 90's and what we have now and a lot of people have put some blood, sweat and tears into what we have now and quite frankly I think with what they have had to deal with they have done a hell of a job.
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