Phoenix Development News (3) - Page 821

Obadno · #**16401** Posted **Feb 4, 2020, 10:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chestnut1

Final building plans came in for the hotel located at the lot behind the Orpheum Lofts. Mortenson is the building contractor - they certainly have a good track record downtown.

Plan # LPRN 2008328 Issued 03-FEB-2020 Expires
Plan Description HYATT PLACE PHOENIX
Project 19-957 NEC 2ND AVENUE AND ADAMS
DESCRIPTION OF WORK: Existing surface parking lot to be redeveloped as an 8-story hotel. Hotel will consist of level 1 public space and
238 guest rooms on level 2-b. Building is 94' tall. WIth highest occupied level at 71'-6" from street elevation (non high-rise construction)

Well it will be a nice dense little block regardless.

Any renderings for this?

CrestedSaguaro · #**16402** Posted **Feb 4, 2020, 11:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by ASU Diablo

^^

such a disappointment...

Yep.

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Originally Posted by Obadno

Well it will be a nice dense little block regardless.

Any renderings for this?

Haven't seen anything. Hopefully better than Hampton Inn.

CrestedSaguaro · #**16403** Posted **Feb 5, 2020, 5:16 PM**

So we have 2 tower cranes going up today. ASU and Link 2. Skyline is going to look insane with all these cranes up!

Edit: Just the base for Link right now. Crane to go up mid-next week.

Obadno · #**16404** Posted **Feb 5, 2020, 6:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by RonnieFoos

So we have 2 tower cranes going up today. ASU and Link 2. Skyline is going to look insane with all these cranes up!

Edit: Just the base for Link right now. Crane to go up mid-next week.

And much more to come, Fillmore, Aspire, Derby, Palmcourt, Probably the mid-rise around Knipe House

somethingfast · #**16405** Posted **Feb 5, 2020, 6:10 PM**

Anyone live near DT and able to take some pics of the activity from a distance? Love to see them as I rarely get down there.

Phxguy · #**16406** Posted **Feb 5, 2020, 6:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by RonnieFoos

So we have 2 tower cranes going up today. ASU and Link 2. Skyline is going to look insane with all these cranes up!

Edit: Just the base for Link right now. Crane to go up mid-next week.

Was just about to post about the ASU crane! Went to the Post Office and saw the beauty being assembled

CrestedSaguaro · #**16407** Posted **Feb 5, 2020, 8:00 PM**

Not downtown, but more big development coming to City North.

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Hotel, Sam Fox restaurant to be part of massive north Phoenix development

By Corina Vanek and Brandon Brown – Phoenix Business Journal
Feb 5, 2020, 5:30am MST

The first phase of the City North development in Phoenix will feature multiple restaurants including one from high-profile restaurateur Sam Fox and a dual-branded hotel by real estate developer Brian Frakes.

Robert Flaxman, CEO of Crown Realty & Development, the master developer of City North and thousands of acres in north Phoenix, said Crown plans to sell 8 acres to Frakes’ company, Common Bond Development Group, as part of the deal. The parcel, which is in escrow to sell, is near 56th Street and a new street that will be called City North Boulevard.

Flaxman said the pad for the hotel and restaurants should be ready for delivery by July.

While still in preliminary planning stages, Frakes said his company will develop 22,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space and then will develop a dual-branded hotel that will have 240 rooms in total.

Frakes has signed on Fox Restaurant Concepts to open a large-format Blanco Tacos & Tequila in 10,000 square feet of the space. Common Bond is looking to identify two more quality restaurant and retail concepts to join the development.

The hotel will be branded, Frakes said, but he was not ready to announce what flags it will operate under. Frakes is helping Fox develop a boutique hotel in Phoenix’s Arcadia neighborhood, but said that project is different from what is being done at City North.

Construction on Common Bond’s retail and restaurant project is expected to start by the end of 2020 and be finished by the fall of 2021, Frakes said. The hotel will be done in the spring of 2022.

“We are a part of a greater sum,” Frakes said about all the development at City North. “There is so much going on up there. We believe it will be a city within a city.”

Frakes has previously developed several projects for Fox, including the Yard in Tempe, Gilbert and Tucson.

Fox sold his restaurant company, Fox Restaurant Concepts, to the Cheesecake Factory Inc. in July 2019 for $308 million. As part of the deal, FRC will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary and Fox will continue to lead the company.

Source: https://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/...f-massive.html

exit2lef · #**16408** Posted **Feb 5, 2020, 8:03 PM**

^The whole Desert Ridge / CityNorth area was supposed to become a lively destination circa 2007. Then, everything was delayed due to the real estate downturn. It will be interesting to see if those dreams can realized a decade-and-a-half later.

Obadno · #**16409** Posted **Feb 5, 2020, 8:07 PM**

Just took a spin around downtown for my lunch hour.

Everything is under construction, whole areas are totally snarled and blocked off because of it.

Sunsfan87 · #**16410** Posted **Feb 5, 2020, 8:26 PM**

Downtown Photo from a twitter account. What’s the patch of dirt being cleared out a few blocks north of the X Phoenix development? Is that where the O’Neil print shop was? https://mobile.twitter.com/fox10_nic...31117017096192

Phxguy · #**16411** Posted **Feb 5, 2020, 8:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by Sunsfan87

Downtown Photo from a twitter account. What’s the patch of dirt being cleared out a few blocks north of the X Phoenix development? Is that where the O’Neil print shop was? https://mobile.twitter.com/fox10_nic...31117017096192

Correct, a 7-8 story residential project is expected on this site.

CrestedSaguaro · #**16412** Posted **Feb 5, 2020, 8:37 PM**

This view is steadily changing over the years. Will be awesome when ASU and Aspire are built. Right now, the ASU crane is going up. https://www.phoenixvis.net/highres.aspx?site=came1

PHX31 · #**16413** Posted **Feb 5, 2020, 9:55 PM**

Broadstone Portland between 3rd St - 5th St north of Portland is definitely under construction, just checked today (I also noticed the ASU dorm crane going up).

Many pages back someone said it was going to be 4 story wood frame over 3 stories of concrete garage. Another forumer wondered if it was all at and above grade. From what I could tell there was at least a portion of at least one level below grade.

Obadno · #**16414** Posted **Feb 5, 2020, 10:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by PHX31

Broadstone Portland between 3rd St - 5th St north of Portland is definitely under construction, just checked today (I also noticed the ASU dorm crane going up).

Many pages back someone said it was going to be 4 story wood frame over 3 stories of concrete garage. Another forumer wondered if it was all at and above grade. From what I could tell there was at least a portion of at least one level below grade.

Are you talking about Broadstone or the ASU dorm? The ASU dorm is like 16 floors it will be as tall as the Valley Ho

The Broadstone I expect will look identical to the one across the street.

Code5 · #**16415** Posted **Feb 5, 2020, 11:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by Obadno

Well it will be a nice dense little block regardless.

Any renderings for this?

It should be a nice dense little block. Once this hotel is built and along with the
Ellis building being renovated and reopened as a restaurant/speakeasy right around the corner AND X-Phoenix there too, hopefully that increases the walkability around that area. It's so bland right now.

CrestedSaguaro · #**16416** Posted **Feb 6, 2020, 4:12 PM**

Anyone have access to this: (Arizona's biggest parking garage is under construction. Here's where): https://www.azcentral.com/story/mone...al/4641922002/

Granted it's a parking garage, but curious to read it. I'm guessing it's the Park Central garage?

ASU Diablo · #**16417** Posted **Feb 6, 2020, 4:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by RonnieFoos

Anyone have access to this: (Arizona's biggest parking garage is under construction. Here's where): https://www.azcentral.com/story/mone...al/4641922002/

Granted it's a parking garage, but curious to read it. I'm guessing it's the Park Central garage?

Yep that's it! Nothing interesting to add, stuff we already knew