Westward Ho
(sure old-timers, it may be your time now- but just wait till your lease is up!)
Lisa G's
The beloved Ice House
(Home of the Contact Design event)
I started with my favorite item at the event; the pillar of titty:
Some of the treasured historic buildings:
Former Mercado/ Symington bust (ASU got the steal of a lifetime)
circa 1900
Our favorite!
Chase Field (BOB)
Bad Ass Warehouse building
Trombetta vs Stadium Lofts
Bently Galleries
Summit at Copper Square kicking some ass
Fate; everything Downtown Phoenix stands for!
(fit with dj spinning from the rafters)
Fillmore Palms:
Produce Lofts one day?
Summit Killing it
El Fresnal (could be a restored hip botique Grocery store in time)
Bad ass Studios 5c
Campaige Place (cheap rents heyoo)
Classic Central underpass
The greatest building in all of Copper Square and I hope it gets rennovated and preserved one day!
PSP, where the homeless roam (but let's fight RED for trying to change that!)
Retail opportunities
PSP yucky yucky uck!
Why not Lofts?
Old fire escapes
Endless potential
Beautiful Luhrs Building
Yucky yuck spit yuck
ASU making it's presence felt:
Bye bye old laundromat! make room....
Opportunities, opportunities
Ultra Modern Drip
Copperstar Coffee
Catalina Row (Beadleview)
Cosmo sign/ 215 E McKinley in background
Old Town Scottsdale Hotel Valley Ho from the insides:
mmmm.... concrete....
Tempe Town Lake at night is something spectacular!
-especially if Light rail lights up each time the trains go by...
Hotel San Carlos Downtown Phoenix:
(totally enough room to put that little glass tower in there! )
Royal Coffee; architect Hays McNeil of plusminus studio working the counters
(he deserves a Phoenix medal of honor for his devotion to the city)
The Orpheum (remodel of the 1920's Title & Trust building)
Tempe the Onyx lot is wrapped:
And Onyx's little neighbor Northshore :
Scottsdale- W hotel getting closer!
(I think I have deja-vu from last thread)
Tempe- Mosaic lot:
Tempe- Mill Avenue bridge at night:
Old Town- Loloma 5 (Bruder done right):
ASU Tempe from street
Old Town Scottsdale views from an up coming Loft project:
And 44 Monroe from US Bank building:
11 Monroe Bruder revamp Downtown:
JimInCal- did that suffice?
(sure old-timers, it may be your time now- but just wait till your lease is up!)
Hahaha, that's the greatest! And everyone should have a titty lamp.
Awesome pics, it was so nice seeing all the new stuff, it'll be cool to see all the stuff in person in Dec. Where is that Copper State Coffee place, it looks awesome.
Joel... I laughed, I cried, I got a little aroused (4th pic from the top), so yeh that did the trick Tremendous tour de force my friend!
I gotta think you're right about the Westward Ho. That will be too valuable of a property for it's current use when the DT condo/loft market heats up for real.
Yuck, spit, patui, puke, spew, barf PSP... come on Cityscape!
Damn, killin' it like the Summit... great job and one hell of a comprehensive thread. From small warehouses downtown to scottsdale tempe and copper star coffee!!
jvbahn, the copper star coffee is on 7th Ave north of Indian School (Melrose) next to the nice, quaint, huge-treed Woodlea neighborhood.
And I HATE the bruder deal on that building DT. It looks totally half finished, and not to mention the lights cant be seen from further than a block away.
I put them in the City photos too-
I just thought it's be easier for the mountain west guys to see them here....
-I will continue to get pics of these places and post....
I am fortunate enough to have a cool job that allows me the flexibility to tour the City each month. (It is always kinda funny if I have a client that I am showing Lofts to- I try to stay professional while snapping 100 pics of the place!) (Excuse me, could you jump out of the way for a second so I can get this shot? mthaaanks...)
If any of you ever want a private tour of Camelview I'll be living there in about 10 days.... shoot me a pm
Regarding my fascination for all things Modern and MidCentury Modern alike:
I wanted to tell some of you that don't have the wallet for some of these $300 a square foot Lofts- find midcentury buildings and gut them and "create your own equity".
Myself and many of friends have gone this route- find the coolest 50-60's building (usually they are a little blighted, but beautiful in their own way) (examples: The Caribbean, Martinique, Aphrodisiac, Granada)
After you put in some serious sweat equity and some good ebay maneuvers for appliances and fixtures and some IKEA cabinets and concrete or cesar stone countertops- the place is just as rich in character as a new construction Loft but you are only in say $175 a square foot.... and then the word gets out and slowly but surely that community starts to radically improve. You can skimcoat the non-block walls, sandblast the block walls.... grind and seal concrete floors.... the only thing you cannot fix is the ceiling height and exterior of the community.
I have pics of these kinds of things if anyone is ever interested in going this route.... I am a big fan of say Postino, Drip, Copper Star.... you can mimic these models in residential and have a bachelor pad from hell....
plus you are supporting adaptive re-use!
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You know, as much trouble as the Garage Mahal gets around here (and deservedly so) I don't think its the 'worst' garage downtown. To me, that honor goes to the garage just East of the Chase Tower. It creates a huge dead zone in what should be the heart of downtown, it separates the Arizona Center/Convention Center/Herberger area from all the exciting development happening on Roosevelt. Hopefully that thing will be knocked over one day and replaced by a tower w/ a garage pedestal.
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Tremendous tour de force my friend! 
(Excuse me, could you jump out of the way for a second so I can get this shot? mthaaanks...)
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