Here's an article from today in the Downtown Phoenix Weekly Insider:
THE STEWART HIGH RISE BLENDS OLD AND NEW IN ADAPTIVE REUSE OF THE CIRCLES BUILDING
JANUARY 26, 2018 BY FARA ILLICH
In the course of designing a building, sometimes a bit of opposition yields more thoughtful and interesting results in the long run.
This is true for the Circles building, according to Brian Cassidy, president of CCBG Architects, Inc., the design firm behind The Stewart:
https://www.facebook.com/liveatthestewart/ — a new 19-story high rise apartment in Downtown Phoenix.
The project adaptively reuses the showroom of a historic car dealership, the 1947 Stewart Motor Co., adding 312 one- and two-bedroom units in a tower above, and creates a total of 9,000 square feet of retail on the ground floor.
“The shapes are reminiscent of the original building with soft, streamlined, sweeping curves,” Cassidy said. “We’re still playing with the final colors, we won’t know for a few more months, but we hope it will be a lively, interesting building.”
When the Empire Group hired CCBG in 2015 to do a feasibility study on the property at Central Avenue and McKinley Street, the vision of a dense, transit-oriented development started to take shape. But not without some hiccups first.
Link to the full article:
http://dtphx.org/2018/01/26/the-stew...s-old-and-new/