[southtucsonboy77]

We are nearing the 200 page. What's the best/worst rendering you've seen? what building do you think will age the best?
EDIT: what's the biggest excitement/disappointment?[/QUOTE]


Excitements: 1) Casino del Sol Hotel 2) Level 3) Unisource Tower

Disappointments: 1) Bourn-Thrifty Block Hotel 2) Convention Hotel 3) Cadence

I worked for the Tribe for over 7 years and the Casino Hotel was a project that my department got to work on. It was really exciting to build a tower in the Tucson region that was over 10 stories high. Very proud moment for the Tribe. Its beautiful. Level, for me, was a victory over the West University Neighborhood Association...the man...the evil NIMBY empire. Very hypocritical stances from them in my opinion. With Level moving forward, it made it possible for Park Ave and the Hub. Finally, Unisource Tower, with all its beauty (hahaha), displayed how a local business took notice of downtown and invested in it. A great gesture for downtown Tucson.

As for the disappointments...Bourn, well, self-explanatory. It's still vacant. The Sheraton Hotel was horribly planned out and out of scale. Like I posted several months ago, a more modest sized hotel with a modest amount of rooms divided by stages of hotel development would have been appropriate. It's amazing how the City and Rio Nuevo staff both screwed that up. The Cadence, ugh, drove by it yesterday evening and it looked stubby. I thought I would get over the drop of height/stories with the "at least something was built there" mentality...but I haven't. It just looks wrong...a missed opportunity for a truly wonderful "gateway" tower into downtown. AND the lame excuse of "we wanted to blend in and not overwhelm the adjacent neighborhoods" was a bunch of B.S. The more I rant on this the more I should put it as the #1 disappointment.