Interestingly, Chico Malo just revised its menu. Tacos are no longer emphasized as much, and prices are lower on some items. The restaurant actually has a lunch special now with three items for $10. I guess the owners finally figured out that they had set initial prices too high, especially with every little thing being a la carte.

McDonald's is the finest fake cuisine anywhere! :tup:

:P

Genuwine Arizona is the name of the wine bar coming to Union @ Roosevelt. Another establishment to look forward to opening this fall!

Well according to article from AZ Central, Leoni's is no longer opening there, bummer. But looks like still in downtown, however.

Thanks for the update. Hopefully it stays open late into evening, need some more nightlife activity in that corner.

That article reminded me of an interesting story; my business partner has been to breadfruit two times and both times the following morning amex called him saying his card had been compromised and they'd canceled the account. Could have been a giant coincidence but he found it fairly bothersome.

EXCLUSIVE: Warehouse District building could become entertainment spot after sale
 

An opportunity here for the west end of Jackson St and hopefully developer chooses retail/entertainment options versus creative office space.

Some tidbits from article since behind paywall: https://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/...ld-become.html

^^Great news!

There's an article from June about 10 E Jackson St being bought and renovated for shops and entertainment. Would be cool if Jackson organically could become a clubbing and bar street like the long dead project Jackson Street Entertainment District proposed.

"With four store fronts and possibly up to five business opportunities because of an included basement, plans for that building could include a barbershop, a private karaoke booth bar, a speakeasy, a distillery and new restaurant concepts from prominent local restaurateurs, Jannenga said.

Another tech company could also move in as Jannenga explores multiple possibilities with the demand for tech companies wanting to be downtown. SaaS Industries also is planned to eventually move into 10 E. Jackson, with more information announced on the new startup soon.

A micro mixed-use concept is planned, similar to Fox Restaurant Concepts’ the Yard in both Phoenix and Tempe and Upward Projects’ renovated restaurants and areas around town."

https://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/...-historic.html

airomero83, if you use the chrome browser, go to this link and add this extension I created a few months back.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...cgoalpkcfhgcnd

When you are on a Biz Journal page, click the extension and it will allow you to view the entire article. After you've clicked the extension once, you shouldn't have to ever click it again. As long as you keep the extension in your chrome browser extensions, you are good to go.

Yes I remember that article! And across from this building is The Brickhouse. Hopefully both these moves increases interest into bringing it back to life and then this little intersection can get interesting.

crwhiteinaz - Yes but my work computer won't allow it ;)

Chatted with a friend who is the main cog of the American arm of the company doing enhance, he said they are in the process of buying Los Olivos car wash and have everything in line for phase 2 at enhance but can't decide what to do. He wants to do something more up market rather than more of the same product. He says they are absolutely against doing apartments and thinks that market is too saturated and is going to pop, sounded like they're ready to go as soon as a decision is made.

He did not know what they will do with the Los Olivos lot.

That is good news on enhance phase 2!

Funny, when you mentioned Los Olivos car wash i was thinking the clean freak car wash at grand and 7th ave. Seems like that would be nice lot to develop.

How big is enhance phase 2? Taller? similar size? Is phase 3 still in the pipe?

He doesn't know how big because he doesn't know what they want to build yet. The city has given them the green light, though. He said they blew through the studios in a week and I said why not build high end studios, he stared blankly at me like I had boogers or something.

I'm not going to start an online petition or anything silly like that, but I will miss Los Olivos. It's a good quality wash without aggressive upselling.

I have never had many complaints there, decent job at a price you'd expect to pay at a downtown location. I just can't fathom how big a pay day they are getting, would be hard to justify selling a business that is so consistently busy.

That's for sure. Unless I get there right at opening time, it's usually a long wait just to drive up to the vacuums and get things started.

Yes, Los Olivos carwash would be a big loss. Not good.

If you or anyone you know is looking to lease 480,000 square feet, Central Arts Plaza (formerly known as Viad Tower) is looking for tenants for their 20-story second phase, which if ever built would probably be a world record between constructed phases of a tower complex...

http://www.costar.com/costarconnect/...sCostar=Costar

Hadn't seen this one posted before. No renderings. Bonus points for those who find one.

Lol ! Can you even count it a phase 2 at this point?

I would assume / hope that it would have the same curvature as the first tower.