Anyone hear of this?

There's a proposal for a 19-story building on the Circles Records on Central site. Now, I'm not sure if it's just the tiny lot on the north side of the building, but I don't think so. Perhaps it will be where they salvage the architectural elements of the building outside and gut the interior to build up.

http://pdf.leeazmail.com/pdfs/Circle...%20Central.jpg

Owner is listed as: Singer Holdings, Leonard Singer, 6665 N Mountain View Dr Paradise Valley AZ 85253
Project point of contact is: CCBG Architects, http://www.ccbg-arch.com/index2.html

CCBG architects are great! I was fortunate enough to have taken a course by one of their principals...Everyone should look at their 3 story office on Buchanan. He described their design approach to fit in with the industrial nature of the neighborhood while still being comp temporary. I have no doubt their proposal will look good.

I'd rather keep the circle records building and build something on the small parking lot. Actually, I'd be OK with replacing the north half of the existing building, but the south half on the actual corner is great and should stay.

So 300 units at NEC Central and Fillmore and just up the street, another 300+ units at 19 stories at NWC Central and McKinley??? Wow going up Central is going to look awesome :D

Anyone having flashbacks to 2007 when everyone was proposing a highrise?

bring em on!!!!!

Luckily not everyone is proposing high-rises but mid rises, And most of them are underway so if there is some sort of market correction we wont be left with blue balls at least.

Isnt the S/SWC of central and Roosevelt the Radio Station?

Yep, and the 80's too.

814 is the building just north of the parking lot of circles,

CCBG website has renderings of iluminate and linear

Yeah, when ended up getting several like 44 Monroe, stadium condos, Sheraton, cityscape etc.

And so glad we got all those!!!!!

this sounds amazing! :tup: any idea when we might hear more about this?

Per the plan review for the Circles on Central project, #15-2742, of which there is only this review.

So part of it is getting demolished, another part will live on.

Incidentally, I'm baffled at the constant typos in these permits.

Oh yes, memories of my junior and senior years at high school. I would rush to the library computers during lunch to look at the updates. I remember watching 44 Monroe, the Sheraton, and Summit all going up at the same time and who can forget when the doomed tallest building in Arizona was announced at CityScape. The cranes were everywhere downtown!

Given the demonstrated unreliability (and obvious typos) of the ABI report that I posted, I'm going to call it and say the 300 apartments I posted about earlier on Central and Fillmore is the same project as the Circles on Central project a block north. The DU is too close and I'm having too much difficulty actually conceptualizing 300 units on a downtown block because it's too much space for too few units at the types of construction that ought to pencil out.

I also see no permits whatsoever for the 600 (Fillmore) N block of Central and 1st St.

I hate that one paper can screw so much of the discussion up--but I suppose that's what a board dedicated to the fruits of everything from rumor to city permits to a half finished concrete shell to a certificate of occupancy should expect.

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As we all have said, wouldn't it be great to keep the Circle Records building and add to it. This would be a truly great project to see come to fruition!!!! Can't wait to see renderings!!!!!! (Fingers crossed)

I'm gonna bet that the north half of Circles will be razed, as it almost looks like two conjoined buildings from Google Earth. I could be wrong about that.

Just checked out the proposed area and there's a pretty small gap between the buildings, so I don't see how they could build a tower without taking something down...either that, save the shell and build around it. There's a Colliers For Sale sign on the South Circle Records building and several For Rent signs on the north building, so not sure if all these retail spaces would be saved or incorporated into the proposed tower. Hopefully, they can be.