Plan review filed for the little strip of land south of the Pyramid on Central that was discussed as for sale a while back. Plan Review document is short on details, describing a "mixed use office and residential building," but the name, "Central Containers" seems to imply another shipping container project.

https://i.imgur.com/Sp8XYpph.png

Nothing happening there the past few weeks I've driven by. No bulldozers, no front end loaders, nothing. :shrug:

Here's a close look at the facade on The Link. For some reason, it looks taller far away than up close.


https://i.imgur.com/r09iruk.jpg
West side



https://i.imgur.com/RbdpgkI.jpg
A lighter color on the west side


https://i.imgur.com/b1iTXHJ.jpg
North side

Thanks for the pictures. I hope the siding looks better once it's contrasted with the darker colored siding, windows and the green garage covering. As it stands right now it doesn't look great to me, but that could just be it being isolated against the unfinished building.

awesome pics - i think it's gonna look amazing. thanks for posting !

Not sure when you were going by there, but they've had construction going up until 2 Fridays ago. They are waiting on APS to remove the power lines which coincidentally are getting removed today.

I have a direct window view of the site from office, so I can confirm it is definitely not dead.

Biggus keeps us grounded when we all get ahead of ourselves and overly excited.

Good to know. I'd say once a week I take Central instead of 7th Avenue to work and I usually look over there. It's been a couple of weeks since I've seen so much as a vehicle on site.:shrug:

Yea, it has been very slow. But I see green vest moving around the site occasionally and a BobCat sometimes. With APS removing the power lines, they should start upping activity I'm sure.

Does anyone have any info on what is getting built South of I-17 between Central and to about 12th St? I drove by yesterday and noticed a lot of the old buildings there were razed and they are a lot of heavy construction equipment on site. Looks like a big project.

Big Flex/industrial project like 1 million squarefeet. Big improvement over the cement/gravel factory or whatever that was.

https://property.prologis.com/indust...stics_Center_2

https://property.prologis.com/flyers...r_Brochure.pdf

I saw a big lighted sign and lights on inside The Churchill last night when I was heading home from work. Is it open?

I respect Biggus' opinion. I expect we are of similar age and have been through the cycles of the industry. I think we are of similar careers also.

Thanks for the info. And yes, MUCH better.

It opens at the end of the month, Next weekend I think.

In residential real estate and remember the late 80s? ebbs and flows.

Have done residential. Let my license go in the early 2000's to work in my family's real estate investment company. Been on sabbatical for a year, going back to school to get my license again. Was around in the 80's.

I don't do any active sales work either. Keep my license for investing and in case a good opportunity presents itself.

Couple of shots of The Churchill, which I now know is opening at the beginning of next month. I look forward to checking it out. I got these last night.

https://i.imgur.com/uouJDEy.jpg


https://i.imgur.com/CQTKmF1.jpg

The Adams/Central project is beautiful; much improved over the 5-story Aloft from the boom days. It's less important that a tower there sticks out; it needs to bring the density/keys to support a really ped-friendly corridor heading to the Convention Center. Renaissance looks great, but left Monroe, 1st St, and Central with blank space and really, just renamed their former lobby bar along Adams. I believe the RFP requested or encouraged hotel or residential for the parcel.

Central > 2nd St is not intended to become a ped plaza, but to include infrastructure (a la College Ave) to turn it into a pedestrian zone for events, etc., in concert with the CC. I wish they'd somehow RFP the Hyatt and garage together so that there were two real uses toward 2nd, but for now, modernizing the garage, filling it (Phoenix Commons -dead?), and building out retail adjacent to the Hyatt is the only realistic option. I hate the new site plan of Renaissance Square; retail is succeeding on each block it fronts, and they are such prominent towers.

Any chance in hell Wells Fargo would ever be sold? A midrise retail/office building in place of the garage, a few retail bays in the tower, and an upscale restaurant building near Orpheum would be cool. On the opposite end, the plan should have been for phase 2 to replace Symphony Hall with a mirror project facing an unabandoned Adams Street that would hit a cluster of restaurants at 3rd Street and run directly into Heritage Square with hotel or museum/entertainment along 5th Street where the exposed parking and plaza are.