Farmer's Market Moving
 

The Farmer's Market is being moved to 720 North Fifth Street starting May 7th with this Saturday as the last one at the current location. I anticipate this move is due to the proposed tower at the current site and pending demolition of adjacent buildings to the Farmer's Market. No news in the article on the proposed development though.

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/rest...ation-13517757

This feels very aspirational. Being at the end of the LR is a negative, not a positive. No one wants to ride the LR downtown from Metrocenter when it takes 30mins plus wait time when you could drive it in 15. Perhaps I'm too cynical.

The whole extension to Northwest has been a fail so far IMO. Communities along 19th Ave hate it. It hasn't done much for development so far except the new fast food restaurants like Chic Fila and Chipotle are car oriented and have no dining rooms because of LR traffic. I think they would have been better off keeping it on Camelback and extending to Grand Canyon to connect them but I'm sure Sparky had something to do with killing that idea.

I'm glad you noticed.

Cool Renderings
 

There's this cool video from Shepley Bulfinch's LinkedIn profile that shows renderings from their recent projects just scroll down to the first video from 3 weeks ago as of this post.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/shepley-bulfinch

Nice thanks for sharing!

McKinley Green is going to be such an amazing project can't wait. Also, noticed Phase 3 of The Link is the tallest of the bunch. Was this always supposed to be the case?

Roosevelt Yacht Club still a thing...plus a new building where the old Atari Hotel was supposed to go...

Good find! Some notes of interest:

:24 mark: Just before the proposed Yacht Club, you'll see a 10-11 floor high-rise that I think is currently in development. I found a project called "Rainbow Road Apartments" that is at this location that I am waiting for more information on.

1:00 mark: First McKinley is going to be a good-looking development! Can't wait to see this one move.

2:26 Mark: Hell yea!!! Our first real look at Link 3 that looks to be at about 400'! That top looks awesome! Finally something not flat at the top! :cheers:

At 0:45 in the video, I noticed that in the background of Roosevelt Yacht Club was a building which I think meant be Davis Experience’s Creative House Project.

https://thedavisexperience.com/project/creative-house

First Mckinkey looks amazing. I hope that colorful art design on the east side is somewhat lit at night.

Unfortunately, the spot in the video that is showing possible Creative House is being used for Federales Tacos. I'm not sure if Creative House is still on the boards or not. That's been on Davis's site for about 5 years now...maybe more.

Wow, is that third Link tower going to be taller yet?! I though that was supposed to be the shortest one.

I mentioned it a couple times awhile back, but I will explain Link 3 for those who missed it.

The third tower is NOT the 19-story tower. The towers approved height and density are tied to the parcel on the lot, not the phase in which they are built.

The original Phase 3, 19-story tower was increased in height to 27-stories and built second due to an approved reduction in the parking ratio requirement.

The remaining parcel (originally Phase 2) is still approved as the 25-story tower, but if they apply the same parking ratio reduction amendment, it would allow them to increase the density of units and the tower would grow from 25 to the 30-36-story range depending on the unit mix. Tower 2 has a higher mix of 3BR and 4BR units which is why it increased in height so much. Tower 3 will probably have a mix closer to Tower 1 with more 1BR and 2BR units which affects the ratios. From what I have been told, most likely they will land somewhere in the 31-33-story range, and with the pitched roof shown in the video, it would make the height somewhere around 380'.

I managed to actually get a decent view from the downtown ASU campus cam today. You can see on the right where everything has been cleared and graded for the Central Station project and I believe that's the Moontower crane to the right of Derby.

https://i.postimg.cc/XYTBxy2H/1651456997242blob.png

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...16bbc05a_b.jpg

Drove by the 14-story Scottsdale and Bell site yesterday and they removed all the signage from the building and have a construction fence all the way around the perimeter. Assuming the demolition of the existing building is eminent, and the developers website says construction is anticipated to begin 4Q 2022.

^ Nice! For anyone that needs a reminder: https://www.phoenix.gov/pddsite/Docu...Z/Z-12-21n.pdf

Updated Pics
 

Here are some updated pics from my ventures this weekend!

https://imgur.com/gallery/3zllMZp

P.S. I saw a piece of paper on a unit at the Arizona Center for ‘The Rose Theater’ and permit number 22011058. Wasn’t able to pull anything up on the PDD search since I don’t know the permit type. Maybe someone else is more familiar with that system to pull the details.

It appears the Goldwater Institute will continue to fight the GPLET tax break

Seems very weird to me that they continue to fight for a tax hike LMAO when there's been obviously a massive boost to downtown with this tax break but you'd think there's a 1000 other more important wastes of tax money going they could take on over this.

Bramley Paulin is the same individual that sued the City of Phoenix for not releasing public records for Footprint Center's renovation...and we all know who Matt is.

DVC Monthly Meeting Agenda for this Saturday contains an item where they will be discussing the proposed tower at 1500 N Central Ave. (SWC of Central and McDowell)

Hopefully we get to see some renderings :cheers:

Awesome! Hope to see a potential grocer in this one!

Or a pharmacy to replace the CVS on the other side of the street, making another great redevelopment lot.