^^Good news about the BioMed. While the economy is in the pooper itll likely be the only thing we have to nerdily follow around here.
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Originally Posted by Leo the Dog
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I don't like parts of this map. Certain areas are just overdone/redundant. "Government" makes sense, as does "Warehouse". However, "BioMed" shouldn't be a separate region, it is part of the "Business Core" of DT. "Roosevelt" is interrupted by a huge man-made canyon, therefore, they should be completely separate. "Roosevelt" should also cross over Central to the East, create a Roosevelt corridor. "Business Core" includes the sports facilities, and "Light Rail Corridor" is just stupid. Lastly, "Park Neighborhoods", sounds great, like possibly a Central Park esque destination lurks down there, but we all know that those neighborhoods are ghettos/blighted dusty lots and will always remain that way because of the flight paths of Sky Harbor.
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I totally disagree, if you read the entire Urban Form PDF you'll see the way they've done it makes a lot of sense. The BioMed needs to be different than the Business Core, itll have different densities and a different look.
Its not as if the City is going to try to create a "Light Rail Corridor" neighborhood or expect anyone to use that phrasing, this is just for zoning purposes.
Id hope everyone would read the entire Urban Form document before levying any criticism, they did an excellent job.
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Originally Posted by glynnjamin
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I hate the map simply because they lump my home in with Van Buren.
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Well I think the stigma of Van Buren has already begun to shift a bit in the last 5 years or so. Most of the whores have seemed to move out to Maryvale or somewhere because VB isnt what it used to be.
The reason its grouped that way for the Urban Forms purposes it because that VB gateway is going to have the highest buildings in the city, up to 600 feet. Plus Van Buren itself is hopefully going to be where large scale retail and department stores will go, so it needed specific zoning and designations to reflect that.
Like I've said before, hopefully one day when Downtown really takes off and if it gets the 20K new residents the plan calls/hopes for, West Van Buren will be our Michigan Ave. If the envisioned Heritage Trolley running on Grand Ave runs a bit down VB and connects to the Central Station, that section of the street could end up being something really special.
EDIT: In the good news Department:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articl...n-2012-ON.html
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Phoenix 1 of 3 finalists for 2012 GOP Convention
97 comments by Scott Wong - Feb. 1, 2010 01:00 PM
The Arizona Republic
Phoenix has been named one of three finalists to host the 2012 Republican National Convention, local officials said Monday.
Members of the Republican National Committee made the decision over the weekend during their winter meeting in Hawaii. They notified the Phoenix Convention and Visitor's Bureau, which submitted the bid, that the city had made the short list.
The other finalists are Salt Lake City and Tampa.
A RNC site-selection committee will visit the three cities in March and April. The 13-member panel is expected to choose a host city by late spring, though that decision will have to be ratified by the full RNC at its summer meeting.
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, who has been working on the bid with Arizona Republican Party Chairman Randy Pullen, said that hosting a political convention makes good economic sense for the recession-battered state. The 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver generated about $266 million in economic spending in the region.
"Especially today, with the economic hardships the city, restaurants and hotels are facing, any convention is good business for the entire state," Gordon said.
The mayor, a Democrat, also pointed out that Phoenix plans to submit a bid for the 2012 Democratic National Convention later this year. But he emphasized that Phoenix, struggling to close a $245 million deficit, is in no financial shape to invest any public dollars in either political convention.
If Phoenix wins the bid for the 2012 GOP convention, the city's host committee would have to raise about $50 million in private money to cover the cost of the gathering and its dozens of related parties and events. Valley businessman Bob Lavinia has been tapped to serve as interim chairman of the Phoenix bid committee.
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I really hope we get this thing, it would be huge for us. I hope McCain and Napolitano are in Washington putting pressure on whoever to try to make this happen. Especially McCain who has historically done so little for his 'home' state, he's a high powered Senator now. I hope they play up the 2012 Centennial tie in as well, thats clearly an edge Tampa & SLC wouldn't have.