think i found it, looks like was deleted but was cached (Phoenix Business Journal)

Ohio software company Facility Source brings 200 jobs, headquarters to midtown Phoenix

NEW ARTICLE
http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/b...o-midtown.html

Opening to street
 

They know who they are I don't need to call them out by name. They are all in on touchy feely open every door to the street in every building situation.

This the development at 7th Ave. and Fillmore. It doesn't say so in the article.

WOOD PARTNERS BREAKS GROUND ON ALTA FILLMORE, A 230-UNIT COMMUNITY IN DOWNTOWN PHOENIX

http://cem-az.com/wood-partners-brea...F15%2C+Issue+1

That's at the SE corner of 7th Ave. and Fillmore, right?

There has been a lot of ground clearing there lately. That will be nice to have some new residential to the west side of downtown.

the rendering looks like it might be street friendly. there was talk of it being walled and gated.

someone bought an old cold storage warehouse along with two historic homes on south east corner of 7th ave and mckinley. turned the old warehouse into a print shop. heard rumor that homes might be turned into retail. lets hope.

building on the north east corner of mckinley and 7th seems under utilized. would be a great place for a trader joes, with all the historic neighborhoods to the north. lots of parking.

[QUOTE=downtownphxguy12;7151394]the rendering looks like it might be street friendly. there was talk of it being walled and gated.
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The Alta already downtown is street friendly, so is the One in Scottsdale and Tempe

the Scottsdale and Tempe ones are more residential so they are set back a little front he street but they have rooms that open to the ground floor and the entrance to the office is off the street.

I never understood the issue people had with this project its going bring a LOT of people into the area. and its in a location that can start to spread the gentrification west and south

Van Buran and Grand are ripe for redevelopment and it would be great if we could replace those old motels with life to connect Downtown and Grand instead of having a deadzone of homeless people and prostitutes.

tonight I passed the hole where the new hotel will be AT THE LUHRS CENTER and guess what was in it?????
A CRANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This was posted a couple days ago. Good news. Too bad no one seems to know what this structure is even gonna look like..........

From Luhr's website. At least a partial...

http://pdf.leeazmail.com/pdfs/luhrsmarriott.jpg

California retail, restaurant market concept coming to downtown Phoenix

http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/n...article_search

That is an awesome concept. That will fill all that vacant space that faces First Ave. Exciting.

This is huge! I just hope that it survives long enough for all the influx of new residents in the next 6-8 months with all the apartments being built in roosevelt.

That has been a difficult location for restaurants.

In the article he says that he expects to open in "about a year" and his cooperative office space on the top floor in just a few months.

So hopefully all of the new residents will be around when he opens+ whatever projects get started in the next 12 months.

I live and work in the area and I can tell you it would take a really unique and interesting restaurant to entice me to go over there, it's kind of a pain to get in and out of that location.

Are you driving when you have this problem?

I'm generally always driving, it's quite hot out to walk 5 or 6 blocks and I'm not going to have a good time if I'm covered in sweat!

Are you new here or something? if you cant walk 5 blocks in 110 you are no true Phoenician.:P

But seriously its two blocks south of Central Station and 2 blocks north of Cityscape station, I don't really get what you mean but hard to get too?

More important for the Market than the actual number of residents, the pedestrian connections need to be there, and they're not. If it's oppressively hot, being located downtown is a disadvantage given the lack of shade and parking except when catering to lunch workers that were already there, captive, and relatively shaded. When I lived downtown, I could never handle the heat at the height of summer and drove the 1/3rd of a mile to Circle K instead of walked it because Fillmore is/was basically the surface of Mars. (In retrospect I should've had a bike, but I'm generally terrified of those).

If Phoenix wants retail connections to thrive, it's going to have to get serious about shade downtown, a promise that somehow never goes anywhere in the 9 years since Mayor Phil boomed of its importance.

As for Alta Fillmore, I think people want to see something more urban/mixed-use there (weren't they trying to build a gated community), but that site sucks. Only low rise buildings are allowed on the east side of 7th Ave and it'd probably not be worthwhile or be possible to park a project that was taller on the west side of 6th Ave. But that site is going to be 400 extra residents in that corner of downtown, providing fuel for something elsewhere.

Not everyone feels like riding public transportation around town, I own cars for a reason. I'm just saying for me personally that location seems tougher to get in and out of than most others downtown.