On first avenue I can't think of any apartments, do you mean the old law office?

Well I think they were apartments. I've always seen people walking in and out of there like they lived there. I could be wrong. They are directly behind Stewart.

The building I think you’re referring to is the Knights of Pythias building, just across the street from NCounter.

No, it's these historic garden-ish style apts (they're pretty hidden by the trees on street view) next to this old mission style house... like he said, directly behind (or directly west of) The Stewart.

https://goo.gl/maps/hFE5XkRw83C2 exit street view to see aerial too.

That's an old law office, there's literally a sign on the corner for Michael Terrible, presumably the attorney who most recently occupied the building.

Before that it was insurance, according to the words on that same sign in the street view you just linked.

The may have been apartments at one point but not in my memory of walking by that building on an almost daily basis for years.

It's these 2 buildings circled. Strange to see Circles still partially demo'd in this satellite view. Wow!

https://image.ibb.co/fr8N5d/1stAve.png

Don't ask me how I know this, but in the 1st. Ave. photo above, from the brick building on the left to all the parcels going south (not including the corner) are owned by the same entity. The property circled in red was a site proposed for a condo or apartment building. The owners wanted to retain the brick building but wanted to have the lower parcels developed. Not sure if that's still the case, and why it's fenced off, but was the case as soon as a year ago. FWIW.

Here's a link to a .pdf file I found regarding 'The Hardware Store':
http://images3.loopnet.com/d2/BEfaFU...8/document.pdf

It includes both 815 and 829 N. Central.

Looks like they're just remodeling the existing properties. Apparently the Knights of Pythias building was, at some point in time, an appliance and hardware store; hence the name.

Central and Camelback
 

There's a lot of equipment and groundwork being done on the corner next to the LTR station. Can someone remind me of what project is proposed to go there?

Haven't heard anything specific on Camelback and Central, but boy wouldn't another surprise LINK project make our day?!!!!!

I believe that when the land was sold, there was a stipulation that a temporary pedestrian path be put in to link the rail station to the corner. Right now, it's an awkward walk around the triangular lot. I think that's the only construction occurring right now. Presumably when this land is fully developed, the temporary path will become some sort of permanent pedestrian connection between the rail platforms and the corner.

I thought it was this:
http://thedavisexperience.com/projec...-and-camelback

That project was dropped years ago. Too bad too. That would have been an awesome development.

Over-designed buildings like that at that location would have been totally out of scale and visually too much for the surrounding area. Somewhere else it would have been cool.

I almost wish I never clicked on that link. What an epic project!

That would be perfect for Central & Camelback or Tempe Town Lake.

Same could have been said in 1962 when Al Beadle designed the Executive Towers down the street.

I appreciate some forward thinking/optimism. :tup:

^ The zoning on that Central/Camelback project sucked.

It was before the PADs really took off and they proposed it in such a way that Planning's hands were utterly tied. I don't remember the specifics and won't go dig into 10 year old hard drives, but they were basically asking for a blank check. The response to it was the strangest and most awful staff report I've ever seen, and when Debra Stark and I sat down with it we were at her office lnto the evening with piles of code books and I realized what a garbage proposal it was. They didn't even have the transit departments sign off on the underground bus bays.

This morning I noticed about 20 boxed palo verdes inside the fence at Central / Camelback. My guess is they'll be used to line the pedestrian path that's being built there.

Let's check in on The Churchill.

https://i.imgur.com/xkM0X0Q.jpg
I really dig this container art near the entrance.

https://i.imgur.com/hdQmn6K.jpg
The roof is up, and there are ducts for air conditioning too.

https://i.imgur.com/IM6OMNj.jpg
From Garfield

Thank you for the photos