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Originally Posted by PHXFlyer11
I just don't get it... it's like "bike lanes, shade, etc." which are all good things but i don't see how that's really a plan. And I don't see what good it does when the stretch they're talking about is almost fully developed already. It's not some abandoned stretch of land like the lake was that creates some wonderful opportunity for development.
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It's far from fully developed, there's a parking lot on nearly every block or room for adaptive reuse or total redevelopment.
The big problem is that some of the land owners are long term land bankers or various people that have no vision or finances. Like, on Central and Roosevelt, we have plenty of room for improvement:
- Redeveloping the radio building like rehabbing a couple of the structures to the south and building the CBS Tower with a giant display over Roosevelt
- Sliver hotel building on the church parking lot
- Relocating the substation turning the light rail triangle into a plaza
- Redeveloping those crummy 1-story buildings on the east side of central and infilling a couple of the parking lots--lots of lots to assemble.
With all that, we'd have Phoenix's Times Square.
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