It's a couple months old now but I found a packet presented to the Tempe Historic Preservation Commission in May about the Tempe Depot development proposed on the site of the train station/Macayo's:
https://www.tempe.gov/Home/ShowDocument?id=82341
The letter from the developer is dated December 2019, so all of this is likely at best up in the air and at worst changed completely. But as of December 2019 the bullet point details were:
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- the preservation and rehabilitation of the approximate 3,370 square foot train depot built in 1924 located along the Site’s western perimeter for retail / restaurant use space;
- approximately 13,715 square feet of total indoor retail / restaurant use space, up to approximately 5,310 square feet of outdoor dining space, approximately 21,670 square feet of public gathering / plaza space, approximately 2,020 square feet of office lobby space, approximately 860 square feet of hotel lobby space, and six vehicle parking spaces at street-level;
- six levels of above-grade structured parking providing 1,087 vehicle parking spaces, including 120 tandem spaces for hotel valet use;
- approximately 2,175 square feet of hotel lobby space, approximately 6,045 square feet of indoor hotel restaurant and bar space, approximately 630 square feet of outdoor hotel restaurant and bar space, approximately 10,310 square feet of hotel meeting space, approximately 25,020 square feet of leasable office space, and a shared amenity deck with a pool and lounging areas on the 8th floor / level;
- an approximate 1,080 square foot hotel fitness center on the 9th floor of the hotel tower;
- up to 280 hotel guest rooms on the 9th through 18th floors of the hotel tower;
- approximately 251,430 square feet of total leasable office space on the 9th through 17th floors of the office tower; and,
- substantial landscape improvements
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The development group looks to be RED and Smithgroup, and the hotel brand was to be a flagship Hilton Hotels and Resorts.
I still don't like the big imposing parking podium; it just seems wrong to have 1000+ parking spaces literally looming over the light rail. But at least they would be preserving the train depot, better utilizing the land, eating up more surface parking and providing an assumedly quality project. Given the information that Central Station in Phoenix had to lose its hotel component because hotels are near impossible to finance currently, I imagine this one won't happen any time soon in this iteration, but interesting to read about regardless.
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