Phoenix | Central Station Towers 1 & 2 | 372 FT | 32 Floors & 230 FT | 22 Floors

[PHX31]

Originally Posted by CrestedSaguaro

It's 372'. I quit updating Wiki because someone kept changing things to incorrect heights. One thing I hate about Wikipedia...anyone can change stuff to whatever.

Wikipedia is not great, for sure. Oh well, I just had a glimmer of hope that we missed something new (reverting back to 424 feet).

[halicem]

Snapped this the other night. Windows are going up!

[PHX31]

Originally Posted by halicem

Snapped this the other night. Windows are going up!

Great pics, thanks for posting. It looks like the shorter of the 2 buildings (on the left) is just about topped out? Maybe 1 more floor to go.

Looking at the Downtown ASU webcam on the 1st page of this thread is amazing too. Realm is really shooting up. I hope northern downtown keeps churning out the planned projects.

[ASU Diablo]

Originally Posted by PHX31

Great pics, thanks for posting. It looks like the shorter of the 2 buildings (on the left) is just about topped out? Maybe 1 more floor to go.

No you were right. The West Tower is topped out.

https://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/...23-update.html

A 1-million-square-foot mixed-use project that has been in the works for four years reached a significant construction milestone on Tuesday.

Development officials, as well as Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, celebrated the topping out of the first tower of the Central Station project in downtown Phoenix, which means the final beam was placed on top of the building.

Construction on the first building, called the West Tower, started in early 2022 for the development that's expected to boost downtown Phoenix with new student and multifamily housing, retail, offices and a multimodal transit center with light rail stations on each side of the project, along with a bus station.

[Obadno]

Originally Posted by PHX31

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Looking at the Downtown ASU webcam on the 1st page of this thread is amazing too..

Who the HELL makes decisions for ASU landscaping? they tore out the old shade trees from Old Main and replaced it with.... Small palms.

Cool useless blazing hot dirt patch for half the year. what are the thinking???

[PHX31]

Originally Posted by Obadno

Who the HELL makes decisions for ASU landscaping? they tore out the old shade trees from Old Main and replaced it with.... Small palms.

Cool useless blazing hot dirt patch for half the year. what are the thinking???

No shit. Some of ASU's decisions are terrible. I bet it was some senior architecture student project they went with for that new landscaping in front of Old Main. How hard would it be to design around keeping the largest shade trees?

And I'll die on my hill that replacing the original 100 year old palm trees on Palm Walk was the most idiotic idea ever. Again, some botanist or grad students decided they were nearing their end-of-life (oh, and ASU has some sort of budget to keep up), so let's tear them all out and replace them with new date palms... Should have let those old girls stand tall and proud until they literally turned into matchsticks. They likely had a couple decades of life left. They were historic basically, might as well tear down Old Main while we're at it.

[Obadno]

Originally Posted by PHX31

They likely had a couple decades of life left. They were historic basically, might as well tear down Old Main while we're at it.

Don't give them any ideas, They will tear down old main and put up a solar panel and an ethanol fuel generator.

I don't know who convinced people that green = Pretty. Just because solar panels are environmentally more friendly than oil does NOT make them pleasant to be around, they are still industrial machinery.

[az_daniel]

Originally Posted by halicem

Snapped this the other night. Windows are going up!

These are going to be the best buildings we have downtown, by a mile. To have them be fully visible from the park is great, i think we will be very satisfied with these towers and their impact when they are complete.

[MMDelon]

I just want to say that I hope future projects have the same feel as the central station project. I can tell already it’s going to be one the best projects aesthetically in downtown Phoenix.