(Scurries to Google Maps)
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Originally Posted by Obadno
Well Im surprised that Garfield and Westlake have not gentrified faster TBH especially with the housing stock near downtown being very available but Garfield seems like it hasn't seen major gentrification in years. By now I was expecting Coronado and Garfield both to be much more expensive and desirable neighborhoods but that hasnt happened (at least not as fast as I anticipated)
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To suggest that I'm particularly familiar with downtown and its neighborhoods would be a distortion of reality.
Garfield? Okay, got it. Coronado? Ah yes, I love that area; just leave it alone; let it find its own way. Westlake? Google was no help.
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Originally Posted by Obadno
I would fully expect basically the entire area from the 51 to the I17 from Downtown up to sunnyslope to eventually gentrify (to some degree) as well as the continually southward marching "Arcadia" to eventually get down to McDowell, but the area south of the 202 and north of the airport largely seems way to industrial and isolated to ever really gentrify.
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Not interested so much in the west side; a little too gritty for me for now. Although, I have noticed some 'low-level' new construction.
Staying to the east of downtown, it's the mixed-use areas partly industrial that I like. What I see is cheap land values (relatively speaking) and friendly zoning (?). Makes it nice and easy to assemble land sites for redevelopment.
BTW, there is some new construction occurring in Sunnyslope.
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Originally Posted by Obadno
If anything I expect that area to become more industrial, Sky harbor plans to annex virtually everything south of Washington for example.
I hope that light rail down central and maybe, eventually commuter/Amtrak coming into downtown the areas south of downtown will improve, but they are so far behind im not sure how long that will take.
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So over Thanksgiving weekend I decide to refresh my recall of the maze of roads at Sky Harbor. Ran into a "suspicious package" traffic jamb; managed to escape and and double back to 24th street. From there I headed south to Broadway and over to Central so I could drive the light rail progress. Mostly sinking drainage pipe from what I could tell.
I also discovered Airlane which goes from 24th street all the way over to the 44th street station. Nothing south of Washington worth talking about; Sky Harbor can have it.
But north of Washington is all fair game.