August 27, 2008 – 6:24 pm
There’s a new Ritz Carlton proposed for Paradise Valley on the 105 acres of vacant land on the west side of Scottsdale Road running from Lincoln Boulevard to roughly Indian Bend. WeKnowUrban followers might question why we care about a resort property in Paradise Valley. After all, it’s not very “urban.” But since it would be the [...]
August 15, 2008 – 2:03 pm
John Lupypciw, President of Continental Group, is frustrated by the interference and micromanagement by Scottsdale City Planners in respect to his $22 million development of the northwest corner of Miller Road and Osborn into one hundred condominiums.
The funny thing is that often times its the developer who fights for permission to build taller buildings but in this case [...]
After the recent opposition to the cross downtown Hanover project, another residential condominium development is under fire from nearby residents. The project submitted their proposal to the Scottsdale Development Review Commission this year with the project name of 3500 Toscana (3500 N Miller Rd. is the address). The site is on the northwest corner of [...]
Earlier this week, the developer of Centerpoint Condominiums, Ken Losch of Avenue Communities unveiled his vision for Hayden Flour Mill to the Tempe’s Mayor, Hugh Hallman. Similarly, building permits for the project were recently approved, making way for the development to start construction this summer.
Located on the southeast corner of Rio Salado Drive and Mill [...]
Earlier this week, applicants of the M7 project, located on the southeast corner of Mill Avenue and 7th Street in downtown Tempe requested for a PAD overlay to let them go vertical, all the way up to 300+ feet. The property was originally supposed to house a Marriot Sports Club Hotel, which is now proposed [...]
A media popular mixed-use project called Hanover in Old Town Scottsdale has seriously stirred up neighborhood opposition, and as a result has been delayed in its city approval process until September. A petition with 1961 signatures was required to delay the project, but the public surpassed that number and got 3000 opposers. The project has [...]
The most recent WeKnowUrban Tour hit the hot Tempe market, visiting properties on Tempe Town Lake and the Mill Avenue District. Tempe, as well all know by now is landlocked and is seeing an abundance of vertical growth. We were fortunate enough to get of tour of many heights, from 6 stories all [...]
Jon Talton’s post, “Class, power and downtown development” paints a bleak picture of the future of the Phoenix Downtown area and I’ll be darn if at first blush he doesn’t make a lot of sense. In fact, reading his article really bummed me out initially.
But then, I began remembering some of the many people who I have met [...]
The update for MEZZO, the ten loft style condo community under construction on 12th Street just north of Osborn in midtown Phoenix, is that it should be completed in late May. WeKnowUrban hopes to run a tour through the condominiums in June. Stay tuned.
We posted last week that it appeared that Copper Pointe High Rise Condominiums were not moving forward. We have confirmation that we were correct.
A man representing the former developer of Copper Pointe contacted us to let us know that in fact Copper Pointe would not be built but instead a community called DNA Condominiums will be built. [...]
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