Central Phoenix Urban Infill and Development Thread (2013, apartments)

[Champ le monstre du lac]

With the light rail line in place and future extensions planned along and a renewed interest for urban infill in several sunbelt cities, downtown and midtown Phoenix has been showing many signs of urban infill development both commercial and residential with City Scape, a growing Downtown Phoenix public market, ASU's downtown campus, and some midrise residential development filling in once vacant and derelict blocks. From Downtown up Central Ave into Midtown the area is ripe for infill development. This thread is a discussion for that topic.

Here are some related links on the topic...
This Could Be Phoenix | Creative Urban Awareness
Roosevelt Row
Phoenix Public Market Cafe and Open Air Farmers Market

Feel free to post more links in relation to the topic. How do you feel about downtown and midtown Phoenix? Is it on an upswing? Does the future look more promising a more vibrant Central Phoenix? I'm curious to know how many around the valley consider downtown Phoenix a destination now where they perhaps may not have considered it before.

[homebeyer2013]

land is way too cheap, and that means it just isn't dense enough. I did enjoy living in Midtown for two years, and it's totally gay, as some would like you to believe.

[homebeyer2013]

Originally Posted by homebeyer2013

land is way too cheap, and that means it just isn't dense enough. I did enjoy living in Midtown for two years, and it's NOT totally gay, as some would like you to believe.

edited.

[HollyhockGarden]

Here is an interesting article that was posted January 17th on the Marketplace website.
Can Phoenix un-suburbanize? | Marketplace.org

[Valley Native]

Originally Posted by HollyhockGarden

Here is an interesting article that was posted January 17th on the Marketplace website.
Can Phoenix un-suburbanize? | Marketplace.org

This is an interesting article. If this project connecting downtown with the barrio neighborhoods actually materializes, it would definitely be a much needed infill project. Too many areas around downtown have dilapidated structures & vacant lots which are practically screaming to be developed.

The people who have fears that a development like this would splinter their "community" should realize that any kind of new project would be an improvement compared to what's there now. It's baffling how some people would rather have vacant lots, cracked sidewalks, and boarded up buildings than something fresh and modern.

[Champ le monstre du lac]

Here's an article that asks, does downtown Phoenix have a unique aesthetic, look, and characteristic about it?

Does downtown Phoenix have a look? | A Tailored Place

[caryberry]

Originally Posted by caphillsea77

Here's an article that asks, does downtown Phoenix have a unique aesthetic, look, and characteristic about it?

Does downtown Phoenix have a look? | A Tailored Place

That's an easy question...NO. Nothing about Phoenix, in or outside the downtown area has any character.

Good thing Mother Nature offered the mountainous back-drop or this place would look like a sand lot.

[shiphead]

So the Roosevelt Point apartments are done and they are building another building on 7th street by the children museum. Is all of this to cater to ASU students or what exactly? I like all the trees they are adding.