Avondale Seeking Mixed-Use Ideas

By Corina Vanek for Phoenix Business Journal  The City of Avondale is seeking ideas from private developers about how to best develop 34 acres of city-owned land into a mixed-use development with office, hospitality, retail, residential and community amenities.  The area, which the city has named “The BLVD,” is at Avondale Boulevard south of Interstate […]

Metrocenter: Seeking a Revival

By Corina Vanek for Phoenix Business Journal Once upon a time, Metrocenter was the king of the Valley’s shopping malls. Now, the nearly 47-year-old mall just off Interstate 17 and south of Peoria Avenue in Phoenix is becoming a decaying infestation that could afflict the surrounding area, at least according to a prominent city official. […]

$60M, 282-Unit Mixed-Use Planned in S. Scottsdale

By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Berry Riddell, LLC has submitted a proposal to the City of Scottsdale on behalf of Trammell Crow Residential to develop a $60M, eight-building, 282-unit mixed-use residential community at 2001 N. Scottsdale Road, just north of East Palm Lane. The Trammell Crow Residential website lists 75 Alexan-branded developments and […]

Broken GDLE Subdivision Becoming Niche Apts.

By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange A site in Glendale at 59th Avenue and Butler Drive that has sat only partially developed for 40 years will be reborn as a niche apartment community under a proposal by Visiquest Properties, LLC. According to an announcement sent to AZBEX and select other outlets by Visiquest Principal […]

Is Grand Canal Redevelopment Building Steam?

By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Recent commercial real estate movements in the area of 12th Street and The Grand Canal have tongues wagging and rumors flying about the future of development near the Grand Canalscape redevelopment zone. NAI Horizon announced earlier this week it negotiated the $7M sale of “the largest multifamily-zoned land […]

PHX Advances Hance Park Revitalization

By Jessica Boehm for The Arizona Republic Phoenix is inching closer to a grand revamp of Margaret T. Hance Park, which sits atop Interstate 10’s Deck Park Tunnel in downtown Phoenix. Hance Park is home to Burton Barr Library, the Japanese Friendship Garden, the Irish Cultural Center and McClelland Irish Library, and the Phoenix Center for the […]

Apache & Terrace to Get New Mixed-Use

By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Four lots, three with existing uses and one vacant owned by the City of Tempe, are looking to combine into the area’s newest mixed-use proposal, if all goes according to plan. All told, the newest development will feature 55 workforce housing units as part of a Development and […]