29 November 2017

The Tallest Building Here In DTMesa?

Mebbe you don't walk around or look up at the NEC intersection above Country Club Drive/Main Street - this 15-story building has been visible in the streetscape for years. The ground under it is owned by Susan Tibschraeney. Everything above is under management in the mid-rise on N Robson.  
The business: assisted senior living
The name: Courtyard Towers
No other details available at this time, except to say that just a few years ago it sold for $21 Million Dollar$.
...Not too outstanding architecturally for sure
Now what could have possibly piqued the interest of your MesaZona blogger to publish a post about the tallest building here in The New Urban DTMesa?
#1 THIS IS ACTUALLY WHAT A 15-STORY BUILDING LOOKS LIKE ....and that's important when some very questionable, but 'pretty pictures' are wrongly used here.
What is your blogger talking about?
Some people appear to think that DTMesa is 'ripe' for development 12 years after the Mesa Arts Center was built in 2005 and Valley Metro Light Rail extended into the Central Business District in August 2015, but this is just another Pie-In-The-Sky plan way before its time and in the wrong place.
This 'pretty picture' to the right of what is supposed to be a 15-story tower with 75 boutique hotel rooms and 75 upscale above-make rate apartments squeezed into a less-than-one-acre parking lot right behind a public charter school with over 700 students located between it and the Mesa Arts Center.
What's the problem?
1. It's WAY OUT-OF-SCALE to any of the two-story buildings in this historic district
2. The architectural rendering itself an intended deception - it is out-of-proportion - it looks more like six stories when you consider that The Drew Building (with the white roof at left center) is two stories high.
An intended deception to start with????? Not a good way to start off.
Any potential developer with mid-rise plans might find it more fitting to consider the other side of the Mesa Arts Center where this 10-story has held place in the city scale - and it's not in the historic district.
There's already an existing three-story parking garage on the north side of 100-200 W Main Street.
Sunbelt Holdings has the title to the entire prime piece of land here in DTMesa.
What are they waiting for?


 

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