What is it really?
Crane in the sky Jeff McVay was quoted on [SEC Mesa Drive/Main Street]
“It’s our first crane in the air in downtown Mesa, which is an exciting time,’’ said Jeff McVay, Mesa’s manager of downtown transformation, alluding to The Grove’s status as the first major downtown redevelopment project . . .
Downtown Mesa’s revolution in full throttle
By Jim Walsh, Tribune Staff Writer
"The Grove on Main Street is rapidly rising on the eastern edge of downtown Mesa. Together with an exhaustive renovation of the Mesa Arizona Tempe grounds, construction of Arizona State University’s building and a nearby new “urban neigborhood”, The Grove will radically transform the downtown landscape.
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Solange Breaks Down Her Hit Song
‘Cranes in the Sky’ (Listen)
by Hilton Dresden
Solange has long travelled to Miami to seek creative refuge and serenity, but, as she explains on the podcast, the city had fallen into a maze of new construction: “Miami was going through a surge just like a lot of America… there was just so much real estate development at that time.
Literally eveywhere I looked around had a crane in the sky. You could not look at a street without dozens and dozens of them. It felt really heavy to me.”
It was that image that helped to inspire the direction and the feeling of the song:
“The heaviness and the weightiness and kind of, even, the eyesoreness of seeing all of these cranes be so disruptive in this space that I found peace in,.."
IN ANOTHER INTERVIEW WITH HER OLDER SISTER
Beyonce Interviewed Solange & Revealed The Real Meaning Behind 'Cranes In The Sky'
11 January 2017, 11:17 | Updated: 11 January 2017, 11:26
In the candid interview, Solange opened up about her standout single 'Cranes In The Sky', revealing the song was written eight years ago. . . "I remember looking up and seeing all of these cranes in the sky," she said.
"They were so heavy and such an eyesore, and not what I identified with peace and refuge.
"I remember thinking of it as an analogy for my transition—this idea of building up, up, up that was going on in our country at the time, all of this excessive building, and not really dealing with what was in front of us."
