Awesome news! Hope to see this materialize.
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Well, the dream has been long dead but I call this the nail in the coffin. No more warehouses, no more revitalized district to rival Gas Lamp or Power & Light. Shame. They'll demo those warehouses in a heartbeat for housing.
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According to the Planned Unit Development associated with the parcels, here's what I think is going to be saved:
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Jackson St. Website
Anyone seen this? Interesting pics, especially the Pikes Market Center - esque sign.
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It's frustrating. Especially seeing the original specs for the whole thing. I hate when they put out these amazing specs and articles on this stuff and then years later we're still sitting with nothing.
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Not gonna lie if there's one project I wish the city/developers could revisit and make a reality, it's definitely this one! We definitely got cheated on this one, what a shame!
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The biggest issue I see with projects like what we have here in PHX like CityScape and Arizona Center is complete loss of interaction with the street in most cases. CityScape has a courtyard type feel so a majority of the stores and shops face away from the street and don't interact with pedestrians on the main drag, same could be said about Arizona Center and Denver Pavilions. It makes the area around the center seem less walk-able. |
This should give a nice boost of confidence to the Warehouse District. Couldn't help but laugh at 10 CBRE agents representing the seller :haha:
https://azbigmedia.com/real-estate/b...ict-for-9-75m/ |
I was thinking yesterday how Jackson St. used to have Cooperstown and Jacksons on 3rd. Then further south was Coach & Willies, although i think perhaps Jacksons closed before Coach's opened?
Jackson's was kind of a dump, but it was a quick place to grab cheep beer at before or after the game. Cooperstown had pretty crap food but has some novelty value. Coach and Willies was ALWAYS hopping for DBacks games. Now that area south of the Arena and Ballpark is completely void of bars and restaurants. I think this is what really has led to the failed vision of the Warehouse Entertainment district. I can only attribute this to the increase in options north of the arena and ballpark. I think it started with Cityscape, the light rail and the rise of Roosevelt. In addition, the low quality places where you go to stuff your face or pound drinks immediately before or after a game seems to have shifted to the parking garage in front of the Jefferson St. station. The music venues have largely focused to the north and west with Cooper Blues, Crescent Ballroom, The Van Buren and Valley Bar. At this point I see the future of the warehouse district being a rather sleepy commercial and residential area. Maybe a bar or restaurant or two will pop up to serve the influx of residents with The Blue and Ballpark Apartments in the future, but I don't ever see the vision being realized. If I had to point to one thing, I think it was the light rail that killed these hopes. It brought all the concentration of development north into downtown's center and up central. |
I'll just add that I hope once the light rail extensions through downtown are done and downtown continues to expand north, south, east and west, that they will see value in a street car (let's hope Tempe shows success) that can move people within downtown rather than to and from downtown. Some circular routes through the Warehouse district, downtown, Roosevelt and Grand would be pretty awesome and IMHO would fuel a development frenzy like we've never seen.
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Man Coach and Willie's and Jacksons on 3rd were such cool spots in their prime. Might get stabbed at Jacksons on 3rd but hey you would've had fun in the process LOL |
I took a nice long walk around there today. The Battery is going to get people living in the area and the Home2 Suites going up will bring some visitors staying south of the tracks. It's a plus that Home2 will be keeping the adjacent warehouse and I hope they are smart enough to at least have a decent bar in there.
If Thunderbird and Jefferson get off the ground along with LRT stops at Lincoln and Buckeye, this should be enough to really start to turn things around for the area and probably be a catalyst for more development in the next couple of years. |
Jackson's on 3rd was nothing great but what it had going for it was proximity to the ballpark. It used to be packed on game nights. I think it ceased operations during the Great Recession, but I was expecting to re-emerge in time for the All Star Game in 2011 and was surprised that it didn't.
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