Phoenix Development News (3) - Page 547

Obadno · #**10921** Posted **Oct 6, 2017, 3:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by SunDevil

Ok, but then why harp on not "getting what it deserves".

Because the website is called skyscraper page.com

ASUSunDevil · #**10922** Posted **Oct 6, 2017, 3:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by Obadno

Because the website is called skyscraper page.com

The most recent 'skyscraper' Downtown was CityScape, which was built in 2010. What better way to ease back into tall office development than a skinny one?

I think the RFP's for the lot next to Hanny's will be surprisingly tall.

fawd · #**10923** Posted **Oct 6, 2017, 5:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by ASUSunDevil

The most recent 'skyscraper' Downtown was CityScape, which was built in 2010. What better way to ease back into tall office development than a skinny one?

I think the RFP's for the lot next to Hanny's will be surprisingly tall.

With Obad on this one. We'll see a nice 'short' mid-rise, with lots of first floor retail/restaurants etc. I think it will be perfect for that corner.

Still year(s) away from seeing a specific RFP winner though, so who knows how well the market will keep up by then.

biggus diggus · #**10924** Posted **Oct 6, 2017, 6:31 PM**

A few of you seemed very worried about the old pink liquor store on 7th Avenue and its fate. I received an Instagram follow request this morning from the_googie_on_melrose with a description of a new restaurant called The Googie moving into that pink liquor store in 2018.

https://www.facebook.com/TheGoogieonMelrose/

exit2lef · #**10925** Posted **Oct 6, 2017, 7:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by biggus diggus

A few of you seemed very worried about the old pink liquor store on 7th Avenue and its fate. I received an Instagram follow request this morning from the_googie_on_melrose with a description of a new restaurant called The Googie moving into that pink liquor store in 2018.

https://www.facebook.com/TheGoogieonMelrose/

I believe the person behind the Googie is the former owner of 32 Shea, a coffee house and restaurant in northeast Phoenix. If so, she'll do good work in Melrose. Personally, it would not have bothered me to see that building demolished, but if it's going to stay, better as a restaurant than as a dilapidated drive-thru liquor store with bars on the windows.

Phxguy · #**10926** Posted **Oct 6, 2017, 8:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by exit2lef

I believe the person behind the Googie is the former owner of 32 Shea, a coffee house and restaurant in northeast Phoenix. If so, she'll do good work in Melrose. Personally, it would not have bothered me to see that building demolished, but if it's going to stay, better as a restaurant than as a dilapidated drive-thru liquor store with bars on the windows.

Same. I wasn't rallying behind the structure as I don't find it all that impressive but good news it will no longer remain a derelict building and will breathe new life into that lot. Still pisses me off that the Campbell House and Goodie building both faced opposition simultaneously and it was ultimately a piece of history from a Phoenix pioneer (despite how structurally sound it was or wasn't) that lost.

CrestedSaguaro · #**10927** Posted **Oct 6, 2017, 8:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by exit2lef

I believe the person behind the Googie is the former owner of 32 Shea, a coffee house and restaurant in northeast Phoenix. If so, she'll do good work in Melrose. Personally, it would not have bothered me to see that building demolished, but if it's going to stay, better as a restaurant than as a dilapidated drive-thru liquor store with bars on the windows.

Doesn't P.B. Bell (the developer of the Curve) own the Pink Liquor Store? I've never seen anything about the store being sold. Will they be leasing from P.B. Bell or was the property sold?

Phxguy · #**10928** Posted **Oct 6, 2017, 8:49 PM**

http://dtphx.org/2017/10/06/11-new-b...ntown-phoenix/

A good spotlight on the rapidly expanding options coming soon to downtown. I think most, if not all, of these were already covered a few pages back but it provides a bit more info on the concepts.

exit2lef · #**10929** Posted **Oct 6, 2017, 8:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by RonnieFoos

Doesn't P.B. Bell (the developer of the Curve) own the Pink Liquor Store? I've never seen anything about the store being sold. Will they be leasing from P.B. Bell or was the property sold?

I'm not sure. Bell was proposing to tear down the building and replace it with a pocket park. After the outcry, the company agreed to consider other uses, and I guess this is the one chosen. I don't know if the property was sold or is being leased.

biggus diggus · #**10930** Posted **Oct 6, 2017, 9:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by exit2lef

I believe the person behind the Googie is the former owner of 32 Shea, a coffee house and restaurant in northeast Phoenix. If so, she'll do good work in Melrose. Personally, it would not have bothered me to see that building demolished, but if it's going to stay, better as a restaurant than as a dilapidated drive-thru liquor store with bars on the windows.

Great, she's a real piece of work who berates her employees in front of customers. If she's behind it I'm sure it will be successful but I won't be giving her my money.

dtnphx · #**10931** Posted **Oct 6, 2017, 11:10 PM**

Well, for what she paid for that crappy logo (really bad graphic

), I'm guessing she's not gonna do much to make that place look better. Shame.

KEVINphx · #**10932** Posted **Oct 7, 2017, 5:46 AM**

lol what a bunch of shit talkers

biggus diggus · #**10933** Posted **Oct 7, 2017, 1:40 PM**

I don't consider what I said to be talking shit.

KEVINphx · #**10934** Posted **Oct 7, 2017, 3:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by biggus diggus

I don't consider what I said to be talking shit.

actually, your comment made me more curious what your experience must have been! I've never been to her restaurant but I have been in places where the owner is like you describe and it just makes them look like big assholes. I don't blame you haha

CrestedSaguaro · #**10935** Posted **Oct 10, 2017, 6:51 PM**

A couple of new places coming to Luhrs. A French cafe and a coffee bar...

https://azbigmedia.com/lincoln-prope...s-city-center/

biggus diggus · #**10936** Posted **Oct 10, 2017, 7:03 PM**

That was in an Arizona Republic article published on Friday about 11 new businesses getting ready to open downtown, the most interesting of which to me was BBQ Trapp Haus at 4th Street and Roosevelt.

Apparently a BBQ restaurant owned by a German drug dealer.