The Next Hot Housing Markets

April 8, 2007 – 9:47 pm

Average prices nationwide are soaring, but for every San Diego, there’s a Tucson; sunny, relatively cheap and growing fast. In any boom market, true bargains get harder and harder to find.

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Camelback High-Rise OK Stirs Furor

April 8, 2007 – 9:38 pm

Residents in Phoenix’s ritzy Camelback Corridor are furious over city planners’ decision to allow developers to build high-rises close to their homes. After a sometimes-chaotic three-hour session that ended at 1 a.m. Thursday, the Planning Commission granted higher building limits that affect two key projects proposed for the 24th Street and Camelback Road area:

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Economists: Population Growth Supports Valley Home Prices

April 8, 2007 – 9:24 pm

Can Arizona survive a deflation of the so-called real estate bubble? Economists participating in the Arizona Blue Chip Economic Forecast believe the answer is "yes."

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Tempe’s High-Rises To Create New Views

April 8, 2007 – 9:20 pm

Growing cities have nowhere to go but up over the next five years, Tempe’s skyline will get an extreme makeover, and other Valley cities are watching closely. Gleaming, 22-story condo towers will dwarf familiar landmarks such as the Hayden Flour Mill’s silos. Tempe Town Lake will be ringed with six-, eight- and 12-story developments.

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Toll Bros To Break Ground On Condos

April 8, 2007 – 9:18 pm

Toll Brothers is joining the luxury condominium building frenzy downtown with groundbreaking ceremonies Thursday for its Residences on Main. Sales are set to begin next month but the prices have not been released.

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Downtown Downer: A Parking Crisis For Urban Pioneers AtTthe Orpheum Lofts

April 8, 2007 – 11:52 am

When it comes to real estate, Monty and Marlene Wilson aren’t exactly novices. Monty’s a builder. Marlene has a broker’s license. But earlier this year, the Wilsons learned something shocking about the $479,000 condominium they purchased two years ago in downtown Phoenix: It came without parking.

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Multiple Projects Kety To Downtown’s Revival

April 8, 2007 – 11:47 am

First it was the Phoenix Civic Plaza. Then it was the Arizona Center. Later it was the sporting venues – America West Arena and Bank One Ballpark – that were to provide the spark. More recently, it was a new Arizona State University campus that was ballyhooed.

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Valley Metro Rail Moving To New Downtown Headquarters

April 7, 2007 – 3:16 pm

Valley Metro Rail Inc., which has begun construction of the Metro Light Rail system in the Valley, will soon be moving its headquarters.

The agency has signed a lease for 57,007 square feet of space on the ninth through 13th floors of the U.S. Bank Center, 101 N. First Ave. It is moving from its current quarters at 411 N. Central because that building will be occupied by Arizona State University as part of its new downtown campus.

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Development to Combine ASU, Residential, Office Uses

October 7, 2005 – 8:38 am
A $275 million project with a six-story building for Arizona State University classrooms and offices, a 31-story residential condominium building, and a 12-floor office building is planned on one block in downtown Phoenix.

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Towers to create city’s ‘urban hub’

October 5, 2005 – 7:42 am

A10-story hotel topped with condominiums and a 15-story residential and office tower, each planned for the south side of Chandler Fashion Center, would create an urban hub in a suburban city, the project’s architect said.

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