A leftover infill site in central Phoenix is now home to 25 low-rise condominiums, with a modern design that maximizes the site and minimizes ongoing costs. artHAUS was an architect’s first foray into residential development; as he says, “the design part’s easy for me, but the financing part—that was a big-time learning curve” helped along by a ULI Arizona event.
The Newton is an 18,599-square-foot (1,727 sq m) mixed-use retail, dining, office, and events building in Uptown Phoenix, Arizona, housing an independent bookstore with a beer, wine, and coffee bar; a home and garden store; a chef-led restaurant; a small office; and spaces for meetings and events. The Newton hosts hundreds of events each year, whether sponsored by its tenants or booked by the public. It was built within a renovated restaurant/banquet facility whose mid-century modern architecture and old-fashioned cuisine made it a local landmark for 40 years.
Located in Scottsdale, Arizona, the 76,000-square-foot (7,061-m2) Chaparral Water Treatment Facility was built to meet the current and future water demand of this desert city and Phoenix suburb. Through the use of cutting-edge technology, the facility fulfills its public mandate on a minimal footprint and lessens its impact on the neighboring community with art and sculpture that pay homage to desert life. Completed in June 2006, the result transforms a necessary community resource—typically relegated to industrial areas—into a backdrop for the bustling Chaparral Park.
The Newton is an 18,599-square-foot mixed-use retail, dining, office, and events building in Uptown Phoenix, Arizona, housing an independent bookstore with a beer, wine, and coffee bar; a home and garden store; a chef-led restaurant; a small office; and spaces for meetings and events. The Newton hosts hundreds of events each year, whether sponsored by its tenants or booked by the public. It was built within a renovated restaurant/banquet facility whose midcentury modern architecture and old-fashioned cuisine made it a local landmark for 40 years.
Kierland Commons comprises a spine of fashion-based retail tenants and entertainment, office, and residential uses on a 38-acre (15-ha) parcel within the larger 730-acre (295-ha) Kierland master-planned community 15 miles (24 km) outside of downtown Phoenix. The vertically integrated mixed-use project embraces an urban configuration of narrow streets and a compact mix of uses containing 342,488 square feet (31,818 m2) of upscale shops, 124,214 square feet (11,540 m2) of office space, and 84 loft-style condominiums. Designed as a “main street” development that could act as both a retail destination and a town center for the surrounding community, Kierland Commons uses an innovative streetscape design to mitigate the effects of the harsh desert climate.
Set on a seven-acre (three ha) campus directly across from city hall, the public arts complex contains galleries and other exhibit spaces, four theaters, studios, classrooms, and administrative offices, as well as a large outdoor plaza and passageway. The project celebrates the essence of the Southwest while offering comprehensive performance and visual arts programming and education and creating an economic development engine for downtown Mesa.
The renovation and expansion of a historic and architecturally significant 500-room resort hotel. The $32.6 million repositioning initiative combined new construction and value-added rehabilitation, including refurbishment of the hotel’s guestrooms, lobby, and kitchen, as well as the construction of a new pool complex, a banquet facility, and 78 resort condominium villas.
Anthem is a 5,860-acre (2,371-hectare) master-planned community located in the North Valley of Phoenix, Arizona. Anthem’s plan allows for a family-oriented lifestyle, providing recreational facilities for residents of all ages. The community comprises basic elements of a small city: houses, shops, restaurants, entertainment venues, sports facilities, offices, and municipal services. Homes at Anthem range in price from the low $100,000s to more than $400,000 and measure from approximately 1,200 to 4,400 square feet (111 to 409 square meters) in size.
Desert Ridge Marketplace is an open-air, shaded shopping and entertainment destination located in north Phoenix, Arizona. The $180 million project is the first retail development in the state to combine the elements of a power center, a mall, and a neighborhood grocery center to create a “power village”. Retailers both big and small face an entertainment core located at the center of the 1.2 million-square-foot (111,480-square-meter) project. Desert Ridge was 97 percent leased within six months of opening in November 2001 and has 19 major retailers and 35 restaurants. It has become an urban hot spot in a suburban setting that attracts visitors day and night.
A 3,700-acre, master-planned community in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the foothills of the McDowell Mountains northeast of metropolitan Phoenix. The development is planned to have at buildout approximately 4,500 to 6,700 dwellings, a 2 million-square-foot, mixed-use town center, a 300,000-square-foot neighborhood center, two 18-hole golf courses, two schools (K-8 and 9â “12), a recreation center, several places of worship, and other amenities. In addition, the project offers residents access to a high-speed, community-wide intranet. DC Ranch has been described as one of the nation’s first telecommunities.