Posts Tagged ‘Bill Scheel’
September 26, 2007
[Source: Jahna Berry, Arizona Republic] — Phoenix City Council members and their top aides may have to tell a court whether they had improper talks with the developer of a proposed $200 million W Hotel project. Last week, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ordered a trial to sort through conflicting accounts about how the [...]
Posted in Coordination of Planning, Diversity and Cultural Inclusion, Downtown Vitality, Downtown Voices Coalition, Historic Preservation, Luxury Housing |
Tags: ALERT!, Arizona Republic, Asian American, Barry Wong, Bill Scheel, City Council, David Cavazos, Downtown Development Office, Downtown Phoenix, Facadism, Frank Fairbanks, Gary Verburg, Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Preservation Office, Jahna Berry, Jay DeWitt, Jerry Colangelo, Mike Davis, Peter Swann, Phil Gordon, Robert Sarver, Southwest Value Partners, Sun Mercantile, W Hotel, Warehouse District
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September 18, 2007
[Source: Jahna Berry, Arizona Republic] — A proposed $200 million boutique hotel in downtown Phoenix was on life support, but a judge’s Tuesday ruling has effectively killed the existing deal, the developer said. Phoenix Suns majority owner Robert Sarver was poised to build a 39-story W Hotel near US Airways Center. The development would have [...]
Posted in Coordination of Planning, Diversity and Cultural Inclusion, Downtown Vitality, Downtown Voices Coalition, Historic Preservation, Luxury Housing |
Tags: ALERT!, Arizona Republic, Asian American, Bill Scheel, City Council, David Cavazos, Downtown Development Office, Downtown Phoenix, Facadism, Frank Fairbanks, Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Preservation Office, Jahna Berry, Jay DeWitt, Mike Davis, Peter Swann, Phil Gordon, Robert Sarver, Southwest Value Partners, Sun Mercantile, W Hotel, Warehouse District
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March 31, 2006
While visiting the online Skyscraper Forum, a Phoenix resident found renderings of architect Will Bruder’s proposed design for the W Hotel and condo project. One view looks southeast along Jefferson Street between US Airways Center on the west and Suns parking garage on the east (where you can get an inkling of how the back [...]
Posted in Historic Preservation, Sustainability |
Tags: ALERT!, Bill Scheel, City Council, David Cavazos, Downtown Development Office, Facadism, Frank Fairbanks, Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Preservation Office, Mike Davis, Phil Gordon, Phoenix Suns, Robert Sarver, Southwest Value Partners, Sun Mercantile, Will Bruder
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March 5, 2006
According to the National Park Service, responsible for maintaining the National Register of Historic Places, no property listed on the Register would stay on the Register if descrecrated as originally proposed for Phoenix’s historic Sun Mercantile.
That doesn’t mean creative architectural design or adaptive reuse of historic properties can’t occur. Examples exist right here in Phoenix. [...]
Posted in Coordination of Planning, Diversity and Cultural Inclusion, Downtown Vitality, Education, Historic Preservation |
Tags: ALERT!, Asian American, Bill Scheel, City Council, David Cavazos, Downtown Development Office, Downtown Phoenix, Facadism, Frank Fairbanks, Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Preservation Office, National Park Service, Phil Gordon, Phoenix Union H.S., Robert Sarver, Southwest Value Partners, Sun Mercantile, University of Arizona
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March 3, 2006
The San Francisco-based Nichi Bei Times published an article in their February 23, 2006 edition about the Save SunMerc Coalition’s effort to preserve the Sun Mercantile Building and develop an Asian American Museum. The author, Sam Chu Lin, contributes to various newspapers and reports for KTTV Fox 11 News in Los Angeles. The same article [...]
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Tags: ALERT!, Asian American, Bill Scheel, City Council, David Cavazos, Downtown Development Office, Facadism, Frank Fairbanks, Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Preservation Office, Mike Davis, Nichi Bei Times, Phil Gordon, Robert Sarver, Sam Chu Lin, Southwest Value Partners, Sun Mercantile
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January 21, 2006
[Source: Angela Cara Pancrazio, Arizona Republic] – If Mary Lum’s Mesa house ever caught fire, she would grab the only thing she cares about: a plastic storage box overflowing with photos and documents, her great-grandmother’s green card and a hand-colored photo of herself with her sister Suzie taken in Hong Kong before they came to [...]
Posted in Arts and Culture, Diversity and Cultural Inclusion, Downtown Vitality, Historic Preservation, Sustainability |
Tags: ALERT!, Angela Pancrazio, Asian American, Bill Scheel, City Council, David Cavazos, Downtown Development Office, Downtown Phoenix, Facadism, Frank Fairbanks, Gold Mountain, Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Preservation Office, Mary Lum, Mike Davis, Phil Gordon, Robert Sarver, Southwest Value Partners, Sun Mercantile
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