Posts Tagged ‘Sun Mercantile’
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 6, 2006
On the evening of March 5, 2006 Sam Chu Lin collapsed after landing at the Burbank Airport and did not recover. Cause of death is pending an autopsy. Sam was one of the first and most well-known broadcast journalists of Chinese heritage. His tenure at CBS was successful and long (including a stint as anchor [...]
Posted in Coordination of Planning, Diversity and Cultural Inclusion, Downtown Vitality, Downtown Voices Coalition, Historic Preservation, Luxury Housing |
Tags: Warehouse District, Sun Mercantile, Asian American, Barry Wong, Sam Chu Lin
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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 [...]
Posted in Coordination of Planning, Diversity and Cultural Inclusion, Downtown Voices Coalition, Historic Preservation, Sustainability |
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 28, 2006
[Article and photo by Angela Cara Pancrazio, Arizona Republic, Phoenix Section, Page 2] – Former State Rep. Barry Wong is deeply involved in trying to stop developers from building an 11-story condo and mixed-use tower on the top of the Sun Mercantile Building, the last reminder of Phoenix’s lost Chinatown. As chairman of the Save [...]
Posted in Diversity and Cultural Inclusion, Downtown Vitality, Historic Preservation, Sustainability |
Tags: ALERT!, Angela Pancrazio, Asian American, Barry Wong, Downtown Phoenix, Sun Mercantile
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