Local blogger and downtown Phoenix resident wonders if the CityScape project is going to turn out to be Collier Center #2? In his blog, Life in Downtown Phoenix, he writes:
“Anyone disagree that by January 2011, CityScape will only comprise two blocks of (mediocre) retail and a single high-rise? (A carbon copy of the Collier Center, as I originally suggested in February 2007?)
Granted, this is a position on which I’d like to be wrong. But the signs all point one way — the most telling coming a few months ago when the project’s developer, RED Development, split the incentives in its development agreement so that it could receive half of the promised millions from the city even if it only built one tower at CityScape. Right now, RED is saying that it’s building the office tower on the block on the east side of Central and Washington streets, but that the hotel/condo tower will follow in a few months.” [Note: To read the full blog entry, click here.]
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