View 32 is a proposed high end, 5 story apartment building for 600 feet North of the Northeast Corner of Shea and 32nd Street.  Read here for the full case report submitted to the city about View 32.

The Paradise Valley Village Planning committee is having some upcoming meetings regarding the proposed building. The meetings and hearings are welcome to the public. You can come to learn about the case and let your opinions known.  If you cannot make it to the meetings the contact person for this case is Racelle Escolar | 602-262-6949| racelle.escolar@phoenix.gov. Mrs Escolar can answer questions about the Village review.

Open House Neighborhood Meeting

Date: May 27, 2015

Time: 6:00pm

Location: Shadow Mountain High School Cafeteria

2902 E Shea Blvd

Phoenix, AZ 85028

Planning Commission Hearing

Date: June 9th, 2015

Time: 6:00pm

Location: City of Phoenix Chambers

200 W Jefferson Street

Phoenix, AZ 85003

City Council Hearing/ Ordinance adoption

Date: July 1st, 2015

Time: 1:00pm

Location: City of Phoenix Council Chambers

200 W Jefferson St, Phoenix, AZ 85003

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Here is Councilman Bill Gates interview with KJZZ regarding the View 32 proposal and other revitalization along 32nd Street.  Councilman Gates mentions the View 32 a a way to bring more families to the area, and creating an art space along 32nd street.

 

 

Arizona Builder’s Exchange recently wrote an article about the proposed View 32 apartments.

A multifamily residential development proposed for 4 acres north of the northeast corner of 32nd Street and Shea promises to be a step toward fulfilling Phoenix’s sweeping vision to transform 32nd Street to a magnet for residential and commercial investment and a place where residents can live, work and play.

The proposed urban infill project near the intersection, View 32, would comprise 60KSF consisting of 147 units for a density of 36 dwelling units per acre.

Todd & Associates is the architect and landscape architect. The applicant is Ed Bull with Burch & Cracchiolo, and the owner is M. Diane Hamel Trust c/o Michael Martindale.

A general contractor has yet to be hired, and it was not known at press time if a civil engineer had been hired.

The project is in the early stages of a rezoning request for a planned unit development. City staff has given initial feedback on the project, and a revised plan is expected back at the city within two weeks.

If all goes smoothly, the tentative date for a hearing by the Paradise Valley Village Planning Committee is May 4. Public hearing dates have yet to be set for the Phoenix Planning Commission and the City Council.

Design to highlight Phoenix Mountains Preserve

View 32’s architecture and character have been designed to highlight the view of the Phoenix Mountain Preserve south of the site. The building is oriented north/south to maximize the solar orientation. The height of the building increases on the eastern portion of the site, adjacent to the SR51 freeway.

View 32 is planned as a high-quality, gated, urban development to include about 89 one-bedroom units and 58 two-bedroom units ranging in size from about 723SF to about 1,067SF.

Amenities would include a pool and spa, a 4KSF clubhouse, courtyards and plazas with outdoor kitchens, barbeque area and fire pits, a private dog park, and other gathering and entertainment areas. The clubhouse includes a leasing area, modern fitness center, clubroom, conference room, computer room and mailroom.

The east part of the building includes a podium structure on the ground floor that supports 4 stories of residential units while the building’s west portion includes ground-floor residential units surrounding a pool with 4 stories of residential units.

The south building elevation is U-shaped, framing a ground-floor area with courtyard amenities, creating common space.

The building is contemporary in style, materials and color, which is consistent with the North 32nd Street Corridor Plan’s vision and character of the area.

Balconies are recessed to break up the solid exterior face of the building and to create strong shadow lines that capture the movement of the sun.

The residential units will be wood frame and stucco with accents of metal cladding. There is an accent stucco color and metal balcony railings, which further breaks up the mass of the building, adding visual interest. Interior environments will be kept cool by recessed windows, awning overhangs and steps in the building volume.

Public, private effort to rejuvenate 32nd Street

Continual efforts between public and private entities are expected in the rejuvenation of 32nd Street.

Phoenix plans road improvements to Shea Boulevard between State Route 51 and North 32nd Street, a road diet for 32nd Street, and branding signs at the entrances to the corridor on light poles.

The Shea Boulevard improvement project will re-purpose the one-eighth-mile corridor of Shea Boulevard by reducing the curb to curb width to about 64 feet from the existing width of 94 feet.

Bike lanes would be added in both directions along North 32nd Street and wider sidewalks would be built. The target date for beginning construction is January 2016.

The road diet calls for the removal of one vehicular northbound travel lane and addition of bike lanes on both sides of North 32nd Street between Shea Boulevard and Hartford Avenue.

The project includes a microseal of North 32nd Street from Hartford Avenue to Shea Boulevard except between Greenway and Thunderbird Road, which will receive a rubber overlay. The project is expected to be completed this spring or summer.

The poor quality of the street between Thunderbird Road and Greenway Road requires the street to be milled and resurfaced with rubberized asphalt. The project also includes modifications to several traffic signal poles and the addition of traffic cameras at several intersections.

To bolster the visual identity of the area, the Phoenix Arts and Culture’s Public Art Program will choose artists to work with the community to design artworks to be attached to light poles along 32nd Street from Shea Boulevard to Bell Road. The design process is expected to begin this spring.

Please join the community conversation about the proposed 32 View apartments.

The next community Meeting will be Monday March 16th at 6:00 pm at Shadow Mountain High School-media Center.

Discussions will include an overview of the application, Site Plan and Building elevations, updates and revisions since the first meeting that took place February 3rd, and answers to questions.

Here is a picture of the proposed landscape and elevation.

 

The site of the 4.06 gross acres is located at approximately 600′ north of the Northeast corner of 32nd Street and Shea Blvd.

The purpose and intent of the planned unit development, View 32 is to enable the redevelopment of this challenging long rectangular shaped- underutilized infill site within the North 32nd Street corridor, View 32 is planned as a high quality, gated multi-family development of 147 residential units.  There is an existing retail/office building that will be demolished.

The City of Phoenix Village Planner assigned to the case is Racelle Escolar. If you have any questions she can be reached at 602-262-6949 or racelle.escolar@phoenix.gov.

Come have your voice heard at the meeting on Monday.

 

 

 

The Phoenix Business Journal wrote an article abut the North 32nd Street revitalization.

Phoenix revitalization vision could redevelop strip malls

The city of Phoenix is looking at a plan to revitalize neighborhood commercial areas and help landowners revamp or remove excess or outmoded strip malls.

The recession was a death knell for many strip malls. Today, they have high vacancy rates and some four-corner locations have more shop space than shop potential. As the centers decline in occupancy, quality of stores and viability, the buildings do as well. Phoenix is considering an initiative that will reverse the trend.

“Freeways put an end to that drive-by traffic,” said Phoenix Community and Economic Development Director Christine Mackay. “Take 32nd Street from Shea Boulevard to Union Hills Drive. After SR 51 opened, traffic on the street dropped from 50,000 vehicles per day to around 10,000 vehicles. That’s taking 80 percent of the customers away from the stores.”

Most often referred to as “strip malls” to reflect the linear design, the centers typically featured plenty of local or neighborhood-oriented business. Customer traffic came from nearby with the growing number of commuters spilling out of subdivisions further up the road.

But as freeways began to snake across the Valley — starting in 1990 when Interstate 10 was extended through the city — the centers started drying up as commuters took to the highways.

“The movement of traffic away from the neighborhood centers really cut into businesses’ abilities to survive,” said Mackay. “It also hurt revenue streams for shopping center owners. Space became vacant and some centers started to look shabby.”

For 32nd Street, the effort is ongoing because there are no funds to improve the segment. That is not stopping stakeholders from putting ideas on the table through council members Jim Waring and Bill Gates.

“We’ve been meeting in other neighborhoods as well, and people are saying that they want to have a neighborhood ‘center’ that’s walkable,” Mackay explained. “The city is going to take a look at the various blocks and work with land owners to see what kinds of different development might be better to bring back vitality.”

Mackay said residents would like something to provide a neighborhood anchor or attraction.

“We could look at a business or city service branch moving into a neighborhood as one idea,” she explained. “In other cases, where a neighborhood center may be obsolete, we could explore changes in zoning to better use the property to meet current neighborhood and market needs.”

As a community we can help turn the neighborhood around.