{"id":238,"date":"2006-08-24T06:09:04","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T13:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2006-08-24T06:10:46","modified_gmt":"2006-08-24T13:10:46","slug":"i-think-theyre-trying-to-turn-this-into-a-little-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/238\/i-think-theyre-trying-to-turn-this-into-a-little-new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix rising: “I think they’re trying to turn this into a little New York City . . . “"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s a debatable point, but Angela Cara Pancrazio of the Arizona Republic<\/i> has a sweet feature in today’s paper on how cranes are remaking the skyline of Phoenix<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Phoenix is rising again. And the cranes have arrived, reaching into a city and stretching its torso upward. With the exception of the sports arenas and a couple of skyscrapers, there hasn’t been such a vertical climb all at once since the real estate market crashed in the late 1980s.<\/p>\n

The ubiquity of construction cranes is altering perceptions of the skyline from downtown Phoenix to Sky Harbor International Airport to Tempe Town Lake and beyond.<\/p>\n

The praying-mantislike machines are doing the heavy lifting on two 12-story towers at Hayden Ferry Lakeside in Tempe and on the new air traffic control tower at Sky Harbor.<\/p>\n

In downtown Phoenix, they’re in constant motion, erecting a 31-story Sheraton hotel, the Biosciences Center and Phase 2 of the Phoenix Convention Center.<\/p>\n

And Mack is at the helm of a tower crane at one of three residential high-rises.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Technorati Tags: arizona<\/a>, arizona real estate<\/a>, phoenix<\/a>, phoenix real estate<\/a>, real estate<\/a><\/p>\n

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That’s a debatable point, but Angela Cara Pancrazio of the Arizona Republic has a sweet feature in today’s paper on how cranes are remaking the skyline of Phoenix: Phoenix is rising again. And the cranes have arrived, reaching into a city and stretching its torso upward. 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