By Garin Groff, Tribune
November 9, 2006
It takes a crane to build tall buildings, and a dozen of them have sprouted up in Tempe’s skyline. “And there are a dozen more on the way,” Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman said Wednesday.
Those cranes will bring an unprecedented change to the East Valley’s skyline, a look the city showed off for the first time Wednesday as it released a computer-animated video of new buildings coming soon to downtown and Town Lake.
The video offered the best idea yet of what Tempe will look like with a 30-story condo tower and several other buildings that range from 12 to more than 20 stories. The footage gives a bird’s-eye view, as if it were shot from a helicopter, and reveals the planned buildings from multiple angles.
While the local and nationwide real estate market has slowed and even killed some projects, Hallman said the downtown’s features have made the area immune to larger market forces.
“It doesn’t apply here,” he said.
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