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Arizona Center is a shopping center and office complex located in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. Nickname: Valley of the Sun Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona Coordinates: Country United States State Arizona Counties Maricopa Incorporated February 25, 1881 - Mayor Phil Gordon (D) Area - City 475. ...
Arizona Center was designed by the Rouse Company (on its festival marketplace model, which worked to great success in other cities) and opened in the fall of 1990 to great fanfare and high expectations, as it was considered one of the original components of the ongoing downtown revitalization efforts in Phoenix taking place since the early 1990's. The Rouse Company, founded by James W. Rouse in 1939 and publicly held since 1956, is a shopping mall and community developer. ...
A festival marketplace was a concept of James W. Rouse (1914-1996) and the Rouse Company in the United States to revitalize downtown areas in major cities in the late 20th century. ...
The expectations were high since it was developed by the same firm that created the highly successful Faneuil Hall Marketplace (Boston) and Harborplace (Baltimore); Arizona Center was hoped to be a retail, dining and entertainment magnet which would jump-start interest in downtown redevelopment, but some critics felt suburban-oriented Phoenix was not ready to embrace a downtown development of this caliber, and in some regard the critics were correct: by 2003, a massive second-story food court, similar to those found in suburban shopping malls, was closed and reconfigured into office space for local architectural firm SmithGroup. [1] Critics have also pointed out the relative scarcity of permanent upscale apartment and/or condominium housing in the immediate vicinity as a factor in the lackluster performance of the mall [2]. Most of the residential districts surrounding the downtown area are middle-to-lower income, not adequate to support the middle-to-high end marketing mix that Arizona Center set out to provide. Faneuil Hall, east side Quincy Market Faneuil Hall, located near the waterfront and Government Center in Boston, Massachusetts has been a marketplace and a meeting hall since 1742. ...
Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1 Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino (D) Area - City 232. ...
Harborplace is a festival marketplace in Baltimore, Maryland, that opened in 1980 as a centerpiece of the revival of downtown Baltimore. ...
Nickname: Monument City, Charm City, Mob Town[1][2] Motto: The Greatest City in America[3], Get in on it. ...
Food court at the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City in Arlington, Virginia. ...
It has been suggested that Retail park be merged into this article or section. ...
An apartment estate in Singapore; such blocks make up the majority of public housing in Singapore. ...
A condominium, or condo for short, is a form of housing tenure. ...
Arizona Center features two office buildings (one of which is the headquarters of local electric utility Arizona Public Service or APS) and 120,000 square feet of retail space (including a 24-screen AMC movie theater), built around richly landscaped courtyards and fountains. While no longer the huge draw it was designed to be at inception, it still draws relatively healthy lunchtime office-worker crowds to its remaining eateries, as well as large numbers of local residents (from the largely blue-collar and middle-class neighborhoods surrounding downtown) on weekends to the movie theater, which is the only one for several square miles. Out-of-town conventioneers, tourists and sports fans who come downtown to attend games of the Phoenix Suns and Arizona Diamondbacks also provide acceptably healthy foot traffic. An electric utility subsidiary of the public company Pinnacle West. ...
It has been suggested that AMC Cinemas be merged into this article or section. ...
The Phoenix Suns are a professional basketball team, based in the Phoenix, Arizona. ...
Major league affiliations National League (1998–present) West Division (1998–present) Current uniform Name Arizona Diamondbacks (1998–present) Ballpark Chase Field (1998–present) formerly known as Bank One Ballpark (1998-2005) Major league titles World Series titles (1) 2001 NL Pennants (1) 2001 West Division titles (3) 2002 • 2001 • 1999...
In the summer of 2006, Arizona State University announced plans to use 4000 square feet on the second floor as a student union for its newly expanding Downtown Phoenix branch campus. [3] Arizona State University (ASU) is a public institution of higher education and research with several campuses located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. ...
A students union, student government, or student council is a student organization present at many colleges and universities, often with its own building on the campus, dedicated to social and organizational activities of the student body. ...
Arizona Center's fortunes are expected to revive as a 30-story Sheraton hotel is under construction across the street and expected to open in late 2008. Also, several high-end condo projects in the downtown area are either under construction, newly opened, or in the planning stages. sheraton is a late 18th century neoclassical English furniture style, in vogue ca 1785 - 1800, that was named afterwards (by 19th century collectors and dealers) to credit furniture designer Thomas Sheraton, whose books of engraved designs capture this style. ...
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