For Star subscribers: The widened Broadway, east of downtown Tucson, reopened last week with great hopes for redevelopment. But it needs more housing development for the strong vision to come true.
Tim Steller Listening to the speeches at the reopening ceremony for the East Broadway reconstruction project on Thursday, you could be convinced by the vision.
People are also reading… Now two local developers, Larsen Baker and Grant Krueger, are joining the redevelopment rush, working to turn the area along Broadway, between Euclid Ave and Country Club Road, into an entertainment and food hub. The areas along Broadway — neighborhoods like Rincon Heights, Arroyo Chico, Broadmoor and Sam Hughes — may have enough money to support some business, but they are not particularly densely populated. They're filled with single-family homes on sizable lots, like much of the development from that mid-20th century era.
The proposal ran into the typical form of Tucson resistance: Neighborhood objections. Residents of the neighborhoods along Broadway, to the north and south, protested that tall buildings would block their views, crowd neighboring homeowners, and create traffic and parking woes. Over to the west, near Euclid, the limit is seven stories. South of Safeway at Broadway and Campbell, there is the potential for a 12 story building.
"The ones built downtown have been successful," Wadlund told me Friday,"but it’s so expensive to build, so expensive to operate." Parking deficit, transit solutionAmanuel Gegremariam, owner of Zemam's, 2731 E. Broadway, told me he's counting on outsiders making his expanded business a place to come and relax and enjoy themselves.
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