Once a student bookstore and sandwich shop, now Tempe’s experimental 13-story apartment building
Arizona Republic
If Tempe City Council approves it on March 7, a developer will build 208 apartments in a 13-story tower with only 38 parking spaces—the lowest number of any project in the city outside of Culdesac Tempe, which was designed as a “car-free” community. The half-acre lot is near the Valley Metro light rail, the Tempe streetcar and the Orbit circulator bus, leading commissioners to believe this is a good test case for letting the market determine the parking needs. A project of this size usually would require 172 parking spaces.
