What a big crock of shit! I first visited here in 1990 and 21 years later, I've never seen such a massive undertaking to urbanize and build high rises, send rent & lease rates skyrocketing, and now a huge vacancy rate! What happened to Borders, Cold Stone Creamery, Plantation Coffee? Harkins Theaters? This place is losing character more and more every year, and their answer always seems to be, tear down and build prettier buildings that they can sell back to ASU as a hedge! What a joke.
What they fail to show is the transient mob of homeless ASU dropouts and nutty progressive activists that have been wondering around aimlessly for a decade... begging for change, protesting meat eaters, and kumbayaing in their rasta garb. No thank you... my money is better spent in Scottsdale, Chandler, or Gilbert. Trying to recapture the good ole days in the 80s have long past. If Jerry Maguire can't put you back on the map... nobody can.
ok for a marketing puff piece to 'sell' the street. obvious selection of images to slant the point of view. not really a 'history', but what can you do in 7 minutes? how or why Trevor Barger was asked to be in this? oh, i remember, he likes the hi-rises. and Nancy H. has been here...? appreciate most the business owners sticking with it to any place! one person said "Downtown Tempe", that's an important concept; x, y, not z above 60 ft. hope the taxpayers didnt pay for this.
its completely crazy to see how much mill has changed!! we've definately had our fair share of good times there...
trapperkeeperaz 6 months ago
What a big crock of shit! I first visited here in 1990 and 21 years later, I've never seen such a massive undertaking to urbanize and build high rises, send rent & lease rates skyrocketing, and now a huge vacancy rate! What happened to Borders, Cold Stone Creamery, Plantation Coffee? Harkins Theaters? This place is losing character more and more every year, and their answer always seems to be, tear down and build prettier buildings that they can sell back to ASU as a hedge! What a joke.
redboar 10 months ago
I love Mill Ave. Thumbs up if you do too!
cackums 10 months ago
yea me too. no mexicans there.
dontrustwhiteyever1 1 year ago
@dontrustwhiteyever1 What's wrong with living among Mexicans?
H1MLA 1 year ago
Tempe is the only place I would ever live in in Arizona.
pnzzr 1 year ago
I call this a "puff piece" and how truthful it is or how respectful Tempe has been of its past is completely left out.
cliftongal51 1 year ago
Hey... BTW... how are those high rise condos doing???
jxwhit8 1 year ago
interesting. And here I thought Mill ave. was a place for drunken ASU kids
17894fd 1 year ago
@17894fd it is and i am one GO SUN DEVILS!!!
dontrustwhiteyever1 1 year ago
What they fail to show is the transient mob of homeless ASU dropouts and nutty progressive activists that have been wondering around aimlessly for a decade... begging for change, protesting meat eaters, and kumbayaing in their rasta garb. No thank you... my money is better spent in Scottsdale, Chandler, or Gilbert. Trying to recapture the good ole days in the 80s have long past. If Jerry Maguire can't put you back on the map... nobody can.
jxwhit8 1 year ago
ok for a marketing puff piece to 'sell' the street. obvious selection of images to slant the point of view. not really a 'history', but what can you do in 7 minutes? how or why Trevor Barger was asked to be in this? oh, i remember, he likes the hi-rises. and Nancy H. has been here...? appreciate most the business owners sticking with it to any place! one person said "Downtown Tempe", that's an important concept; x, y, not z above 60 ft. hope the taxpayers didnt pay for this.
mARCarchitectureaz 1 year ago
I love this video. =)
silvershrivastava 1 year ago
This is fantastic! I see a future where Apache Blvd reinvents itself like this.
PsychoShocker1000 1 year ago