Rio Nuevo Project in Tucson Update

The Rio Nuevo Project  snail pace update

 

For the last eight years all of Tucson has been waiting for the downtown  development of Rio Nuevo to come to fruition.

New landmarks have been promised and then put on hold in the downtown Tucson area.

It would be great to see a significant progress to Central Tucson, but it appears that we are going to have to wait at least another year again for most of the projects to get off the ground.

It appears to be the same old story. I have been telling visitors that came three to four years ago, that it would take 4 to 5 years to completion….not four to five years to get started.

The only project that seems to be getting off the ground ,and that has made progress over the last year, is the former Martin Luther King Apartment  Building now called One North Fifth.

 

 

I remember many years ago when I was a Home Health Nurse, taking care of a disabled man that lived at the complex, and it was in dire need of redevelopment then. It is a welcome change to see the remodeling of the Building as I drove passed it the other day.

Courtesy of Tucson Citizen….original building.

 

 One North Fifith  will have studio and one bedroom apartments for rent in the complex, and and it will also encompass retail units below.

The complex will also have athletic facilities, and underground parking plus a great roof deck to take in  a 360 view of the Catalina Mountains, the Tucson Mountains, the Rincon Mountains and the Santa Rita Mountain range at one time.

It is situated close to the Hotel Congress, the Rialto Theatre, the University of Arizona,  4th Avenue shopping, the Tucson Convention Center,  and the  Arts District.

It will be a flagship for the downtown revitalisation project, of Rio Nuevo  and should help other projects to get off the ground.