ASU in Downtown Phoenix

Folks is Phoenix are pretty excited about Arizona State University's plan to develop a major downtown campus. It's a good move for Phoenix, but how does Tempe really feel about it. That's another question.

The "blueprint of the future," as Phoenix is calling it, calls for a 15,000-student Arizona State University downtown campus less than a mile from a bioscience center filled with thousands of workers and researchers. The city's convention center is being tripled in size to attract more events, prompting the city to commit to building a 1,000-room hotel with public money.

Adding fuel to the storm are plans for 10,000 more housing units, up to 700,000 square feet of new retail, restaurant and entertainment space, and a light-rail system that will link downtown to Tempe and Mesa.

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