Located in the Northeast of Phoenix, Arizona, CityNorth will be a mixed-use urban development featuring retail, restaurant, residential, hotel, office, culture, civil and entertainment in a pedestrian-friendly environment. On completion, CityNorth will consist of more than 5,500,000 square feet (0.51 km 2 ; 0.20Ã, sqÃ, mi) development at 144 acres (0.58 km 2 ; 0.23 square meters mi). Imagined by Thomas J. Klutznick as the urban core of the Northeast Valley of Phoenix and the commercial core for the master-planned community of Desert Ridge, CityNorth is located near the intersection of two major highways - Loop 101 and State Route 51, making it accessible from throughout the Phoenix metropolitan area. The development will be phased in starting with Stage One, High Street, which opened in November 2008.
CityNorth is being developed with the help of a $ 97.4 million tax incentive package which is at the heart of the lawsuit between Phoenix and Goldwater Institute. The upcoming phase for CityNorth has been suspended due to economic conditions.
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Developer
CityNorth is being developed by Thomas J. Klutznick Company. The initial phase, called CityCenter of CityNorth, is being jointly developed by Thomas J. Klutznick Company and Associated Companies. Both companies are known for developing well-known, complex and sensitive projects on the site. Among these are Chicago Water Tower Place, 730 North Michigan Avenue, 340 at the Park and 333 West Wacker Drive; Fox Plaza office tower in Los Angeles; Boston's Copley Place; Time Warner Center New York; Reston Town Center, Reston, Virginia; CityPlace, West Palm Beach, California; Lodging & amp; Links at Spanish Bay, Pebble Beach, California; and Little Nell hotels, Aspen, Colorado.
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Summary of CityNorth master plan
Mixed-Use Development: 3,000,000 square feet (0,28 km 2 ; 0,11Ã, sqÃ, mi)
- Office Above Retail: 450,000 square feet (0,04Ã, km 2 ; 0,02Ã, sqÃ, mi)
- Retail & amp; Restaurant: 1,200,000 square feet (0.11 km 2 ; 0.04 m² mi)
- Residential Above Retail: 1,300,000 square feet (0,12Ã, km 2 ; 0,05Ã, sqÃ, mi)
Single Use Expansion: 2,500,000 square feet (0.23 km 2 ; 0,09Ã, sqÃ, mi)
- Office: 2,500,000 square feet (0.23 km 2 ; 0,09Ã, sqÃ, mi)
- Residence: 1,500 - 2,000 units
- Hotels: 200-500 rooms
Pengembangan Total: /- 5,500,000 kaki persegi (0,51 km 2 ; 0,20 sq mi) hingga /- 6.000.000 kaki persegi (0,56 km 2 ; 0,22 sq mi)
Fase 1 - High Street
High Street opened in November 2008. It consists of restaurants, retail, housing and offices in about 20 acres (81,000 m 2 ). On July 1, 2010, High Street through foreclosures is returned to lenders who provide construction financing. High Street tenant information is available at www.citycenterofcitynorth.com.
Stage 2 - The Boulevard
Phase 2 has been delayed, partly due to a downturn in the Arizona economy and partly due to the Goldwater Institute lawsuit, Turken v. Gordon , against a $ 97.4 million economic development agreement with Phoenix City for the project.
Projected Economic Benefits
The following projection is based on estimates provided by Phoenix City and Thomas J. Klutznick Company.
City Tax Revenue
Construction Sales Tax
- City - $ 21,200,000
- Country - $ 57.3 million
Jobs Created
- 16,000 during construction
- 19,000 during operation
In July 2009, CityNorth has provided substantial economic benefits including:
- $ 6.5 Million in development and tax expenses of commercial, restaurant, construction, retail, and residential rental.
- Local work includes 75 subcontractors with about 600 construction workers for phase one.
- Much Intangible for Phoenix City
Goldwater Institute position
The Goldwater Institute disputes these claims, thinking they are too much. One study found two mistakes to CityNorth's economic impact.
- Phoenix City assumes that no malls will be built without subsidies, while also assuming that any sales tax dollars generated from CityNorth will go to another city without the existence of a mall.
- Phoenix City assumes that the goods and services at CityNorth have no cost because they do not reduce the retail cost of the profit. For example, the City assumes that the retail store at CityNorth also creates the clothes it sells.
According to Dr. Wells, "The impact of the gross economy exaggerates the real impact because they assume no economic activity will happen the other way around - for example, that if you do not buy shoes at CityNorth you will not buy shoes at all, and it assumes that no one will buying shoes will be built if CityNorth is not developed as proposed.Additionally Elliot Pollack and Company estimates exaggerate the gross retail impact by 50 percent in jobs and 75 percent in terms of economic output. "
According to the Goldwater Institute, the economic impact is less than $ 500 million per year, almost a quarter of the city's forecast impact.
Claim, Turken v. Gordon
To develop CityNorth, Thomas J. Klutznick Company. signed a sales tax incentive agreement with Phoenix City in which the Klutznick company will save 50% of all sales tax dollars collected at CityNorth, up to $ 97.4 million or for 11.3 years. This sales tax incentive puts CityNorth in the center of a lawsuit filed by the Goldwater Institute, which seeks to challenge corporate subsidies in Arizona. In return for $ 97.4 million Klutznick will allow Phoenix to lease 3,180 parking spaces, 200 of which will be reserved for city bus carpoolers. The lease will last 45 years.
On April 2, 2008, Maricopa District Superior Court Judge Robert Miles decided to support Phoenix City and Thomas J. Klutznick Company, the developer of the CityNorth project. Judge Miles rejected the Goldwater Institute claim that City's deal with CityNorth violated Arizona's Constitution. He decided that the economic activities generated by CityNorth were "undoubtedly" for the public good. The Goldwater Institute has since responded by appealing the ruling.
Developers CityNorth and Phoenix City filed a claim at the Maricopa County High Court on April 22, 2008, requesting that the court order the Goldwater Institute to pay legal fees incurred against the lawsuit. The CityNorth submission states that the Institute "exacerbates the length and complexity of litigation with irrelevant 'experts' who do not even read the agreement, and shows a reckless indifference to large disruptive fiscal and business interests." According to the filing of City of Phoenix, "Not only the Goldwater Institute is continuing this action knowing that it may be ordered to pay the cost and the cost of the city, it litigated this case in a way that increases its scope and cost far beyond what is required to fully demand dispositive. "
The Goldwater Institute believes that the attorney's fee request violates the terms agreed by all parties during the trial. Clint Bolick, head of litigators for the Goldwater Institute, said: "The courts almost never give lawyers a fee to a company that seeks to defend the public's rights, the reason being articulated by Arizona Supreme Court Justice Stanley Feldman in the same case, Wistuber v. Paradise Valley Unified School District, the parties agree to set the legal parameters for the Gift Clause in which the CityNorth case is filed. "
Mr. Bolick insists that constitutional cases, such as Turken v. Gordon, rarely winning at lower court levels, and expecting victory in the appeals court to be more likely.
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The deal between City of Phoenix and CityNorth's developers allows CityNorth to be built as a solid urban project designed to fight sprawl and reduce traffic. Without incentives for parking garages, it is likely that more than half of the development will be consumed by parking lots, limiting the number of businesses that generate sales. As stated in Judge Miles' verdict, "The agreement is designed to ensure that the constructed project provides reflected benefits - particularly large tax revenues - on schedule and at a level more beneficial to the public than others, different projects are configured that may be built in site. "
No City funds are advanced and no risky City tax revenues. Developers must bear all $ 1.5 billion cost estimates to develop CityNorth and bear all financial risk. CityNorth is projected to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenues for City and thousands of jobs. CityNorth will pay for itself with the revenue it generates. Judge Miles stated, "The value of the money to be received by this agreement is based on the tax-revenue revenues generated by the CityNorth project of 1.2 million feet of retail space to be built by the developer before it can receive payments from the city.... Under the agreement, the city is projected to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in sales tax in the future to be used for its chosen public purpose. "
Goldwater Institute position
The Goldwater Institute claims incentives are company subsidies, which are illegal under the Arizona constitution.
According to the Goldwater Institute, Phoenix will pay more than $ 30,000 per year to rent 200 carpool parking spaces over the next 45 years. Ironically the city, which claims the incentives are not subsidies but market-based incentives, can buy and own 6,950 parking spaces in the parking garage at the same price paid to rent 200. The Goldwater Institute also gets a record of lawyer fees for the city, claiming that Phoenix spent more from $ 10,000 per week to maintain subsidies.
The Goldwater Institute also believes that the city has overstated the benefits of the project. The city estimates the impact of $ 1.9 billion while the Goldwater Institute study believes the real impact will be less than $ 500 million. The Goldwater Institute also believes that no net benefit will be generated from subsidies because the mall will be built anyway because of the high demand for shopping in the fast-growing and prosperous Phoenix section. Dr. Wells also questioned the public benefits of the CityNorth project, finding that the area in which CityNorth is being built has an average income per capita of $ 21,000 higher than the rest of Phoenix and the demographic population around CityNorth is 3 times more likely to be white than the rest of the Phoenix.
According to the Goldwater Institute, subsidies violate three Arizona state constitutional provisions, the Clause of Rewards Clauses, Privileges and Immunities Clause, and Special Law Clauses. The Goldwater Institute believes that incentives are nothing more than corporate subsidies aimed at rewarding a politically sound connection.
Arizona Supreme Court Decision
On January 25, 2010, the Arizona Supreme Court overturned the Court of Appeal's decision and allowed CityNorth's agreement to stand. The court upheld that Phoenix City and Klutznick Company acted in good faith based on more than 25 years of case law. The Court's decision confirms that an agreement between the government and private developers such as CityNorth should have direct benefits to the government. Any indirect benefits, such as employment and sales tax increment may not apply to the transaction, as a result. Thus, future agreements must do two things: determine what the government will accept, and make sure that the benefits the government receives in return satisfy the government's investment in the deal.
References
External links
- www.CityNorthAZ.com
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