By Caitlin McGlade | The Arizona Republic
Winding balconies, roughly 130,000 square feet of office space behind white columns and lattice-stucco walls, a courtyard of sprawling bougainvillea and channels for streams.
They all lie silent. The channels mere dry trenches.
Six years ago, the hulking Santa Barbara mission-style complex at 91st and Glendale avenues was part of something big. A spirited commercial-development boom unlike anything Glendale had ever seen. At its inception, the city had spent three years issuing permits for nearly 1.8 million square feet of office space, with nearly a third of the projects along Glendale’s stretch of Loop 101 in the sports and entertainment district.
There were plans for cbd 101, Westgate City Center, 91 Glendale, Main Street and Zanjero Falls Corporate Oasis, which was one of the area’s first major office complexes.
Glendale’s economic-development director, Brian Friedman, had 65 projects in the sports district going at once then. Some came to fruition, others did not.
The $45 million Zanjero Falls is on the market for $11.7 million.
