By Darren DaRonco | Arizona Daily Star
Downtown Tucson will soon have one less empty building now that a social services agency received the green light to build an affordable housing complex on the site of a dilapidated, though historic, motor lodge.
The State Historic Preservation Office said Compass Affordable Housing may demolish most of the former Downtown Motor Hotel as part of its plans to turn it into affordable housing for low-income veterans and others who want to live and work in the burgeoning downtown core.
Armory Park residents opposed the plan, saying it would rob the neighborhood of a historic property designed by famed Tucson architect Josias Joesler.
