By Corina Vanek | Phoenix Business Journal
A planned $1.8 billion, multiphased mixed-use project, which includes a Ferris wheel, will go before Tempe City Council on Thursday.
South Pier Tempe Holdings LLC, an entity of McBride-Cohen Management, was the successful respondent to a city-issued request for proposals for the site about three years ago, and the plans have been in the works since then, Maria Laughner, economic development program manager for the city of Tempe, said. The city had been working to develop the site since 2006, but those plans went dormant during the Great Recession.
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