Photo via Rio Nuevo Board of Supervisors
Cathalena E. Burch | Tucson.com
Four years after a pair of Tucson entrepreneurs announced plans to create a foodie-centric collective in the Bungalow Block, a new developer has stepped in to jumpstart the project.
Developer Peter Anadranistakis told the Rio Nuevo Board of Directors on Wednesday that he has 10 letters of intent from businesses interested in coming to what he has dubbed Tucson Gastro Park, including Barrio Bread and Talega Coffee.
The site is on the north side of Broadway, from Cherry to Warren avenues, where Rio Nuevo rescued historic 100-year-old bungalows from the Broadway widening project in 2019.
Anadranistakis told the board workers have been on-site since Sept. 17, the day he took sole ownership of Thelma and Louise Development LLC, the company Tucson developer Randi Dorman and hotelier Moniqua Lane formed in 2021 to build the Tucson Gastronomy Collective.
