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Vacant lots you don’t see along light rail
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Lamps made from used plastic bottles are featured in a new book about reclaiming and remaking interiors. ALVARO CATALAN DE OCON/PRESTEL
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ousehold objects, industrial cast-offs and vintage farm tools — all these and more are being salvaged and upcycled into lighting fixtures that range from elegant to funky to pure wow. The trend is evident at such eateries as Malai Marke, a stylish Indian restaurant in New York City’s East Village, where light in the dining room glows from bulbs surrounded by green wine bottles arranged in a circle; empty but corked. See UPCYCLING, Page 3R
The next time you ride light rail or drive along the many main streets it chugs down from Phoenix to Mesa, imagine as many as 25 more vacant lots and empty, rundown buildings along the route. One of those empty lots would have been on the southwest corner of First Avenue and Roosevelt Street. That prime corner in downtown Phoenix had been vacant for more than 50 years. MetroWest Development had to move utility and water lines, narrow a street by a lane and close a short, oneway street before it could start construction on the Union@Roosevelt apartments earlier this year. The MetroWest project and at least two dozen other Valley infill projects are up or underway because of Valley nonprofit Sustainable Communities Collaborative, which was created to support housing and redevelopment near light rail. Sustainable Communities worked with MetroWest for more than two years to get the site at First and Roosevelt ready and help it get financing. Last week, days before the opening of the Mesa extension of light rail, Sustainable Communities landed $30 million more in funding to bring more new housing and businesses to low-income communities along the tracks as well as highvolume bus routes. “People stay away from infill because it takes some heavy lifting and creative thinking while working with many groups and governments. It’s not easy to close a road in car-centric cities,� Arizona growth expert Shannon Scutari told me. “But the city of Phoenix and many others saw it was worth it to build Union@Roosevelt, a place that makes it easy to bike and walk to light rail.� She is one of the founders of Sustainable Communities Collaborative, a partnership of more than 35 groups and governments that was funded four years ago with $20 million from the Local Initiatives Support Corp. and the Raza Development Fund. That $20 million was used to leverage financing for $375 million in development. Local Initiative and Raza also furnished Sustainable Communities latest funding. There had been high hopes for development along light rail when it was planned and built during the boom. SevSee REAGOR, Page 3R
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