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Old 08-25-2022, 11:48 AM
 
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The iconic hotel that generally brought giggles and guffaws to people driving down Oracle has been sold to the city of Tucson. The property will be converted into low income housing. It's a much needed end of an era.


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Old 09-20-2022, 05:01 PM
 
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From the article:

"Last week the city bought the No-Tel Motel for $875,000, with plans to change it first into a homeless shelter and soon into a cute affordable housing project for older adults."


How much do you wanna bet the project never moves past "homeless shelter"?
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Old 09-21-2022, 05:51 AM
 
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From the article:

"Last week the city bought the No-Tel Motel for $875,000, with plans to change it first into a homeless shelter and soon into a cute affordable housing project for older adults."


How much do you wanna bet the project never moves past "homeless shelter"?
I work about a block away, not even a senior citizen with an extremely tight income is going to want to live in that neighborhood voluntarily.

But I applaud any effort to provide housing to some of the homeless people that I've met in the area. Working poor that got hit with an unexpected curveball and two missing paychecks later they find themselves living out of their car. But that's a small percentage of the the homeless. The majority need mental health facilities and drug rehab.
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Old 09-21-2022, 08:55 AM
 
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I went to a meeting at the Monterey Court, a vintage motel converted into shops, restaurant, and a courtyard meeting/dining space. I think these iffy neighborhoods are going to gentrify at an ever-increasing pace.
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Old 09-21-2022, 10:01 AM
 
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I went to a meeting at the Monterey Court, a vintage motel converted into shops, restaurant, and a courtyard meeting/dining space. I think these iffy neighborhoods are going to gentrify at an ever-increasing pace.
That neighborhood has all the ingredients for gentrification. Takes me less than 10 minutes to pick up my wife after work from her downtown office, it's a couple of minutes away from I-10 and all that shopping and food places along Oracle.

We used to live in the Coronado neighborhood in Phoenix and watched from a mile away the gentrification of the Roosevelt area. Roosevelt was even dicier and seedier than the area of Oracle from Prince down to Grant. Took less than 5 years for it to turn.
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