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Civic Plaza's $600M Renovation Ramps Up

PHOENIX-Construction kicks off this week on overhaul and expansion of the Phoenix Civic Plaza to more than triple the space in the CBD complex. The city hopes the project, set to be completed in 2009, will lure conventions and trade shows to the downtown.

By Beverly Ford | Updated on December 01, 2003

PHOENIX-Workers will begin giving the Phoenix Civic Plaza a facelift this week when they begin construction on a $600-million expansion project that will more than triple the plaza’s space.

Crews have already begun relocating the plaza’s utilities and sidewalks along Montor and Fifth streets in preparation for next month’s full-scale excavation work that will add exhibition space under the plaza’s street level. By May, crews will begin demolishing the terrace between Symphony Hall and the Herberger Theater and replace it with an underground parking garage and 367,000 sf of subterranean exhibition space. A west building, with 940,000 sf of rentable space, also will be constructed on the site. An arcade will allow pedestrian access between Symphony Hall and the theater and an atrium will link the symphony building to the plaza’s west wing. Ringing the west building will be a coffee shop, theater box offices, arts gift shop and possibly a restaurant.

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