PHOENIX — Scottsdale-based Aspirant Development has been busy planning major projects in and around downtown Phoenix over the past year.
News broke this summer about the company's plans to move forward with a 45-story tower and mixed-use project called Astra after it was first proposed several years ago. If built, Astra will be the tallest tower in Arizona.
Meanwhile, Aspirant Development, a sister company of Empire Group of Cos., has been preparing to turn a vacant infill property at the northern edge of downtown into a mixed-use project with another residential high-rise.
To be built at 1500 N. Central Ave., the project is slated for a 25-story multifamily tower and a 2,500-square-foot art gallery along Central Avenue and two additional restaurant and retail buildings along McDowell Road.
