A Silver Bullet For Downtown Phoenix
22 September 2004 - 11:00am
Downtown Phoenix will be reshaped if officials purchase $30 million worth of land for a downtown ASU campus.
"If the [Phoenix City] council approves the purchase, it would be the first land bought for ASU's planned Capital Center campus and constitute about 25 percent of the land needed... 'Very rarely is there a silver bullet in economic development. But this is one of those times.' "
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Phoenix close to buying land for downtown ASU
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The Arizona Republic, September 21, 2004
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