AZ Briefing: Tower proposed at Biltmore Fashion Park criticized

June 9, 2024
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Good morning, Arizona. Here’s what our reporters are working on and what you should know before you start your day.

A tower at Biltmore Fashion Center that could reach 165 feet tall is one step closer to approval, despite complaints about a dearth of details about what the project will be.

Phoenix-based RED Development and mall owner Macerichhave proposed a tower at the southeastern corner of Biltmore Fashion Center, an area that’s being used for surface parking.

The site had been planned for a tower since the specific plan was approved in 2006, but the plan did not come to fruition when the rest of the project was built.

More about how the idea was resurrected and the new plan.

Frontier Family Park opens in East Valley

A person walks over a bridge beside a playground during the grand opening of Frontier Family Park in Queen Creek on June 8, 2024.

Vanessa Abbitt/The Republic

It’s been nearly two years since the Queen Creek Town Council voted to begin development of a $66.4 million park near Signal Butte and Queen Creek roads. The Frontier Family Park opened on Saturday.

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Today in history

Here are just some of the events on this date in the past.

•	On this day in 1902: Future U.S. President Woodrow Wilson became president at Princeton University, where he remained until deciding in 1910 to run for governor of New Jersey. Wilson, an 1879 Princeton grad, called on fellow alumni in 1910 to help reconstruct colleges to develop students into people serviceable to the nation with “the same sympathies as the common people.” Wilson, a Virginia native, later was criticized for instituting segregationist policies within the federal government while president and discouraging Black people from attending Princeton.
•	In 1972: Bruce Springsteen signed a contract with Columbia Records. His debut album, “Greetings From Asbury Park,” was released about seven months later.
•	In 1978: Latter-Day Saints leadership ended their religious prohibition of Black men serving in the church as priests. It had been in effect since 1852, when Brigham Young, the church’s second president, declared it. The church maintains that Black people continued to join through baptism, noting its founder, Joseph Smith, openly opposed slavery toward the end of his life despite the customary practice at the time.
•	In 1989: U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., who had the sixth-longest tenure in congressional history, first proposed a bill seeking a commission to study slavery reparations for African Americans. Conyers reintroduced the bill each year until his retirement in late 2017.
•	In 1990: MC Hammer’s “Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ’Em” hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and it was at the top for a total of 21 weeks. The former Oakland A’s batboy got his nickname Hammer in the 1970s. Slugger Reggie Jackson has said he thought Hammer, born Stanley Burrell, looked like home-run king “Hammering” Hank Aaron.
•	In 2017: Singer-songwriter Glen Campbell’s final album, “Adios,” was released after his last tour and prior diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. Campbell died about two months after the release.

Fallen Gila River officer honored at memorial service

Officer Joshua Briese was killed in the line of duty while responding to a disturbance in the Gila River Indian Community.

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AZ Briefing: Tower proposed at Biltmore Fashion Park criticized

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Other big stories

Frontier Family Park opens in East Valley

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Fallen Gila River officer honored at memorial service

Teen charged in Lord killing admits to 2 ‘Goons’ beatings

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