Contending with ever-changing residential market needs and a complex site alongside Tempe Town Lake, the team constructing three multifamily towers at South Pier in Tempe is making rapid progress to take the concrete towers vertical. Ranging from 21 to 23 stories tall, the high-rises known as Lot 6 make up the first phase of a $1.8-billion mixed-use development that will eventually include multiple apartment, condo, hotel and office towers along with an entertainment pier jutting out into the lake.But that same body of water also added challenges to the foundation work, which penetrates three levels down into the Salt River’s alluvial soil and cobble. In the early 2000s, some site preparation and geotechnical work had been completed, but plans for the area at that time stalled due to the recession, and the site sat untouched, until now.The current iteration of Lot 6, developed by Silverstein Properties and South Pier Tempe Holdings LLC, a subsidiary of McBride-Cohen Management, places it at a key spot on the south side of Tempe Town Lake, which will eventually be surrounded by the Novus Innovation Corridor, a 10-million-sq-ft mixed-use urban space where private businesses and Arizona State University will collaborate on various technologies.Lot 6 architect Davis joined the project in 2021 and inherited some early programmatic design work from another firm that had been performed when the project was initiated by another developer t …
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