A vacant shopping center at the Dorsey Lane light rail station in Tempe is slated to become affordable housing and a new grocery store, according to a plan approved by Tempe City Council.
Tempe owns two noncontiguous parcels near Apache Boulevard and Dorsey Lane. One of the sites contains a now-vacant shopping center that had been anchored by a Food City grocery store. The site is also near the EnVision Tempe, a city-run resource hub that offers programs like employment assistance, technology access and support, cooking and nutrition programs and other services.
Tempe picked Dorsey Development Partners and Palindrome to redevelop the site into about 400 units of rental housing and a new grocery store, called Dorsey Station. Dorsey Development Partners is led by Charles Huellmantel and Todd Marshall…