TEMPE, AZ — A developer has pitched a new student apartment complex to the Tempe City Council multiple times over the past year, and each time, neighbors say the project does not fit in their community.
The proposed development, called Marshall on Spence, would take shape as a 7-story apartment complex on Spence Avenue. It would be built on a parcel smaller than one acre — the current site of the Tempe Palms Apartments, built in the 1970s— and would include 296 bedrooms and 89 parking spaces.
Phil Amorosi, co-chair of Citizens for a Vibrant Apache Corridor, has voiced concerns of traffic congestion and a towering building that does not fit in his neighborhood…