Old Motorola radar tower demolished in Tempe as office park takes shape

A Motorola radar tower at Elliott Road and the Loop 101 in Tempe was demolished May 12, clearing room for the planned Discovery Business Campus. Wentworth Property Company and partner Northwood Investors purchased the property from Freescale Semiconductor in 2011 for $53.7 million. Freescale is a spinoff of Motorola that was formed in 2004. The demolition of the 60-foot Motorola tower, which was built in the 1970s, served as Wentworth’s first step toward developing a 136-acre office park. Wentworth plans to target innovative and high-tech companies for the development. In the next phase of construction, Wentworth plans to renovate several of the other buildings on the property, build a road around them and plant 900 trees.

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