'Green' developer makes plans for 2 Scottsdale complexes

A Phoenix-based developer of environmentally friendly projects is moving ahead with plans to develop a three-story complex with 42 units - this time apartments instead of condominiums - on a 1.8-acre strip of land in south Scottsdale. Vivendi Apartments will be built on land behind Holy Cross Lutheran Church, north of Thomas Road and west of Hayden Road, by Modus Development LLC. The company also will begin construction this fall on Modus Zero, a seven-unit "green" apartment complex north of Camelback Road and across the Arizona Canal from the Safari Drive condominium complex. That will be downtown's first new apartment complex in more than a decade. The Scottsdale City Council approved the rezoning and site plan for a condominium complex for the Vivendi site in 2007, but economic conditions made it unfeasible to develop it at that time, said Ed Gorman, president of Modus Development. "This is not the same proposal that the city considered in 2007," he said. "While the site plan remains essentially the same, the project has been redesigned from the ground up to reflect today's tastes, style, technology and advancements in sustainability."

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