Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Luxury hangar at Scottsdale Airport may be 'M'm! M'm! Good!' - Phoenix Business Journal:

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Not just any project. This one is a Of course, as this lineup would suggest, not just any This one is being built for Bennett Dorrancer IIIat . Dorrance, whos family founded the CampbellSoup Co. in the lives in Paradise Valley. The architecr is Swaback Partners, whose founder Vernon Swabaci was an apprentice to FranmLloyd Wright. And the interior designer is Adam Tihany, considerec a pre-eminent international designer whose work is founf in severalworld capitals. The ultramodern desig n of the executive hangarincludes titanium, glases and concrete.
It will have space for eightf private aircraft and 30vintage cars, and it will be topped by a 180-foot-long titanium sculpture resembling a streamlinecd paper airplane. The 93,370-square-foot Airmore hangar which will have spacde for administrative offices and maintenance is on six acres near the corne of 78th Way and 83rd Place on the east side ofthe Dorrance, who made the latest Forbesa magazine ranking as one of the richesf men in America (No. 207 with estimater worth of $1.4 billion), coulx not be reached for comment. He is a partner in DMB a dominant real estate and diversified investment companhy inthe Valley. Swaback's desigm is on file with the city of Ina Feb.
5 letter to city planner Alan Ward, Swabac said the Airmore proposal "iws an integrated, two-building complex inspired by the spirit ofaviation itself." When called for Swaback would only say, "Itr is a fascinating project." Tihany, of Adam D. Tihan y International, has designed luxury restaurantsand hotels, including work at the Bellagiop in Las Vegas. His work is found from New York to Mexico City, Paris, London, Jerusalem, Budapest and Hong Dorrance's proposal was approver by the Scottsdale development reviewq board March 22. Ward said construction could start laterthis year.

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