I don't get to Chandler much living in Central Phoenix, and was amazed at how its downtown has changed the past 12 years. And yet Chandler has managed to keep some 30-40-something year old commercial buildings from getting bulldozed long enough for Gangplank to colonize them. Good work! There's enough fever-dream post-proto-modernist glass bead games going on over the past decade out there already. But they do have some cool bus stops.
Anyway, back to gangplank - a gaggle of geeks renting seemingly true brick construction, onsite carpentered roof trussed nondescript commercial boxes that must've housed companies bankrupted by Home Depot and Walmart decades ago now repurposed for a cadre of self employed graphic design- and webheads.
And growing - Tyler, chief webhead told me they're gonna take over 260 S Arizona as a conference center.
Keep taking over those ancient buildings guys - downtown Chandler needs to remember what it was way back in the disco era!
Seriously though, this is a wonderful thing happening in too few places around the Valley - saving disposable buildings from being bulldozed off to the landfill and re-using them as incubators for creative entrepreneurs almost as young as the buildings themselves.