Phoenix is finally getting a real skyscraper — and a lot more glass

For fifty years, the Phoenix skyline has had the same ceiling. Chase Tower — 483 feet, completed in 1972 — has been the tallest building in Arizona since before most of the people managing it were born. That's about to change.

Arro: 541 feet of new glass downtown

Aspirant Development's Arro project (recently rebranded from Astra) is planned as a two-tower, 1.8-million-square-foot development on Second Avenue between Van Buren and Fillmore. The north tower is designed to reach 541 feet — which would make it not just Arizona's tallest building, but Phoenix's first true skyscraper by the technical definition of 492 feet or more. The south tower is planned at 425 feet with Class A office, retail, and co-living space.

The program is a vertical city: a 380-unit Class A+ residential tower, a 250-key luxury hotel, large-floorplate offices, and a multi-level rooftop restaurant on the top two floors. The developer expects the project to be permit-ready by the end of 2026, with roughly a three-year construction timeline.

Meanwhile, the old king gets a second life

Chase Tower itself isn't going quietly. The building has been gutted, environmental work is complete, and the City of Phoenix expects redevelopment to move in 2026. Add the 2,600+ residential units already under construction downtown, and you get a simple picture: more towers, more residents, and a lot more glass in the sky than Phoenix has ever carried.

Who's going to keep all that glass clean?

Here's the part nobody puts in the press release. Every new tower in the Valley is born into one of the harshest climates in the country for architectural glass — monsoon dust, hard-water overspray, and 300+ days of sun that bakes mineral deposits into the facade. A 541-foot building doesn't just need window cleaning; it needs an access plan: certified roof anchors under OSHA 1910.27, a BMU or rope-access strategy designed alongside the architecture, and a maintenance calendar that starts the day the curtain wall goes up — not three years later when tenants complain about the haze.

That's the work we do. If you manage a tower — existing or arriving — our high-rise window cleaning page covers how we access and maintain the Valley's tallest buildings, and every engagement starts with a free site walk through quote my building.

The skyline is growing up. We'll be on the ropes when it does.