Sundt Construction will work with architect Adam Weinstein

Sundt Construction will work with architect Adam Weinstein of Rio Development Company on the Monier Building, the first building to be erected in the Mercado District of Rio Nuevo, a redevelopment project in downtown Tucson. The building, containing 30,000 square feet of retail on the ground floor and 48 residential condominium units on the second and third levels, will be designed to “encourage pedestrian and street life,” Weinstein says. Construction is set to begin in the first quarter of 2006. Rio Nuevo is projected to be a $1 billion undertaking that will help Tucson add 2,000 residential units to its downtown. In 2004, Bill Dennis, as director of the Albuquerque office of Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists, planned the Mercado District, which makes up about 14 acres of the 62.5-acre Rio Nuevo.