Student Housing Shakedown

Presentation did little to convince some Tucsonans that tearing down 12 historic homes in favor of five-story student housing is a good thing.Tucson residents groaned as developers showed them slides of fancy modern high-rises coupled with words like "vision," "analysis" and "refinement." The blowback was probably not what the Tempe-based architect had hoped to hear when showing a PowerPoint presentation at a neighborhood meeting last week.…