![]() A classic 1940s motel some 4 miles to the north of downtown Tucson is on the market for $2.2 million. Located on a busy suburban stretch of N. Oracle Road in the 1900 block, the Highland Tower Motel was built in 1941 and houses 24 rooms. Of those two dozen rooms, half feature kitchenettes. Advertised in the Arizona Daily Star in 1987 as a place to get a good night’s sleep for “people who make frequent business and shopping trips to Tucson,” the Highland Tower Motel is designated as a Class B building measuring just over 7,600 square feet. The property was once part of a string of motels dating to the 1930s and 1940s on Oracle Road, otherwise known as the Miracle Mile Strip, that were negatively impacted by construction of the nearby Interstate 10, which routed traffic elsewhere. The rectangular-shaped motel, formerly advertised as the “Finest in the Southwest,” sits on a just over 1-acre site and is being offered for sale by the Long Realty Company of Tucson. Unlike many of the motels along N. Oracle Road that have undergone name changes through the decades, the Highland Tower Motel has had the same name since it first opened for business more than 80 years ago. By Garry Boulard
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