The Downtown Phoenix Partnership wants a bigger budget so as to increase their influence, but that means raising taxes for local businesses. The DPP is also looking to expand their cultural events and expand their boundaries on top of maintaining their current programs.
Union at Roosevelt, a new mixed-use development on Roosevelt Street and First Avenue, will fill a lot that has been vacant for over 50 years. The building is being developed by Metro West Development and is the first of 13 projects to secure part of the $20 million Sustainable Communities Collaborative fund.
Despite the ASU wide tobacco-free smoking ban that began Aug. 1, downtown smokers aren’t putting out their cigarettes because their peers and not the police enforce the ban.
The Walter Cronkite School will drop Final Cut Pro and adopt Adobe Creative Suite 6, Premiere Pro and Audition, according to an email sent to students from Christopher Callahan.
After last year’s successful nationwide Bill Murray house-crashing tour, the 20th anniversary tour of the movie Groundhog Day begins this Saturday in Phoenix.
