Business

Shine Coffee has added its brick-and-mortar location on the corner of Central Avenue and Vernon Street. The coffee shop will sell original recipes for coffee, pastries and seasonal beverages.

John “Frenchy” Dinane brings Caribbean-style food to downtown Phoenix in a form of a street corner hot dog cart.

On a regular Friday night, the Arizona Center is buzzing with people eating dinner or watching a movie, but a new art gallery in the center now offers a different entertainment option.

As is its nature, Third Friday brings the focus back on the art from the party vibe of First Friday. For this month’s edition, the highlights run far and wide, featuring downtown’s wildest open-mic, twin exhibitions from local mixed-media stars, and a peek at the finer side of the scene via guided tour bus. Style and variety are must-haves to break Phoenix into the art world’s upper-echelon, and this week’s artwalk has it in spades.

Butter Toast, a clothing boutique located on Roosevelt and Sixth streets, will close shop and put its name to rest in February to make way for another vintage shop in the spring.

A new jewelry store in the Arizona Center opened earlier this month. Avir Jewelry is located between Cold Stone Creamery and Sports World. The owner said he hopes to create jewelry that reflects the buyer's view of the world.

Elephants Trunk, an eclectic antique store, offers a wide array of products including anything funny, bright or ugly as the owner describes it. The store opened earlier this month and is located at 5th and Garfield streets.

If Grand Avenue were a street on the Monopoly board, Beatrice Moore would be its owner. But instead of identical, characterless little red and green plastic houses lining the roadway, each unique structure has an interesting story to tell, just like the woman behind their preservation.

A new restaurant will be taking over the small retail space inside Grand Avenue’s Bragg’s Pie Factory mid-February, bringing with it familiar vegan and vegetarian food and for the first time, pie.

As the Phoenix City Council prepares to make its recommendation on whether a new Circle K at Seventh and Roosevelt streets should receive a liquor license, both sides have started petitions voicing their opinions.