Community

Aaron Chamberlin, owner of central Phoenix restaurant St. Francis, plans to turn the former home of the Phoenix Public Market into a new restaurant.

CityScape celebrated Black Friday with a vintage market, and set up its ice skating rink for the third year — this time on Central Avenue.

Phoenix artist Isaac Caruso, described by members of the community as driven and persistent, has evolved from paintings to spray paint, and plans to move to Los Angeles early next year.

The Revival Art Collective, a cooperative gallery, studio and tattoo shop, is described by a co-owner as a way to combat the separation between the type of art found in a gallery and the type of art found on someone’s skin -- a tattoo.

Ruth Carter is anything but an ordinary lawyer: Her specialties include flash-mob law. She works with Improv AZ and is in charge of making sure the flash mobs that the group organizes are legal.

A project that would allow downtown drivers the option of paying for parking meters with a credit or debit card is in the final stages of City Council approval and is scheduled to begin implementation in January 2013.

Mayor Greg Stanton kicked off PHX Renews on Monday, which will transform a vacant lot on the northeast corner of Central Avenue and Indian School Road into an area for urban farming, sustainable technology, outdoor education, art displays and social spaces.

Roosevelt Row Community Development Corporation has made its New Year’s resolution – place six businesses into 40 feet by 8 feet by 8 feet repurposed shipping containers along Roosevelt Street by April 2013.

The congregation formerly occupying the Historic First Presbyterian Church now has an uncertain future after the acquisition of the church by Mesa-based City of Grace. Many of the former occupants' members now live in the suburbs.

Roosevelt Row Community Development Corporation held a series of community discussions about how it should use $150,000 of grant money between 19th Avenue and 16 Street along Roosevelt Street.