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First Street is open to traffic again, but will continue to be under construction until mid-October.

On the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, events around the city commemorated the tragedy. Crowds filled the streets of Phoenix for a walk which started at the Chase building on North Central Avenue, honoring those who lost their lives in the attacks.

The Valley of the Sunflowers project broke ground Friday at the corner of N. Sixth Street and E. Garfield Street. The cooperative effort between the City of Phoenix, the Roosevelt Row Community Development Corporation, Phoenix Union Bioscience High School and Intel will produce two crops of sunflowers, one in the fall and one in the spring.

Nearly a decade after the terrorist attacks that took so many lives and forever changed those left in its wake, the diverse downtown Phoenix community is reflecting and remembering in its own way.

The Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS will move into the former home of KPNX on Central Avenue due to its proximity to the light rail and the Downtown campus, said Carol Poore, the center's president and CEO. The old KPNX building is at 1101 North Central Avenue.

The City of Phoenix approved a proposal Wednesday for the construction of a $17 million parking garage downtown.

The weeklong event aims to raise money for the Phoenix Children’s Hospital's cancer treatment through drink purchases and donations at six participating coffee shops around the Valley. The event began Monday and runs through Sunday.

I walked in the red wooden door of the Firehouse Gallery and expected a stage. Instead I saw a stove, a sitting area and a kitchen counter.

Many of Phoenix's elite politicians were out in full force around the Downtown campus Tuesday night to celebrate former Councilman Greg Stanton's first-place finish in the city's mayoral election, placing him in a November runoff with Wes Gullet.

The Margaret T. Hance Park Master Plan Steering Committee met with ASU students to discuss a remastering plan that will transform the park space into a cultural and recreational centerpiece of downtown Phoenix.