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Claiming to be the first independent cinema in Phoenix since 1981, FilmBar will open on Thursday after a year of renovation that turned a warehouse into a cozy theater seating around 70.

LGO Public House, a restaurant affiliated with the group behind popular restaurant La Grande Orange, will no longer open in CityScape, but the Downtown Phoenix Partnership is working to find them another location downtown.

Freshman journalism major Patrick Ryan was one of the 23 people recently laid off from the Urban Outfitters at CityScape. Including Ryan, 10 ASU students had their jobs terminated.

LUX Coffee Bar will soon move from its current location to a bigger locale next door and offer costumers new menu items such as cocktails and appetizers.

Construction of a new Westin hotel at the Freeport-McMoRan building is nearing completion.

Two years after Civic Space opened there are mixed feelings over whether or not the park has been a success, but many agree that more people at the park would be good.

CityScape, the $900 million complex of retailers in downtown Phoenix, will celebrate its grand opening this weekend with a large-scale block party including Mayor Phil Gordon’s State of Downtown address, a Friday morning coffee give-away and free performances by Macy Gray and Third Eye Blind, according to the president of the Downtown Phoenix Partnership.

Seventy-five students, businesspeople, developers and all other kinds of entrepreneurs and innovators will gather on Friday in downtown Phoenix and work for 54 hours straight to develop new startup companies.

The 9th Annual DIGNITY Candlelight Awareness Walk led city activists, families, girl scouts and former prostitutes through one of the most heavily-trafficked intersections in Phoenix to rallying calls against prostitution and the pimps working in the area.

Downtown Phoenix has reorganized its First Fridays Art Walk by eliminating the part of the event responsible for street closures and vendors along Roosevelt Row.