California-based Granite Capital Investments plans to build a development called Phoenix Ballpark Properties, which will include apartments, retail and office space, between Third and Fourth streets and Lincoln Street and the railroad tracks.

Leave the kids at home--this puppet show is adults-only. The Great Arizona Puppet Theater puts on a monthly Adult Puppet Slam to give its puppeteers a chance to show off all their skills. The theater is a member of the national Puppet Slam Network.

To combat the rise of human and sex trafficking cases that will come with the Super Bowl to Glendale in 2015, the City of Phoenix Human Trafficking Task Force is coordinating with local and federal anti-trafficking efforts to prepare. Escort ad activity on Backpage - a classifieds website - increased from 28 two Thursdays before the 2012 Super Bowl to 118 the Thursday of the game.

Following a break-in last week, the downtown Phoenix community rounded up support for Lawn Gnome Publishing by creating a cash mob on Tuesday afternoon. Participants from as close downtown Phoenix and as far as Boston, donated books and cash to help the store in its time of need.

Downtown community members have rallied around Lawn Gnome Publishing following a Thursday night robbery of approximately $1,500 worth of equipment and employee paychecks.