The Phoenix Center for the Arts event on Dec. 11 will feature guest speakers, mural artists and 3-D projectors showing the history of different downtown buildings on digital murals from eight different time periods, alongside images of the imagined future.

Self-proclaimed foodies Jay Veniard and Jessica Combest have brought their appreciation for food to downtown Phoenix through their Taste It Tours and their sales of olive oil and balsamics at their store in the Orpheum Lofts, Urban Olive Oils and Balsamics.

The Downtown Phoenix Partnership’s Phoenix Ambassadors may be best known for their bright orange shirts that encourage passers-by to “Ask Me!” questions, but ambassadors also serve the community as security and emergency responders.

Discount Cab will launch a new mobile application that will allow customers to rate drivers and pay for their fare with their credit card.

We-Cycle-USA, a recycling bicycling shop, relocated to the heart of the emerging warehouse district in August, at 521 S. First Ave., on the corner of First and Lincoln avenues. We-Cycle was originally founded in Mesa by Robert Chacon.