Due to high vacancy percentages in Phoenix’s past, the city, businesses and community organizations are creating new venues and events to fill the unused spaces.

A new restaurant will be taking over the small retail space inside Grand Avenue’s Bragg’s Pie Factory mid-February, bringing with it familiar vegan and vegetarian food and for the first time, pie.

After two years of planning and construction, the ASU Downtown campus student center is finally unveiled for students and faculty.

Each semester, winds of change bring new students to the Downtown campus, and each year downtown Phoenix sees itself shift as new businesses, residents and opportunities take root. For the Downtown Devil, the beginning of the semester — and new calendar year — marks a change in leadership and a wealth of opportunity.

The Scripps Howard Journalism Entrepreneurship Institute brought university professors together to the Walter Cronkite School to discuss practices, tools and ideas to teach entrepreneurial journalism.