Featuring a mix of arcade games, local art, “chiptunes” and boutique items, Weston Henry's new venture, Cade, opens March 4 for First Fridays in downtown Phoenix. Six or seven arcade games line one wall of the small storefront on North Fourth and East McKinley streets. Art hangs on the walls, and the rest of the boutique is filled with t-shirts and other local products.

The Downtown Phoenix Ambassadors will host the Downtown Phoenix Mardi Gras Parade, Festival and Mardi Crawl on Friday, March 4.

For Leonard Fleszar, the owner of Lenny’s Burger, a chain of throwback burger joints across Arizona, creating his own business wasn’t easy. But now, more than 30 years later and during a recession that has seen many restaurants forced to close up shop, he’s about to open a new location in Glendale.

A crime of opportunity known as “smash and grabs” was predicted by some to be a problem in downtown parking lots when the Downtown campus opened, but it has not turned out to be one, an ASU official said.

Phoenix residents will pay 7 percent more for water starting April 1, according to a water rate increase approved by the Phoenix City Council on Feb. 23. The increase will affect students living in Phoenix and may also affect residents of Taylor Place.