Tag: Kenny Barrett

Three vintage clothing stores along Sixth Street may share a customer base, but each store retains a clear identity, which helps foster a certain cohesion and friendship among the shops.

At the 14th annual effort by HandsOn Greater Phoenix to renovate locations throughout Phoenix on Saturday, about 100 people spent the morning painting downtown's Growhouse and fixing up the A.R.T.S. Market lot on Roosevelt Row.

The existence of an urban campus at ASU provides the opportunity for a truly unprecedented level of experience-based learning. We are not, however, operating anywhere near optimal levels of interaction, and the tension threatens to disenchant community leaders and students.

For Kenny Barrett, co-founder and director of Roosevelt Growhouse and project manager for Roosevelt Row Community Development Corporation, it was never a question of if he would make an impact on the downtown Phoenix community. Rather, it was a question of how.

Students from the Student Residential College Advisory Board have been volunteering each Sunday at Growhouse, planting vegetables and produce.

Bud's Glass Joint will open in early September on Roosevelt Row, selling glass pipes and other smoking products.

The Valley of the Sunflowers project is in its final season in its current location, but could pop up in another vacant lot in the future.

Tuesday’s Downtown Devil Discussion focused on what the campus offers students and what it needs to do to keep them from leaving for Tempe.

Valley of the Sunflowers will plant and harvest sunflowers twice a year on a two-acre vacant lot in downtown Phoenix.