Tag: Sean Sweat
A look ahead: Phoenix Urban Design Week 2017
The sixth-annual Phoenix Urban Design Week (PUDW) kicks off Friday with a variety of events meant to encourage attendees to reimagine our city.
Dorina Bustamante,...
Phoenix to make LED streetlights warmer
The Phoenix City Council will award a contract for new LED lights to Ameresco at a lower temperature of light, after community concern was raised.
Proposed Holiday Inn Express OK’d by Capitol Mall Commission, awaits further approval
As the old Holiday Inn near Sixth and Fillmore streets prepares to close, a new Holiday Inn Express near the State Capitol at Tenth Avenue...
Community organizations urge for use of dimmer LED street lights in city plan
As the city plans for the potential color temperature conversion of all of its street lights, some community organizations have questioned whether the street...
Neighborhood associations protest alley abandonment
The development of an apartment complex, which will be owned by Hines Real Estate, is sparking debate about alleyway abandonment between neighborhood associations and...
Preservationists push against using affordable housing for Circle Records building tax break
Worries mount that affordable housing will be used as tax break leverage. The developer says it will cut rents on 5 percent of units for the incentive
City Council reduces rents on certain micro-apartment units in return for tax incentive
The project will receive a 25-year tax incentive through a GPLET agreement. Ten units will have $840 rents after community petition.
Community petitions for affordable housing on micro-apartment project before vote on use of incentive
A citizen petition to require affordable housing at new 19-story apartment building must be addressed by City Council on Wednesday.
Micro-apartment project may receive property tax incentive
A city subcommittee cleared a development agreement on Wednesday for Derby Roosevelt Row, a 19-story project on Second and McKinley streets.
Opinion: Prop. 104 is critically important for the future of transportation in Phoenix
President of the Thunderdome Neighborhood Association Sean Sweat writes why he thinks students should vote yes on Prop. 104. If passed, the proposition would replace the current 0.4 cent sales tax with a 0.7 cent sales tax that would go toward transit and streets.