Tag: Sean Sweat

Volunteers from across the Valley helped to complete the second and final harvest of downtown Phoenix's Valley of the Sunflowers project Saturday morning.

Community members and Phoenix officials met last month to view plans to revamp the sidewalks and roadway of Roosevelt Street. During the meetings ,concerns with the plans and with downtown as a whole surfaced, including light-rail access and parking.

Ignite @ ASU brought students, staff, faculty and community members together Wednesday for an evening of rapid-fire presentations. With the evolution of community as the the theme of the night, 11 presenters took the stage to share their thoughts and concerns regarding their community's issues.

Phoenix’s public spaces were discussed on Wednesday evening by a panel of community activists as part of the last Downtown Devil Discussion of the semester.

Although the controversy continues to rage over plans for a downtown Phoenix dog park, the Margaret T. Hance Park Steering Committee voted to approve a temporary dog park at a meeting held March 6 at Burton Barr Central Library.

At about 2:55 p.m., the Downtown Devil took down an article published March 7 called “Location suggestion for temporary dog park voted down by Hance Park committee.”

Community advocate Sean Sweat is proposing a new location for a downtown Phoenix dog park, which he has pushed for since August 2010.

Molded by a middle-class Texas upbringing and an Ivy League graduate degree, Sean Sweat is a man of contradictions. He can act like an apologetically brash cowboy, but he’s a thoughtful, rising star in the emerging world of digital grassroots activism. He’s a white-collar worker – a supply-chain engineer at Intel – who fights Phoenix City Hall and battles urban blight. Now, he’s a leader in Occupy Phoenix, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Despite record ridership in recent months that has exceeded most official expectations, Metro Light Rail may see a fare increase this summer to coincide with proposed increases for the rest of Valley Metro’s public-transit services.

A local architect hopes to revitalize the Grand Avenue area, an arts district that has struggled since the recession, by implementing a rail project that utilizes historic trolleys.