[Source: Casey Newton, Arizona Republic] — A plan to locate the county’s major transit and planning agencies in downtown Phoenix is on life support following the Phoenix City Council’s opposition to tax breaks for the project. For more than a year, the Maricopa Association of Governments, the Regional Public Transportation Authority, and Metro light rail [...]
Archive for July 17th, 2008
Census shows older U.S. cities hold on to more people, Phoenix slows
July 17, 2008[Source: William H. Frey, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program, The Brookings Institution] — Newly released U.S. Census Bureau population data for U.S. cities show a new twist on a well-known theme that could be good news for older cities hoping to reverse population declines of the past. The familiar part of the report indicates that [...]
Phoenix spared (so far) from Starbucks closures
July 17, 2008Starbucks has not identified which 600 stores it plans to close between now and March 2009, but the news is “filtering” through baristas, the press, and others. If you know of a Starbucks that’s closing, let the Seattle Times know (as they’re compiling a nationwide Google map). And for coffee alternatives in our fair city [...]
Downtown Phoenix parking rate jumps 50%
July 17, 2008[Source: Andrew Johnson, Arizona Republic] — The median monthly parking rate in Phoenix’s central business district jumped 50% to $52.50 from a year ago, according to a survey by commercial real-estate broker Colliers International. Yet, Phoenix had the third-cheapest median rate in the country behind Bakersfield, Calif. ($40 per month) and Reno ($45 per month).
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