This week on CenPhoTV (03-26-2010)
Friday March 26 is the opening night of the newest exhibit at the Alwun House. It’s called light house, and will feature illuminated works by over 30 artists, and the gallery lights will stay out. You’re encouraged to show up in your on illuminated outfit, and there will be a prize for the best. There … Read more
Cigna opening downtown Phoenix clinic
[Source: Angela Gonzales, Phoenix Business Journal] — Cigna Medical Group is opening a CareToday clinic in downtown Phoenix. This will be Cigna’s ninth CareToday clinic in the Valley. Construction workers are refurbishing a 1,400-square-foot space formerly occupied by Quizno’s on the northwest corner of Central Avenue and Adams Street. Plans call for opening the … Read more
Downtown Voices statement on proposed demolition of Sahara/Ramada Hotel for parking lot
To the Mayor, City Council, ASU Officials, City Staff, ASU Staff, and the Citizens of Phoenix: It seems for every success that Phoenix can point to as ASU’s benefit to the downtown’s vitality, there also seem glaring and obvious deficiencies. The decision to purchase and raze an existing historic structure, the Sahara/Ramada Hotel, and replace … Read more
Viewpoint: Why preserve a mid-century downtown Phoenix motel?
[Source: Rachel Dawn Luptak] — The historically relevant Sahara Motor Inn has an entire city block’s worth of eight possible retail spaces, café/bar, enough commercial kitchen space to accommodate additional dining and lounge facilities, gift shop, two large terrace suites for hosting meetings and parties, 175 guest rooms, and two apartment penthouses. One of these … Read more
This week on CenPhoTV (March 12, 2010)
This week on cenphotv, the alwun house ushers in spring, the downtown voices coalition meets, another sidewalk sale on roosevelt row, the aloha festival, and a discussion about ansel adams led by his former assistant.
MPAC board votes to ‘wind down’ organization in flagging economy
[Source: MPAC, Flinn Foundation, Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust] – Confronted with difficult economic times, for itself and the arts and culture organizations it was formed to support, the Metro Phoenix Partnership for Arts and Culture (MPAC) board of directors has voted to cease the nonprofit organization’s staffing and programmatic operations. MPAC will support the … Read more
Wisconsin firm buys troubled midtown Phoenix project
[Source: Milwaukee Business Journal] – Main Street Ingredients, a La Crosse company that manufactures and distributes food-processing ingredients, has been selected to buy the “opulent” Chateaux on Central brownstone project in Phoenix for $7 million. The unfinished residential development at the northwest corner of Central Avenue and Palm Lane has been financially troubled since construction … Read more
