Chairman Keuth and Planning Commission Members:
The Artists Issues Task Force has been working on the Arts, Culture, and Small Business District overlay for over two years now, and we think we have come up with a reasonable and balanced plan that will make it easier for the arts and small business uses to prosper and [...]
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Downtown Voices statement on Arts, Culture, & Small Business Overlay
February 20, 2008Downtown Voices statement on Arts, Culture, & Small Business Overlay
February 11, 2008Dear Planning Commission Chair Keuth:
Downtown Voices Coalition, in a unanimous vote with one abstention, supports the City of Phoenix Planning Department staff recommendations regarding the amendment of the Zoning Ordinance to establish the Arts, Culture, and Small Business Overlay District. This amendment would accomplish three things:
Encourage new and existing small businesses, including arts groups, art-spaces, [...]
Public invited to comment on Arts, Culture, and Small Business Overlay
February 6, 2008For the past two years, an Artist’s Issues Task Force (under the auspices of the city’s Downtown Development Office) has worked to develop an Arts, Culture, and Small Business Overlay in and around downtown Phoenix. The current proposal has gone through an extensive public review process and citizen comments and ideas have been incorporated.
Additional public comment [...]
Arts funding threatened; attend Arts Congress, Feb. 4
February 2, 2008Join hundreds of other advocates from all over the state at the 2008 Arizona Arts Congress, Monday, February 4, 2008, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Senate Lawn, Arizona State Capitol. Meet with legislators and talk about the arts’ positive impact on quality of life, cultural understanding, education, sense of community, and the bottom line contribution to [...]
Unique, vibrant urban spaces blend old and new, like Phoenix’s Bentley Gallery
March 6, 2006The first business to benefit from the City of Phoenix’s New Market Tax Credit program was the Bentley Gallery at 215 E. Grant St. in Phoenix’s historic warehouse district. The gallery owner received a $3 million loan to finance the acquisition of the land and building, as well as pay for capital improvements of the property. [...]
