Posts Tagged ‘Asian American’
January 28, 2006
[Article and photo by Angela Cara Pancrazio, Arizona Republic, Phoenix Section, Page 2] – Former State Rep. Barry Wong is deeply involved in trying to stop developers from building an 11-story condo and mixed-use tower on the top of the Sun Mercantile Building, the last reminder of Phoenix’s lost Chinatown. As chairman of the Save [...]
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Tags: ALERT!, Angela Pancrazio, Asian American, Barry Wong, Downtown Phoenix, Sun Mercantile
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January 21, 2006
U.S. Representative Mike Honda (D-California) visited with 50-some members of the Arizona Asian American Association (AAAA) outside the Sun Mercantile Building on Saturday, January 21, 2006. AAAA President Arif Kazmi (right) and Save SunMerc Coalition Chair Barry Wong (left) welcomed Rep. Honda to Phoenix.
Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, Rep. Honda spoke on [...]
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Tags: ALERT!, Asian American, Barry Wong, Mike Honda, Sun Mercantile
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January 21, 2006
[Source: Angela Cara Pancrazio, Arizona Republic] – If Mary Lum’s Mesa house ever caught fire, she would grab the only thing she cares about: a plastic storage box overflowing with photos and documents, her great-grandmother’s green card and a hand-colored photo of herself with her sister Suzie taken in Hong Kong before they came to [...]
Posted in Arts and Culture, Diversity and Cultural Inclusion, Downtown Vitality, Historic Preservation, Sustainability |
Tags: ALERT!, Angela Pancrazio, Asian American, Bill Scheel, City Council, David Cavazos, Downtown Development Office, Downtown Phoenix, Facadism, Frank Fairbanks, Gold Mountain, Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Preservation Office, Mary Lum, Mike Davis, Phil Gordon, Robert Sarver, Southwest Value Partners, Sun Mercantile
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January 19, 2006
[Source: Syleste Rodriguez, KPNX Channel 12 News] — The fight heats-up over plans for a downtown development. Several groups are fighting to keep the Sun Mercantile building protected from high-rise developers. This civil suit is asking to preserve this site, once home to the only grocery wholesale business in the state. The future of this [...]
Posted in Coordination of Planning, Diversity and Cultural Inclusion, Downtown Vitality, Historic Preservation, Luxury Housing |
Tags: Downtown Phoenix, Warehouse District, City Council, Sun Mercantile, W Hotel, Asian American, Facadism, KPNX, ALERT!, Bill Scheel, Robert Sarver, Phil Gordon, Pearl Tang, Historic Preservation Office, Downtown Development Office, Historic Preservation Commission, David Cavazos, Frank Fairbanks, Michael Curley, Jay DeWitt, Syleste Rodriguez, Southwest Value Partners
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January 2, 2006
KQED Public Radio in San Francisco, CA aired this broadcast on the Sun Merc controversy on Dec. 29, 2005. According to reporter Rene Gutel, Arizona has experienced a large influx of Asian-Americans in the last 15 years. Their numbers have more than doubled since 1990 to about 3% of the state’s population. But there have [...]
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Tags: Asian American, Downtown Phoenix, KQED, Rene Gutel, Sun Mercantile
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December 31, 2005
Phoenix City Council at its December 14, 2005 hearing sided primarily with the real estate developer and ignored most of the pleas of the Chinese- and Asian-American and historic preservation communities to preserve the historic 1920s Chinatown Sun Mercantile Building and set aside 4,500 square feet of space for a history museum. The council allowed [...]
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Tags: ALERT!, Annie White, Arif Kazmi, Arizona Preservation Foundation, Arnold Wo, Asian American, Barry Wong, Bill Scheel, Chantri Sukpon Beck, City Council, David Cavazos, Doris Ong, Downtown Development Office, Downtown Phoenix, Eddie Yue, Eva Li, Facadism, Frank Fairbanks, Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Preservation Office, Jay DeWitt, Jim McPherson, John Tang, Lani Wo, Michael Curley, Mike Davis, Pearl Tang, Robert Sarver, Southwest Value Partners, Sun Mercantile, Thomas Tang, Virginia Chang, W Hotel, Warehouse District
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