Sign up for “Copper Square Connect,” the Downtown Phoenix Partnership’s weekly e-mail update about events and deals in downtown Phoenix. A new issue of “Copper Square Connect” will arrive each Wednesday, so you’ll have time to plan for upcoming concerts, events, etc. You’ll also find new ideas every week on where to eat, party, and [...]
[Source: Teresa Brice, Local Initiatives Service Corp.] — With the fall 2008 Arizona Town Hall focusing on Arizona’s housing woes, housing advocates are busy compiling background data and information to help bring participants “up to speed” on the issue before the town hall is held. Regarding affordable housing in and around downtown Phoenix, here are [...]
[Source: Lynn Ducey, Phoenix Business Journal, July 8, 2008] — A Valley Metro Light Rail car is expected to make an inaugural appearance in downtown Phoenix on Thursday or Friday, while city officials prepare a Web portal aimed at “all things downtown,” Mayor Phil Gordon said on Tuesday. Gordon made the announcement as part of [...]
The Downtown Phoenix Partnership has created two different maps to help residents and visitors alike to get around downtown. For an interactive map, click here. For a 3D map (PDF), click here.
[Source: Jahna Berry, Arizona Republic, July 2, 2008] — Today, Phoenix is expected to take an important step toward bringing more shade, better-looking buildings and pedestrian-friendly spots to downtown. The City Council will likely approve today a key part of that sweeping effort, which is called the Urban Form project. The final part could go [...]
[Source: Jahna Berry, Arizona Republic, June 18, 2008] — A Phoenix business group plans to stop using the name Copper Square that has branded a 90-block downtown retail-and-office district for eight years. The Downtown Phoenix Partnership is working with Scottsdale’s SHR Perceptual Management on a name that will highlight downtown Phoenix as “Arizona’s cosmopolitan heart,” [...]
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