The public is invited to attend Downtown Voices Coalition Steering Committee meetings on the second Saturday of every month, beginning at 9:30 a.m., at Roosevelt Commons, 825 N. 6th Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85003. The next meeting will be on November 8, 2008.
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Next Downtown Voices Steering Committee, Nov. 8
August 21, 2008“Town & gown” work together to benefit ASU Downtown Phoenix students
August 18, 2008A two-year effort to create access from local downtown businesses and cultural interests to ASU’s downtown Phoenix campus achieved its first positive step on Wednesday, August 13. A team of volunteers and business owners spent three hours at Roosevelt Commons at a “stuffing party” to make over 1,500 “Welcome Bags” of information and special savings for [...]
How to help ASU downtown Phoenix students, faculty, and staff know what’s downtown
August 8, 2008[Source: Steve Weiss, Downtown Voices Coalition, and Kimber Lanning, Local First Arizona] — ASU Downtown’s Student Affairs Office and City of Phoenix are working with downtown businesses and non-profits to provide information about their organizations via 1,800 “Welcome Wagon” handout bags stuffed with fliers, maps, and coupons. The bags will be provided to incoming ASU students [...]
Up goes downtown Phoenix Civic Space artwork
June 28, 2008Blogger “Downtown Resident” took this amazing photo of Janet Echelman’s public art piece now under construction at the downtown Phoenix Civic Space.
By doing a word search on “Echelman” on this website (upper right), you’ll get a flavor for the artwork’s “ups and downs” of gaining final approval by City leaders. But that’s all water under the [...]
Restoring pieces of Phoenix history (Republic editorial)
June 16, 2008[Source: Arizona Republic, June 16, 2008] – Phoenix, a city once smitten with everything new, is now romancing its older sections as a way to preserve, beautify, and energize. And this time, it’s not just talk. That’s evidenced by a series of actions that implemented a plan to make “adaptive reuse” more common and easier [...]
This Earth Day, remember “green” means preserving, not destroying
April 22, 2008The reuse of existing buildings is one of the highest forms of sustainable design, and here’s a fact sheet from the National Trust for Historic Preservation that can help you convey that message.
One of the priority issues of Downtown Voices Coalition is preservation. Summary recommendations are listed below; more detailed position statement here.
Historic designation proceedings [...]
