A 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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘First Friday’
Another marketing plan for downtown in the works
May 9, 2008[Source: Jahna Berry, Arizona Republic] – Mayor Phil Gordon and a coalition of community groups want to do a better job promoting downtown Phoenix’s hidden jewels — restaurants, shops, art events, and other offerings. On Thursday, the mayor announced a new marketing push that would create a central Web site for downtown events, tree plantings, [...]
First Friday vendors can expect inspectors
May 1, 2008[Source: Sadie Jo Smokey, Arizona Republic] — Neighborhood Services Department inspectors will attend First Friday in downtown Phoenix on Friday to ensure compliance of city vending ordinances. Several inspectors will roam Grand Avenue, Roosevelt Street between Central Avenue and Seventh Street and nearby streets during the a monthly art walk of galleries and performance spaces. [...]
Phoenix will enforce ban on sidewalk sales
March 6, 2008[Source: Sadie Jo Smokey, Arizona Republic] — Phoenix officials are planning a move that will mean big changes to the look and feel of downtown’s monthly First Friday arts events. The gatherings originated in galleries with new exhibitions, music, wine and finger food. But, along revitalized Roosevelt Street, they spill out onto sidewalks and empty [...]
Invite a non-Phoenician to Art Detour, March 8-9
March 2, 2008Art Link, Inc., is one of the oldest artist-run, all volunteer arts organizations in downtown Phoenix. Since 1989, it has organized Phoenix’s biggest annual artwalk, Art Detour. This year’s facts and figures:
What: Free self-guided tour of 60 downtown Phoenix galleries and studios.
When: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, March 8, and Noon to 6 p.m. [...]
Downtown arts thrive in shadow of potential development
March 2, 2008[Source: Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic] — In 1989, Phoenix looked more like an urban wasteland than the beating heart of a growing metropolis. Back then, Art Detour was all too apt a name for a trek into downtown to visit galleries and studios. An Arizona Republic report called the five-hour self-guided tour, with 18 stops, [...]
