Downtown Voices Coalition
Working for a sustainable Phoenix for everyone ~ para todos

[Source: Jahna Berry, Arizona Republic] — Jerry Colangelo, once a titan in downtown Phoenix development, is fading from the inner circle.  Today, he’ll end his nine-year stint leading the Phoenix Community Alliance, a key group of business leaders who have provided behind-the-scenes muscle for many downtown projects.  Those include the $1.4 billion light-rail line, the [...]

[Source: Mike Padgett, Phoenix Business Journal] – Chase Field turns 10 years old at the end of this month, and supporters say the baseball park is a hit in the redevelopment of downtown Phoenix.  Chase Field and the neighboring US Airways Center are considered MVPs in the total economic picture, attracting more than $3 billion [...]

[Source: Jahna Berry, Arizona Republic] — Phoenix City Council members and their top aides may have to tell a court whether they had improper talks with the developer of a proposed $200 million W Hotel project.  Last week, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ordered a trial to sort through conflicting accounts about how the [...]

Recent photographs show the Sun Mercantile Building interior’s original trusses and original central cast-in-place concrete post and beam system.  The proposed project would definitely impact these historical elements, refuting the developer/architect’s claim that “the roof has been replaced.”

[Source: America West Arena website, January 24, 2005] – Ask any fan.  America West Arena has always been rockin’.  And now comes the rollin’.  The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is going “On Tour” and the first stop is at the corner of Jackson and 3rd Streets next door to AWA.  Currently [...]

[Source: UPI] — The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum plans to open a new satellite facility in Arizona early next year, the Arizona Republic said Wednesday.  We are going to bring in special exhibits, said Jim Henke, chief curator of the original museum in Cleveland.  We are going to give people a [...]