Daily Archives: August 31, 2010
Dining tips for ASU downtown Phoenix students (and the rest of you too!)
While this article is focused on downtown ASU students, the tips are relevant for anybody who lives, works and/or plays in downtown Phoenix.
[Source: Kelly Green, New Times Chow Bella]
Downtown Phoenix has come a long way in a short period of time. Anyone who’s been around longer than an ASU freshman can tell you that. But the dining scene for students still leaves a bit to be desired. Here are our tips for feeding yourself, these first few weeks of school.
Source: Kelly Green, Phoenix New Times
1. Become a Coupon Clipper Printer
Little known fact: downtownphoenix.com has tons of special deals and coupons on local restaurants and businesses, just select the option from the “What to do” tab and print away.
2. Be Picky About Your On-Campus Eating
There are two restaurants in the bottom of the Cronkite School at 555 N. Central Avenue: Subway and El Portal. Subway is good for a few meals, then all of the sudden one day you walk in and never want to smell that bread again. And El Portal has earned quite a reputation locally for its health inspections, which you might want to check out here.
Our pick for an on campus meal?
ASU’s Taylor Place (120 East Taylor Street) offers lunch and dinner to everyone, not just students or dorm residents. A little more than $8 will get you an hour of bottomless food and drinks at the buffet-style cafeteria, which has offers a pizza station, salad and fruit bars, pastries, and made-to-order sandwiches. Sit outside on the patio for less of a rowdy high school cafeteria experience, unless of course, that is your thing.
The places you should be going and our coffee picks, after the jump. Read the rest of this entry
City wins permit to pave over Ramada Inn in downtown Phoenix
[Source: Emily Gersema, in azcentral.com’s Phx Beat]
Photo credit: azcentral.com
Some Phoenix residents believe city officials just won approval to pave paradise and put up a parking lot.
City officials last week at a hearing with a zoning officer won a permit to turn the Second and Taylor streets site of the old Ramada Inn into a parking lot.
Business leaders and residents with the Downtown Voices Coalition want to save the pink-stuccoed property that they believe has historic value. Last week, about a half-dozen coalition members argued unsuccessfully for rejection of the temporary use permit application.
Marilyn Monroe stayed in the hotel, once known as the Sahara Motor Inn, during the filming of “Bus Stop,” which was shown in theaters in 1956.
Opponents can appeal the zoning officer’s decision to the seven-member Board of Adjustment.
However, city officials have said the plans for the old inn are a done deal.
Phoenix officials intend to turn the site over to Arizona State University for a law college building as soon as the university has the funding it needs for construction.
That could take a few years; ASU is waiting for the state to recover from its budget crisis – or a very generous donor.
The five-year permit gives ASU some time to drum up funding. The parking lot would be used for overflow parking by the nearby, city-owned Sheraton Inn at Third and Van Buren streets.
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You can read the DVC’s position on this demolition and parking lot here and here.
