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Downtown Chandler Sunsets Getting Better Looking
Jim Phipps caught a glimpse of what kind of skyline downtown Chandler has in it’s future during sunset. Even with a low resolution consumer grade camera, the view can be magical.
Definitely getting excited for construction to be complete and the [...]
Sunday Book Review: The Great Reset by Richard Florida
The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity by Richard Florida
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Richard Florida returns to form in this book. He is spot on in his assessments of our current [...]
Posted in Community, Creativity, Education, Sunday Book Review
Tagged creative class, creatives, downtown, economic development, Education, innovation, planning, reading, reset
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Phoenix Urbanites Cry Sprawl Foul, but Remain Most Guilty
A few times recently I have seen/heard Phoenix Urbanites disparage outside cities in derogatory terms using “sprawl” as their verbal assault of choice. Oddly the facts, don’t line up with their dogma.
Let’s look at total population, population density (people per [...]
Posted in AZ, Chandler
Tagged arizona, chandler, Community, downtown, economic development, phoenix
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Chandler Ostrich Festival
The Parade Kicks off this weekend in Downtown! We are excited as this will be right outside of new Gangplank 3.0 building.
The Thorobred Chevrolet Ostrich Festival Parade will kick-off the Ostrich Festival on Saturday morning, March 6th, 2010 at 10:00 [...]
Chandler Mardi Gras Event
Downtown Chandler will be transformed into the “Big Easy” for one magical night on Saturday Feb. 6, as the Downtown Chandler Community Foundation hosts its first Mardi Gras Festival.
The event will include a parade, street festival, strolling musicians, costume contest [...]
Posted in Chandler, Personal
Tagged chandler, di sciacca, downtown, gambling, mardis gras, music, party, san marcos
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Live Music in Downtown Chandler
One of the things we were hoping would happen in moving Gangplank to downtown Chandler and getting the recording studio setup was more live music. The great news is that the process is already well under way. Every weekend you [...]
Art in Unlikely Places / Downtown Revitalization
Revitalizing an area and encouraging urban infill is about more than attracting new business to a location. It really is about building community and getting people involved. One thing I love about downtown Chandler’s effort is that they understand that [...]
Posted in Chandler, Creativity
Tagged art, chandler, Community, downtown, economic development, photography
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Downtown Chandler Events for January
Stupid Monday Movies
Every Monday @ San Tan Brewery (9pm)
Mutants, Freaks, and Nerds tend to inhabit the SanTan Brewery, and that’s just the Staff! Watching bad movies is generally a guilty secret for most people. Anyone who has seen Point Break [...]
11 Months of Phoenix Metro Rail Ridership Data?
I saw RailLife post Metro Rail ridership numbers from Jan 2009 through Nov 2009. I was curious what these numbers looked like graphed out, so I quickly plotted the weekday, saturday and sunday/holiday numbers.
I then wondered what effect temperature may [...]
U of A in Downtown Phoenix.. Does This Smell Funny?
There is a lot of talk about U of A building a new cancer center in downtown Phoenix. There is no denying that this would help fulfill long ago given promises made by the Phoenix Biomedical Campus. I am not [...]
Posted in Education
Tagged arizona, asu, biomedical campus, downtown, economic development, Education, phoenix, politics, uofa
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