At least 20 new restaurants are coming to downtown Phoenix: Here is what we know about each
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and last updated 2021-05-13 16:11:49-04
PHOENIX â At least 20 new businesses, most of them being restaurants, are under construction and expected to open this year in downtown Phoenix.
That s on top of the bars and restaurants that have already opened downtown, such as Stoop Kid, Hot Daisy Pizza, The Ainsworth, The Yard Milkshake Bar, Tap That! Downtown, Il Bosco Pizza, The Pemberton (Saint Pasta, Dino s Napoletana, Abnormal Beer Co.), Luckys Indoor Outdoor, Character, and Alias.
It also means that there will be more restaurants downtown than before the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, according to an analysis from Downtown Phoenix Inc., an organization that advocates for and promotes downtown businesses.
Death of the Mall: Valley YouTuber captures the pain, nostalgia of dead retail spaces
YouTube channel Retail Archaeology documents the slow demise of malls and strip malls throughout the Valley and across Arizona.
Credit: Erik Pierson via Retail Archaeology on YouTube Author: Caylee Scott Updated: 3:49 AM MST January 28, 2021
PHOENIX Fiesta Mall in Mesa was Erik Pierson’s mall growing up.
He’d meet up with friends there on a hot Saturday afternoon, maybe get into a little bit of trouble (but not too much, of course), enjoy being a kid and all that sweet, free air conditioning.
At some point, though, Pierson stopped going to Fiesta Mall. And then 15 years went by. Out of the blue, a friend of his who had a job delivering office supplies to the mall asked him if he had been there recently.