At least 20 new restaurants are coming to downtown Phoenix: Here is what we know about each
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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.
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Montgomery: The state is preparing to execute an inmate by lethal injection in what would be Alabama’s first death sentence carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic. Willie B. Smith III, 51, is scheduled to be put to death Thursday at a south Alabama prison for the 1991 shotgun slaying of Sharma Ruth Johnson. U.S. District Judge Austin Huffaker Jr. on Tuesday denied Smith’s lawyers’ request for a stay. The Alabama Supreme Court ruled the execution could go forward with precautions. Smith’s attorneys have sought a stay arguing that the pandemic and the prohibition on in-person prison visits had made it difficult for them to adequately represent him. They said Smith has been unable to receive the number of in-person visits from attorneys, friends and a pastor that death row inmates normally do before their date in the execution chamber. Attorneys also argued the execution would be a super-spreader event. Some COVID-19 cases have
Arizona lawmakers move to make to-go cocktails permanent by Cole Lauterbach, The Center Square | February 05, 2021 10:00 AM Print this article
A policy change brought about during the pandemic to help ailing restaurants and bars could soon become permanent in Arizona.
State Rep. Jeff Weninger, R-Gilbert, introduced
House Bill 2773 Tuesday. If enacted, it would allow restaurants and bars to sell mixed alcoholic drinks to-go.
The proposal drew praise from local businesses.
“Over the past year the hospitality industry has endured incredible challenges, but one of the bright spots that has emerged is our customers’ embrace of cocktails to-go,” said Matt Fulton, owner of Pigstail and the Whining Pig in Phoenix. “As the industry moves from survival to recovery, cocktails to-go will play a vital role in ensuring Arizona’s place as a culinary and hospitality leader.”
If passed, bars and restaurants will be allowed to sell cocktails to go, helping them earn much-needed money as they are still restricted to occupancy limits during the COVID-19 pandemic.