If Phoenix's vice mayor gets his way, some residents might see a city version of a stimulus check. During Tuesday’s Phoenix City Council meeting, members discussed ways to spend $396 million from the American Rescue Plan. The city expects to get its first $198 million payment from the federal government any day. A second installment of $198 million will come one year later.
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.
Arizona tourism is starting to come back, but full recovery is likely a ways off
While businesses that rely on tourism are still struggling, there are signs of hope in the Arizona tourism industry. Author: Colleen Sikora Updated: 6:32 PM MST May 6, 2021
PHOENIX While restrictions have loosened up in Arizona, tourism and business have not yet bounced back to pre-pandemic levels.
Tourism forecasts aren t expecting the industry to reach 2019 spending levels for several years.
Downtown Phoenix businesses struggling
Even with just a glance at the grill during lunch hour at Paradise Hawaiian BBQ in Downtown Phoenix, you can tell business isn’t the same.
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It s more than just a walk across a stage, and yet it seems to be all about the walk across the stage.
When students and faculty talked about missing out on graduation, they circled around feelings of sadness and loss. So when Arizona State University offered its colleges an opportunity to host in-person ceremonies adhering to COVID-19 safety guidelines faculty jumped at it.
Colleges created plans for hybrid ceremonies, and for some, this was the first time faculty put the ceremony together themselves.
As strange as it is to have a graduation ceremony without the typical coliseum s worth of families and fanatics cheering students across the stage, graduates and faculty still felt emotional and grateful for a chance at sealing their accomplishments in person and giving families watching the livestream from home a reason to cheer.
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The window shade was drawn, giving the artificially lit room a bunkerlike feeling. Outside cameras fed video of an empty porch onto a monitor above a desk, where an 85-year-old man bit glumly into a meaty deli sandwich.