design, sustainability, urban development
Phoenix Planning Manager Carol Johnson Reveals the Strategy for Downtown and the Light Rail Corridor
Below is my conversation with Carol Johnson, the Planning Manager at the City of Phoenix about what’s next in terms of codes, walkability and making our city more livable on the whole: Blooming Rock: What’s your position in the city? Carol Johnson: My title is Planning Manager. I oversee our long range planning division, that [...]
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Dan Semenchuk’s Photographs Capture the Heyday of Beef Eaters
The Beef Eaters building on 300 W. Camelback is awaiting its new destiny. In its heyday, it was a happening dinner spot in the Valley, complete with a gorgeous bar, lots of comfortable booth seating, a community room, a huge kitchen that could serve several restaurants and a cellar basement. From the outside, it’s difficult [...]
Continue ReadingFeasting on Phoenix: Creating Community over Food and Place
There’s something special about sitting down over a meal and how it brings people together and forms a special bond between them. This is what happens at the Places, Spaces and Faces Community Dinner (PSF) every month. This event started about 6 months ago by some dedicated Phoenix residents who were craving community, Yuri Artibise, [...]
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Kevin Kellogg on Preservation and What Phoenix Could Learn from Boston and San Francisco
Yesterday, I posted part I of my conversation with Phoenix’s Urban Laureate for 2010, Kevin Kellogg. Make sure to check it out if you missed it. Today, let’s continue with part II: Kevin on why historic preservation is important: Obviously I think we should be preserving our historic buildings. It’s a travesty what’s happened so [...]
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Kevin Kellogg, the 2010 Urban Laureate, on the Delights and Challenges of Phoenix
Last week, I had the pleasure of talking with Phoenix’s urban laureate for the year, Kevin Kellogg, about all sorts of things about Phoenix. He’s a native of Arizona, went to ASU’s School of Architecture, later traveled the world for six years, went to Harvard for graduate school and came back to be a faculty [...]
Continue ReadingStitching Together an Urban Experience around the Phoenix Art Museum
Last week I went to the Cezanne exhibit at the Phoenix Art Museum with my friend Sue Weil. We planned to eat dinner at Cheuvront’s beforehand, stop at Giant for coffee and dessert, then head over to the museum, all without a car. This is a perfect example of a walkable node in our city. [...]
Continue Readingcommunity, economy, urban development
Empty Retail Stores: Turning a Plague into Opportunity
From the Phoenix Business Journal article “Retailers vacate 609,692 SF in first half – Phoenix Business Journal” on Tuesday July 13, 2010: Retailers continue to abandon property in the Phoenix area with a net loss of 609,692 square feet, or 0.4 percent of the market’s total space, so far this year, according to CB Richard [...]
Continue ReadingWhy is Walking such an Alien Experience in Phoenix?
Last week my friend Kevin Kellogg, the urban laureate at the Stardust Center, and I needed to find a place that was showing the World Cup semi-final match between the Netherlands and Uruguay. I was, as usual, officing out of Lux Coffee Bar that morning. Kevin suggested we watch the match at George & Dragon [...]
Continue ReadingA Primer on ADA and Why it’s Important to Design
Do you have people in your life with disabilities? I do. My mother, as she has aged, has experienced a considerable decline in her mobility. She often uses a wheelchair and a walker when she is out and about. I sometimes push my mother’s wheelchair when we are out together and whenever I do, I [...]
Continue Reading- Phoenix Planning Manager Carol Johnson Reveals the Strategy for Downtown and the Light Rail Corridor
- Dan Semenchuk’s Photographs Capture the Heyday of Beef Eaters
- Feasting on Phoenix: Creating Community over Food and Place
- Kevin Kellogg on Preservation and What Phoenix Could Learn from Boston and San Francisco
- Kevin Kellogg, the 2010 Urban Laureate, on the Delights and Challenges of Phoenix
- Stitching Together an Urban Experience around the Phoenix Art Museum
- Empty Retail Stores: Turning a Plague into Opportunity
- Why is Walking such an Alien Experience in Phoenix?
- A Primer on ADA and Why it’s Important to Design
- A Conversation with Chris Nieto about his Young Firm, merzproject
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