Tempe Planning $349M in Bond Requests

By Paulina Pineda for The Arizona Republic  Tempe likely will ask voters to approve a $349M bond issue to pay for dozens of capital projects in the next five years, ranging from road improvements to park upgrades.  The city weighed asking voters for about half the proposed bond amount — $174M— to help pay for projects planned in […]

PHX Advances Hance Park Revitalization

By Jessica Boehm for The Arizona Republic Phoenix is inching closer to a grand revamp of Margaret T. Hance Park, which sits atop Interstate 10’s Deck Park Tunnel in downtown Phoenix. Hance Park is home to Burton Barr Library, the Japanese Friendship Garden, the Irish Cultural Center and McClelland Irish Library, and the Phoenix Center for the […]

Vision Detailed for The Farm at Los Olivos

By Dominic Armato for The Arizona Republic Food is universal. Everybody eats. But to Matthew Moore and Aric Mei, something vital to the human experience is being lost in America’s urban centers. “There deserves to be a place in the middle of a very large, dense, urban sprawl where you can take family, take friends, take […]

Hance Park Moves Toward $118M Makeover

By Brenna Goth for The Arizona Republic As downtown Phoenix’s biggest park prepares for its national debut hosting NCAA March Madness fan events, advocates of a $118M redevelopment plan for the green space are shifting focus from creating a vision to finding money to execute it. City and community leaders are closer to implementing new plans […]