Filed under: ASU, ASU Downtown, City of Phoenix News, Community Meeting, Downtown Development, Downtown Phoenix, Economic Development, Economic Forum, Events, Mayor, Meeting, Phil Gordon, Phoenix, Phoenix Arizona, US - AZ (Phoenix) | Tags: City Council, Planning, Strategic Plan, Strategic Planning, Vision
Public Invited to Downtown Strategic Plan Community Meeting
The city of Phoenix will hold a community meeting to provide residents with a status update on the city’s plan for downtown. A presentation on the “Downtown Strategic Vision and Blueprint for the Future” and Arizona State University’s “Vision for the Downtown Phoenix Campus” will be at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19, at the Phoenix Preparatory Academy, 735 E. Fillmore St.
In December 2004, the mayor and City Council adopted a comprehensive strategy for downtown and identified priorities, including making downtown an anchor for the knowledge economy; providing diverse quality housing; providing an eclectic mix of people, spaces and uses; expanding diversity of artistic and cultural opportunities; fostering retail establishments; creating well-defined and well-designed public spaces while protecting historic treasures; and supporting a sense of place that connects the existing urban fabric with infrastructure. The presentation will provide an update on the implementation of the goals as identified in the report.
The ASU “Vision for the Downtown Phoenix Campus” will include an update on the implementation of Phase One of campus development. The campus opened in August with more than 4,000 students and the future build-out of the campus is expected to serve up to 15,000 students by 2008.
For more information, visit phoenix.gov/downtown or call 602-534-7143.
Filed under: City of Mesa, City of Phoenix News, Mesa | Tags: Conference, Conferences, Planning
City of Mesa to host Arizona Planning Association Conference
The City of Mesa will host the 2006 Arizona Planning Association
Conference, “Building Successful Partnerships,” Sept 27-29. Over 360=
planning professionals have signed up for the three-day event, which will=
kick-off with an opening reception at the Mesa Art Center.
“As planners in Arizona, we work hard everyday on both short-term =
goals and long-term visions to build successful partnerships among variou=
s
groups or stakeholders. In response to this, we are partnering with othe=
r
East Valley cities to offer a well-rounded conference filled with thought=
provoking sessions,” said Vice President, 2006 Arizona Planning
Association Conference, Wahid Alam.
A Pre-Conference Workshop scheduled for Wednesday, Sept will
present an in-depth look at conflict resolution by Lance Decker, author o=
f
the book “Over My Dead Body.” Several other mobile workshops also ar=
e
planned that will showcase successful partnerships in and around Mesa.
For more information on the 2006 Arizona Planning Association
Conference, visit www.azplanning.org.
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