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Three new cocktail bars are open in downtown Phoenix on Roosevelt Row. Check out the food and drink menus at Ghost Donkey, Khla and Halfway Crooks. Downtown Phoenix welcomes 3 new cocktail hot ...
The best bars and breweries in downtown Phoenix, Gilbert, Litchfield Park and Surprise include Lylo, Baby Boy, Wayward, Pigtails, Sotol and Greenwood.
Center Street in 1908. Central Avenue was originally named Center Street upon Phoenix's founding with the surrounding north–south roads named after Indian tribes. [3] The original Churchill Addition of 1877, covering a small area north of Van Buren Street to what is presently Roosevelt Street, was the first recorded plat showing Central Avenue with its present name. [4]
After Arizona was granted statehood in 1912, the growth of Phoenix exploded from the downtown epicenter. By the 1930s, a modern skyline composed of various commercial buildings began to take shape and Downtown was a dense, compact and pedestrian friendly city characterized by Victorian buildings and ground-floor retail. [5]
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The 240 ft (73 m) steel tower and 40 ft (12 m) antenna on top of the building were erected in 1949 to broadcast Phoenix's first television station, KPHO-TV channel 5, taking the total height of the structure to 488 ft (149 m), making it the tallest structure in Downtown Phoenix. [18] In 1960, KPHO moved to its new transmitter on South Mountain.
Roosevelt/Central Avenue (also known as Arts District or Cathedral) is a light rail station on Valley Metro Rail in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, United States. It is the eleventh stop southbound, and is located on Central Avenue north of Roosevelt, in the Arts District.
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