The goal of Get Your PHX is to show up, en masse, to support those who pioneer new restaurants, stores, bars and event spaces. We want to provide them a boost as they put their sweat, tears and wealth on the line to make life great downtown. Plus, we want to provide a chance for you to meet others like you, who want to get the most out of Phoenix.

 

Thanks again to Valerie Ramos, Sarah Porter and the fine folks at the Nina Mason Pullium Rio Salado Audubon Center who allowed us to piggy back off their monthly Birds and Beer series. It was a fantastic time and I think the entire crowd (of close to 100 people) feels that they know quite a bit more about owl sex now.

OK. We learned about other things too. But I just enjoyed writing that.

At the November Get Your PHX we get to celebrate a whole list of new beginnings. We will visit the new dog park at Steele Indian School Park, learn about new plans for our largest CenPho public park and hear about how the downtown Margaret T. Hance Park is being re-imagined. 

Our fine sponsors for this event will be Wag n' Wash and Noble Beast. In addition to the food and libations, our sponsors will have goodies for your pooch! Please certain to visit with them when you come. We can't do it without them!

So, we will have three fun and informative presentations for you.

Tom Byrne, Landscape Architect with the Parks and Recreations Deparment, will tell us about the evolution of CenPho's first dog park.

Bryan Flanigan, Indian School Park Manager with the Parks and Recreation Department, will tell us about the history, future and planned renovations to the old Indian School buildings at the park.

Our own Kate Kunberger will give us a presentation on the very newsworthy plans for changes to Margaret T. Hance park, downtown.

We are also proud to announce that long-time park advocate Councilman Tom Simplot will join us for this event, too.

Further, this will be an interactive show and your opinions count.  

The event will be broken in to two parts. We hope that you will join us with your pooch at 5:30 for some playtime at the park. 

At about 6:00, we will begin the program at a ramada directly to the west of the dog park. Feel free to bring your dog over on a leash.

This just in from the desk of my friend Jeannie Bolger, of Nova Home Loans. There were some changes other than weather as of October 1st this year. Get the quick skinny here.

The average days that a house sits on the market is actually going down dramatically this year. That tells you that people are making offers faster and short selling banks are getting answers quicker than last year. Check out my post about using smartphones to sell your home to learn more about the image, below.

You probably know about our up-coming second annual open air holiday market, the Phoestivus market.  You know about it, especially if you are a vendor or own a food truck.

It was such a success last year that we are going to expand to 2 nights this year: December 14th and December 21st. Here is the information for vendors from our planning committee vendor point person, Monika Woolsey.