Phoenix Community Alliance Has Spent 40 Years Working To Create a Stronger Downtown for a Better Phoenix

Meet your new neighbors within Greater Downtown! \ud83c\udfe0 \ud83d\udc6b \n\nThe new PCA Members who have joined since the start of 2025 are among a new type of resident, business owner, and stakeholder in an evolving Downtown who are finding a niche in supporting their neighbor. Many Members' interests overlap, further strengthening the diversity within PCA's membership roster. \n\nRead more from their answers below to see how they're inspired by or want to enrich the Downtown they inhabit! \n\n\ud83d\udc99: Why did you become a Member? \n\n@needtoknowdesign \/ \ud83d\udcd0: We're deeply rooted in Phoenix, and almost all our projects live here. Joining PCA felt like a natural next step. We're constantly inspired by the city's energy and the people shaping it. \n\nKathleen Soldati: [@DowntownPhoenix President + CEO] Devney Majerle invited me to a recent luncheon, which I found to be an impressive and informative presentation about all that's happening Downtown. \n\n\ud83d\udc99: How do you hope to impact and engage with the community? \n\nMuseTease Prints: My focus is on intentional, meaningful engagement. With Centered.PHX, I host immersive events that highlight Black stories, joy, and brilliance. MuseTease Prints transforms those stories into visual art\u2014prints, apparel, and design work that people can hold, wear, and share. \n\n\ud83d\udc99: What attracted you\/your company to Downtown Phoenix? \n\n@pembertonphx: The Pemberton is proudly owned by Jonathon Vento, whose commitment to fostering creativity and community engagement continues to shape the area's cultural landscape. \n\n\ud83d\udcd0: Over the last 5\u201310 years, we've seen a major shift in young businesses like ours opening their doors and breathing new life into the streets. Downtown has that scrappy, soulful spirit that makes it the perfect place to design bold, character-filled spaces that make people feel something. \n\n@michael.rosas__: The energy is infectious; growth and change are happening everywhere you look! As members, we love popping into the Phoenix Art Museum (@phxart) for inspiration. Having all these things we love at our doorstep makes living here special!

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Did you hear the news? Engaging Member presentations are a cornerstone of PCA's Advocacy Committee Meetings this month, and every month!\n \nWith this month's programming centered around the most timely Greater Downtown initiatives, these highlights only scratch the surface of why Members actively engage to connect and advocate for their community.\n \nThere's a Committee for everyone to join, covering arts and culture, education partnerships, housing advancement, and more. The only missing thing is your voice.\n \nConnect with Alex Molina at amolina@dtphx.org to learn how to engage as a potential or active PCA Member.\n \nLearn more about the conversations that our PCA membership facilitated below.

Ready, Set, Go! \ud83c\udfc1 The work of updating the Downtown Strategic Plan begins now! \ud83c\udfd7\ufe0f \n\nLast week, a 21-member Community Partners Working Group, consisting of many PCA Board of Directors, multiple Downtown Phoenix Inc. team Members, Councilmember Kesha Hodge Washington, and Mayor Kate Gallego, convened for the first time to redefine connectivity, commerce, and community in the decade ahead. \n\nMo Stein, PCA's Immediate Past Board Chair, is leading the group's multi-year effort that guides the community vision and development for Greater Downtown Phoenix. \n\nFun Fact: In 2002, PCA fundraised $750,000 to conceptualize an initial plan for sustainable growth in Downtown, which public comment and community discussions further refined.\n\nWhen the visionary City of Phoenix plan was first adopted in 2004, it suggested major Downtown developments to bring people to the core, such as CityScape, a remodeled Phoenix Convention Center, and a Downtown ASU campus, which did not exist yet. Yet, the strategic plan has not been updated to account for those sweeping changes. \n\nKeep your eyes peeled on this space as news about this seismic two-year process unfolds.\n\nThanks to @phxdistrict8 for snapping the photo for posterity.\n\nFeatured PCA Members & Staff: Phoenix Suns\/Player 15 Group, Phoenix Revitalization Corporation, Downtown Phoenix Inc., Wexford Science & Technology, Billy Shields, Fair Trade Cafe), Arizona Diamondbacks, Arizona State University, HKS, Inc., Carol Poore, Ph.D., PCA, Western Alliance Bank, Children's Museum of Phoenix, Dig Studio, and City of Phoenix

The State of Retail in Downtown Phoenix is alive and well! \ud83d\udecd\ufe0f \ud83d\udcb5 \n\nA panel discussion featuring some of

Enjoy the finer things in life, like a good financial plan! \ud83d\udcb5 \n\nBefore Financial Literacy Month concludes in April, we convened Brett Adams, who advises the Downtown Phoenix Inc. and PCA Team's retirement plans through DecisionPoint Financial, to ask him the fundamental questions on everyone's minds.\n\nBecause PCA relies on our Members' knowledge to connect for success, here's a list of financial tips that we hope will further strengthen our alliance! \n\nSwipe for Brett's answers \ud83d\udc48