Phoenix Community Alliance

Calling all PCA Members in the Downtown Phoenix area!🚆📣

Downtown Phoenix Inc. is inviting retail, food and beverage, arts, and service businesses to participate in DTPHX Ride the Rail, a ride-and-redeem program kicking off July 1 and running throughout the month.

In addition to live music performances on the light rail, riders will have the opportunity to unlock exclusive discounts at participating businesses across Downtown Phoenix.

To learn more about this new initiative and how your business can get involved, visit:

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Mark your calendars: PCA Member Ability360 Sports & Fitness Center is hosting a job fair next month, where all job seekers and employers are welcome. Check out the post below to learn more!

Join Ability360 as we host the Empower Job Fair, a free event providing job seekers the opportunity to explore career paths and putting employers into contact with qualified candidates.

All job seekers and employers are welcome!

Link in comments for more information.

It was standing-room-only at today's Central City Planning and Development Committee (CCPD) meeting, a testament to the important work being done to design, shape, and build the future of Greater Downtown Phoenix.

Thank you to our guests, Joshua Bednarek, Planning and Development Director, and Carrie Brown, Interim Arts and Culture Department Director, with the City of Phoenix, for sharing important updates about Shape PHX and the Art in Private Development Ordinance effort.

If you aren't currently a PCA Member and would like to learn more about the initiatives coming out of CCPD, please connect with Member Relations and Events Manager Sophie Christian at [email protected].

We look forward to seeing everyone at the next CCPD meeting on Thursday, August 20, at 11 a.m.

Phoenix Community Alliance and EPAM Global brought together some of the Valley's most impactful leaders this week for an evening that was equal parts inspiring and actionable, and a global technology company with more than 50,000 experts across 30 countries made one thing clear: their next chapter in North America starts right here in Greater Downtown Phoenix.

The confirmation came from Dr. Panch, former Director of the United States National Science Foundation and current University Professor of Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University who stood on the stage at the Herberger Theater Center and said what many of us already feel but rarely hear at that level: Phoenix is one of the most uniquely positioned innovation ecosystems on the planet.

From Dr. Panch's global framework to the on-the-ground insights of panelists like PCA Member Paul Rivers, Chief Innovation Officer for Player 15 Group, the evening made one thing clear: the ingredients for something extraordinary are already here, and the world is starting to take notice. 🌆

Thank you for your collaboration on this amazing event, EPAM!

Calling all PCA Multi-Modal Connectivity Committee Members and transit enthusiasts 📣

The Rio Reimagined Active Transportation Study Team wants to hear from you!

You can provide your feedback on river trail alignments and community connections at the Maricopa Association of Governments' upcoming open house events:

May 19, 2026, 4–7 PM — Tempe/ASU (777 S Novus Pl)
May 20, 2026, 4–7 PM — Avondale (Avondale Visitor & Conference Center)
May 21, 2026, 12–4 PM — Phoenix (Nina Mason Pulliam Rio Salado Audubon Center)

Learn more about the study here:

Home Page - Rio Reimagined Active Transportation Study Participate Your participation is a critical to the success of this Active Transportation Study. Thank you for helping plan the future of active transportation along the river corridor. Survey Interactive Map Big Ideas Active Transportation Priorities Upcoming Community Workshops May 19, 2026 | 4-7p...

Yesterday, six visionaries took the stage at the Herberger Theater Center, and the stories they collectively shared were nothing short of inspiring.

There's something powerful about hearing directly from the people building the city, not just the renderings and the headlines, but the vision, the decisions, and the drive behind each project. That's exactly what yesterday's event delivered.

Our special guests included:

• Jeremy Jacinth, Director of Development, The X Company from The Rosie
• Brendan Morrow, Founder, Drive Development, from Saiya
• Brian Silverstein, Regan Romero and Ryan Abbott with Clayco and LJC Design, from Ray Phoenix
• Deliah Rose, Director of Brand Marketing, from Denū Hotel & Spa
• Rick Naimark, Associate Vice President, Arizona State University, from ASU Health Headquarters
• Kyle Jardine, Vice President, Market Executive, from Wexford Science + Technology

Thank you to everyone who joined us on HTC's impressive Center Stage, to Huss Downtown PHX Brewpub for keeping our guests fueled, to Ace Parking for the complimentary parking, and to Phillips Law Group Foundation for underwriting the event.

Greater Downtown Phoenix's future is bright, and we hope you'll join us to be part of its next decade of construction and storytelling.

Tomorrow, the people building Downtown Phoenix's next decade take the stage, and we want you in the room. 🏙️

Six projects. Six visionaries. One hour. From Arizona State University's $200M Health Headquarters and the next phase of the Phoenix Bioscience Core, to Downtown's most anticipated hotel opening and striking new residential developments reshaping our skyline, this is a lineup that tells the story of where Downtown is headed.

And the setting? Attendees will be seated right on Center Stage at the Herberger Theater Center. 🎭

📅 Tomorrow, May 14 | 11 a.m. Registration | 11:30 a.m. Program
📍 Herberger Theater Center | 222 E. Monroe St.
🍽️ Lunch provided by PCA Member Huss Brewing Company.
🚗 Complimentary parking (thank you to PCA Member Ace Parking) at the Chase Tower Garage with validation.
For those not driving, please consider taking light rail, Lyft, or Waymo!

Register here: https://bit.ly/3QQNVAj

Thank you to Phillips Law Group Foundation for underwriting this event.

We are heartbroken to share the passing of Dick Mallery, a true visionary, a founding member of Phoenix Community Alliance, and one of Downtown Phoenix's most devoted champions.

Over a remarkable 58-year career at Snell & Wilmer, Dick didn't just practice law; he helped build a city. He steered Interstate 10 through Downtown Phoenix, brought the Herberger Theater Center to life, and spent his later years advancing the bioscience industry as chairman of the International Genomics Consortium — work that hit close to home after losing his first wife, Francie, to cancer.

As a founding member of PCA, Dick helped lay the groundwork for the organization we are today, and his fingerprints remain on so much of what makes Downtown Phoenix extraordinary.

As former Mayor Paul Johnson said, "I've never met a person who cared more about Phoenix and Downtown than him."

That care was his defining quality. As Matt Feeney of Snell & Wilmer reflected, "Our city and our state are certainly immeasurably better for having him."

His vision, tenacity, and love for this community will continue to inspire the work we do every day. Thank you, Dick.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3QUq7M4

'Visionary' Phoenix leader and attorney Dick Mallery dies at 88 Dick Mallery was behind the Herberger Theater Center, helped save America West Airlines and helped found Valley Leadership, among other actions.