WELCOME

Outdoor adventures

(hiking, biking, hot air ballooning, etc)

Golf
Shopping Outdoor dining

TRANSPORTATION

METRO Light Rail
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (1) Sky Harbor has many award-winning

restaurants including, Barrio Café, Chelsea’s Kitchen, Cheuvront,
Matt’s Big Breakfast and Modern Burger

Airplanes flying over Phoenix PHX Sky Train
Taxis

DOWNTOWN PHOENIX

Historic Grand Avenue

Eat: Grand Avenue Pizza; Treehouse Bakery Listen: Trunk Space
Drink: The Bikini Lounge (interior lounge shot) See: 9 The Gallery, Frontal Lobe Community Space & Gallery

Do: Rent a Grid Bike

Roosevelt Row

Do: First Fridays Art Walk, festivals in Margaret T. Hance Park (McDowell Mountain Music Festival, Phoenix Jazz Fest, beer/food fests) See: galleries, mural art

Shop: Revolver Records, Made Art Boutique, Black ‘N’ Blue
Listen: The Nash, Lost Leaf
Eat: Short Leash

Meet: Phoenix Pride LGBT Center, MonOrchid

CityScape & Surrounding Blocks

Do: Lucky Strike/Gypsy Bar, Stand Up Live
Listen: Copper Blues, concerts at Talking Stick Arena

Drink: Bitter & Twisted, Blue Hound Kitchen Eat: Arrogant Butcher
Shop: shops at Cityscape

Heritage Square

See: Arizona Science Center, Children’s Museum Meet: Northern Arizona University–
Biomedical Campus (building shot)
Eat: Nobuo at Teeter House

Drink: Rose & Crown
Do: catch a game at Chase Field

Light Rail Corridor

Do: catch a show at Orpheum, Comerica, or Herberger, watch a movie at FilmBar Drink: Hanny’s,
Angel’s Trumpet

Listen: Crescent Ballroom,
Phoenix Symphony
Eat: Pomo, The Vig
Meet: Arizona Latino Arts & Cultural Center, Arizona State University

Warehouse District

Drink: The Duce
Listen: The Pressroom
Shop: Lawless Denium
Eat: Alice Coopers’town
Meet: ASU School of Art, Bentley Projects, The Croft

DINING

Downtown

Matt’s Big Breakfast Phoenix Public Market Café Compass Arizona Room Pizzeria Bianco
Mother Brunch

Phoenix

Vovomeena
The Farm at South Mountain Crudo
Durant’s

Scottsdale

Virtu
FnB
Sugar Bowl

East Valley

Orange Table Tempe Four Peaks Brewery Cartel Coffee Lab Little Miss BBQ

West Valley

Litchfield’s
La Piazza al Forno

North Valley

Binkley’s
Bryan’s Black Mountain BBQ

OFF-SITE VENUES

The Newton Phoenix
Main Event Entertainment Tempe Wrigley Mansion
Corona Ranch
The Duce
The Farm at South Mountain

CONVENTION SERVICES

Events or meetings held at Phoenix area hotels and resorts

Desert Botanical Gardens Frank Lloyd Wright
The Farm at South Mountain

AZ MUST-SEES

90 minutes away:

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Sedona
2 hours away:
Prescott

Jerome
Cottonwood
Flagstaff
3 hours away:
Lake Havasu City
Kartchner Caverns State Park 4 hours away:

Grand Canyon National Park Tombstone
Bisbee

WAYS TO PLAY/SEASONAL ACTIVITIES

Outdoors: Camelback Mountain; Phoenix Mountains Park; Papago Park; Desert Botanical Garden; Tempe Town Lake; South Mountain Park and Preserve; Phoenix Zoo; Wildlife World Zoo & Aquarium

Spas: JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa (Revive Spa); Westin Kierland Resort & Spa (Agave, The Arizona Spa); Omni Scottsdale Resort & Spa at Montelucia (Joya Spa)

Sports: Cactus League; Cardinals; Coyotes; Diamondbacks; Suns; NASCAR; Octane Raceway; Golf throughout the Valley

Events; Festivals: Barrett-Jackson Classic Car Auction; Arizona Concurs d’Elegance; Las Noches de las Luminarias; Waste Management Phoenix Open; P.F. Chang’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Arizona Marathon & 1⁄2 Marathon

Arts & Culture: Pueblo Grande Museum Archaeological Park; Heard Museum; Phoenix Art Museum; Scottsdale ArtWalk; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art; Taliesin West; Rawhide Western Town & Steakhouse

Music & Performances: Musical Instrument Museum; Westgate Entertainment District; Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts; ASU Gammage

Shopping: Historic Downtown Glendale; Melrose District; Old Town Scottsdale;
Mill Avenue; Biltmore Fashion Park; Scottsdale Fashion Square;
Kierland Commons; Scottsdale Quarter

CULTURAL CELEBRATIONS

American Indian influences:

Deer Valley Rock Art Center
Heard Museum (Guild American Indian Art

Show & Sale; Annual Heard Museum World

Championship Hoop Dance Contest) Pueblo Grande Museum and Cultural Park Hispanic influences:
Arizona Latino Arts & Cultural Center Musical Instrument Museum
Cinco de Mayo Celebration
Dia de los Muertos Celebration
Asian American influences
COFCO Chinese Cultural Center
Japanese Friendship Garden
Matsuri Festival
Phoenix Chinese Week
African American influences:
African American Multicultural Museum The Black Theatre Troupe
Annual African Festival
Martin Luther King Celebrations

PHOENIX CONVENTION CENTER

Any shots of the Phoenix Convention Center showing people in the frame, possibly at a convention or meeting, are in high need.