The new Tucson Farmers’ Market at Maynards, every Saturday. photo: David Olsen
Construction of UniSource Energy’s new corporate headquarters at 88 E. Broadway Blvd. is nearly complete. Employees will begin moving into the building early this month, and the building will be finished and fully occupied by the end of the month.
The nine story building will provide 170,000 square feet of office space for more than 500 people working for Tucson Electric Power, UniSource Energy’s principal subsidiary. It includes 11,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space, a state-of-the-art conference center, on-site parking and a long list of environmentally responsible features.
The new weekly Tucson Farmers’ Market at Maynards launched in October to a very warm reception. The market features offerings from 20 vendors who sell naturally grown produce, fresh baked goods, grass-fed beef, salmon, tamales, botanicals, tea, coffee, tortillas, native Southwestern foods, and lots more. Maynard’s Market itself also has ready-made foods on hand.
The farmers’ market is every Saturday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., downtown at The Depot (400 E. Toole Ave.), next to Maynard’s Kitchen and across the street from local landmark Hotel Congress.
In conjunction with the Farmers’ Market, Maynard’s Chef Addam will prepare a family-style Sunday dinner with fresh ingredients personally selected at the Saturday Farmers’ Market. Seating for up to 16 people is every Sunday at 5pm. Advanced reservations are recommended, 545-0577.
Free parking! Main Gate Square & UA Parking & Transportation are currently piloting an evening validation program just off of University Blvd in the Tyndall Garage. Validation will be in place Monday-Friday from 5 p.m. to midnight. Saturdays & Sundays the garages are already free (except football Saturdays).
All merchants, restaurants & cafes at Main Gate Square will validate with a purchase. If you are attending UA Presents or other events on campus and the Tyndall lot is pay in advance, customers just need to mention that they will be dining or shopping at a Main Gate location and will receive a ticket that a Main Gate Merchant will validate.
“We have great and diverse restaurants, amazing gift & apparel stores & salons that are open in the evening. Offering free parking in the Tyndall garage is a good way to introduce the new offerings to locals, “ said Jane McCollum, General Manager.
The Tyndall Garage is located on 4th Street between Tyndall & Euclid.
The ladies of Preen ended their affair with retail last month in order to focus on their true loves: repairing, designing, and re-working clothing. Enter: new sewing studio. Moving from the storefront at 210 N. 4th Ave., Erin Bradley and Emilie Marchand are now in an intimate studio behind their previous retail space. The ladies are looking forward to being able to spend more quality time working with and focusing solely on their customers. 115 N. Hoff Ave. #101. By appointment only, email preentucson@gmail.com.
Last month, The Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation in partnership with Santa Theresa Tile Works and the Downtown Tucson Partnership organized a three day workshop October 7-9 to restore the 1927 tiles on the Chicago Music Store building.
There were 15 participants from Tucson, Silver City, St. David and as far away as Austin who worked to removed 50 years of paint and dirt, exposing the 1920s yellow and black ceramic tiles.
(image below courtesy Demion Clinco)
Over the years the tiles were painted, first gray, then green and finally red. The team striped, cleaned, re-grouted and replaced these architectural treasures and brought back a rich historic color palette to Congress Street.
After 18 years of serving the community, Old Pueblo Trolley’s operation of historic streetcars was suspended at the end of October until construction of the modern streetcar project is expected to be finished in 2013. Initial project work will provide an improved drainage system on 7th Street and 8th street necessitating removal of the track and overhead electric conductor. This work is scheduled to be followed by replacement of the single existing track and overhead on 4th Avenue and University Blvd. with new double track and overhead electric supply system.
