The Tempe Gateway building in the Mill Avenue District is set to become home to the Valley’s third Loco Patron Mexican restaurant.

From grandiose redevelopment plans to vacant storefronts - and don't look for a revival anytime soon. But what to do with Tempe's Centerpoint on Mill until then?

The old Harkins Centerpoint theater on Mill Avenue and Seventh Street in Tempe is vacant no more.

Making money on Mill Avenue hasn’t been an easy task lately. It started with a citywide smoking ban at bars and restaurants. Then construction on every major downtown road.

What once looked like a ghost town is now slowly but surely seeing a revival.

Rising rents, a changing customer base and the Fiesta Bowl’s upcoming move to the West Valley are chasing longtime Mill Avenue merchant Duck Soup out of Tempe and out of business.

It’s back! Third Thursdays produced by the Downtown Tempe community, in partnership with the merchants of the Mill Avenue District, is kicking off its first “Third Thursday” event of the year on Oct. 18.

Not so long ago, popular spots on Tempe’s Mill Avenue such as Beeloes, the Gap, Have a Nice Day Cafe and Saki’s were closing in clusters.

The proposed narrowing of Arizona Avenue through downtown Chandler could cut the amount of traffic traveling the roadway each day by up to half.

Downtown Tempe's Mill Avenue was honored Wednesday as one of the nation's Top 10 Great Streets for 2008.

Borders Group said Friday it will close its Mill Avenue store in downtown Tempe, probably in late January, because sales have not met expectations.

At the 40th annual Tempe Festival of the Arts, which runs Friday through Sunday, you’ll come for the crafts — but will you stay for the lifestyle?

You can hardly think of Tempe without picturing Hayden Flour Mill, its faded white silos rising from the base of Hayden Butte and anchoring the north end of Mill Avenue.

Economic woes have slowed growth on Mill Avenue, but that might not be a completely bad thing, declared the woman now responsible for marketing and maintaining that shopping/entertainment district.

Tempe has endorsed plans to build a streetcar line on Mill Avenue - and to figure out how to fund its $3.6 million yearly operating expense.

Work to restore the historic Hayden Flour Mill should start in as little as 10 days, bringing life to an iconic building that’s sat idle since 1997.

You can hardly think of Tempe without picturing Hayden Flour Mill, its faded white silos rising from the base of Hayden Butte and anchoring the north end of Mill Avenue.

Tempe’s civic leaders have struggled for years to restore the historic Hayden Flour Mill and its towering silos, but with no success to date, they’re setting their sights a bit lower.

Since Tempe’s founding, its iconic downtown landmark has been an industrial building that milled grain into flour. Its downtown scene for at least a generation relied largely on college students, bar food and beer. And the neighborhoods around Mill Avenue mostly vanished.

Since Tempe’s founding, its iconic downtown landmark has been an industrial building that milled grain into flour. Its downtown scene for at least a generation relied largely on college students, bar food and beer. And the neighborhoods around Mill Avenue mostly vanished.

The Mill Avenue Merchants Association board has taken drastic steps to save the debt-ridden but popular Tempe Festival of the Arts.

September 3, 2004

A proposed development in Gilbert’s Heritage District may not look like much at first glance.