Jan 2015 Get Your PHX – Fair Trade Bike Sharing?
Thank you all for an amazing 2015 Phoestivus. We had about 3,000 people visit each night. The early numbers suggest that our vendors sold about $90,0000 worth of goods. That’s an incredible support for locally-owned businesses.
A special thanks to our sponsors, CenPho.com, Co+Hoots, Core Crossfit, Downtown Phoenix Partnership, SRP, Ruby Ride, Local First Arizona, New Times, Oasis on Grand, Public Market Cafe, Blue Sky Airport Parking, Roosevelt Row, Bookman’s, SunBelt Rentals, Yelp, Best in Show, Phoenix Ale Brewery and, you know, me –Ken Clark, HomeSmart Realtor.
Get Your PHX is kicking off 2015 by celebrating not one but two fantastic concepts to arrive at Civic Space Park: Fair Trade Community Kitchen & Grid Bike Share.
So, on to the January, 2015 Get Your PHX event. Fair Trade Café owner, Stephanie Vasquez, along with her long-time friend and fellow foodie, Ingrid Hirtz, are taking vegan and vegetarian cuisine to the next level at their new Community Kitchen concept.
“My Community Kitchen focuses on organic vegetarian cuisine. This is very important to me for many reasons. I believe that it is far too difficult to find conscientious food options affordably,” Stephanie says.
And with such close proximity to the ASU campus, Stephanie felt she should be doing more to provide good food to developing minds, adding, “… It is partially my responsibility to provide healthy delicious options to our future leaders.”
Along with a plentiful menu throughout the week, Fair Trade Community Kitchen offers a ‘pay-as-you-can’ weekly family style dinner every Sunday where meals are donation-based intended to make nutritious meals more accessible to all.
“Basically, we offer family style dining which previews that week’s take out menu prepared by Ingrid who owns and operates Your Community Cook in addition to the ‘pay as you can’ program.”
Civic Space Park also recently installed Grid Bike Share, the newest concept to hit downtown Phoenix.
Ladies, break out your pedal pushers!
The share program is simple: Pay hourly, monthly or annually and ride as much as you’d like. Grid Bike members also receive special benefits such as collecting reward points for locking up outside certain locations, which can then be redeemed at participating businesses.
And riders aren’t the only ones that benefit – businesses earn more too! Researchers found Nice Ride Minnesota users, a bike share in Minneapolis, “spent an extra $150,000 at local businesses near the bike share station.”
Now that’s a lot of dough!
As a special treat, you just might get your chance to test out the new neon green cruisers for yourself because Grid Bikes has generously donated a one-year membership to our raffle, valued at $79!
You won’t want to miss this month’s Get Your PHX pick as we check out Grid Bike Share and enjoy fresh and delicious samples from Fair Trade Community Kitchen.
Please remember, this is NOT at the Fair Trade on Roosevelt.
Where: Fair Trade Community Kitchen (at Civic Space Park): 424 N. Central Ave. (Map it)
When: Thursday, January 22nd, 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
