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| - This place is surprisingly underutilized and minimally successful, judging from the sometimes sparse crowds and difficulty in keeping businesses afloat. Since it is a part of my downtown Phoenix work environment, I love a chance to visit whether it's for a mid-afternoon coffee or an after-work Happy Hour. This is a quaint oasis in the middle of the "concrete island" of downtown.
Best things I've have ever seen here by sheer chance include: 1) the Hooters girls practicing their hula hoop skills on a perfectly beautiful sunny day (see uploaded photos), and 2) the Halloween Zombie walk that routed some 300 revelers dressed and zombified through the Center. In addition to the recurrent cliché zombies (zombie businessman, zombie bride & groom, zombie cheerleader, etc.), the best costume had to be "sad clown zombie", complete with frownie clownface makeup and a pathetic, anemic little "aroooga" bulb horn.
This is a place where I like to people-watch, soak up the sun, enjoy the green landscaping, and grab a coffee or lunch. A break here has the healing power of 100 stolen moments.
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