Have you ever eagerly awaited the arrival of a new product coming to town? You may have speculated what spurred the timing. The response from Uber Technologies, Inc. about the mid-September debut of its private car and driver service was: “Why not Flagstaff and why not now?” The answer is the firm’s sophisticated location-based mobile […]
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Buffalo Wild Wings Employee Taking Flight
Carlos Romaniz will tell you Buffalo Wild Wings is a great place to work, but this Prescott Valley 18-year-old could never have imagined he’d also be telling you it’s a great place to launch a career…as a pilot. By all accounts, Romaniz is no ordinary employee. “He’s probably one of the hardest workers I’ve ever […]
Holiday Light Parade
Dec 13, 2014. 6:00-7:30 PM at Historic Downtown Flagstaff. Put on by Vora Financial/Flagstaff Chamber
Summit Spas Creating an Escape at Home
Summit Spas & Billiards is the reincarnation of a couple of old-time hot tub stores. First, there was Mountain Home and High Country Styles. Jeff Waldheim, owner of Summit, got his basic training in spas at Mountain Home. “Basically, Mountain Home was a hot tub and game room shop,” Waldheim said. “The location was really […]
Keri Nicole Chartrand
Flagstaff artist Kari Nicole Pollard is beginning a new venture as an independent art curator. She founded the Naked Arts Collective and is currently booking art exhibits for two local Flagstaff venues. Keri is looking for more businesses that are in need of an experienced coordinator to book their monthly arts shows, while boosting their […]
Hoa Truong Shares His Dream
For Hoa Truong, a former computer engineer, following his heart and his passion was one of the scariest – yet rewarding – things he has ever done. Just a few months ago, Truong left his job as an engineer at Hewlett-Packard in Houston. Now, you can find him cooking up a storm in downtown Flagstaff […]
Sedona Broadening Dark-Sky Efforts
Long before Percival Lowell decided Northern Arizona’s dark skies were worth his infusion of Eastern investment dollars, the region’s star-filled, Milky Way-laden clear evenings awed gazers, be they Native peoples, Spanish conquistadors, or pioneer settlers. When larger settlements rose, awareness of natural resources including the valuable nighttime opaqueness gained momentum, led by the region’s world-class […]
Navajo Language App Released
Last month, over 1.82K downloads of the Diné Bizaad app were made within the first 11 days of the application’s release on iTunes. The app, which functions like a Navajo language dictionary, was developed by Native Innovations, a Northern Arizona company. The company, headquartered in Flagstaff, collaborated with Navajo speakers across Arizona and New Mexico […]
Available Commercial Properties in Flagstaff
There is a lot of commercial space available in Flagstaff; one might even call it a glut. That commercial real estate inventory includes both office space and potential retail locations. Simply by drawing a long rectangle on a Flagstaff map – with approximate boundaries starting downtown with North San Francisco Street, up to Columbus Avenue, […]
