Tempe, Arizona Tempe is home of Arizona State University, the Sun Devils. This city is in an ideal location, located 10 minutes to Sky Harbor Airport, and 15 minutes to downtown Phoenix or Scottsdale. Tempe is also the most accessible city in the entire Phoenix metro area with access from the Loop 101, 202, US 60, I-10 and the Hohokam Expressway. Tempe is the place to live, work and play. The City of Tempe offers an area rich in cultural attractions, vibrant downtown, festivals, sporting events, shopping opportunities, Tempe Town Lake, Papago Park and of course Arizona State University. Some of the events and locations that can be enjoyed by locals and visitors include: concerts and plays at Gammage Auditorium (designed by Frank Lloyd Wright), The Improv, the Marquee Theater, The Mill Avenue District, Tempe Town Lake, the Tempe Arts & Craft Fair, Arizona Mills Mall, the IMAX Theater, IKEA Home Furnishing store, The California Angels spring training  facility, and all of the ASU sports programs. Congratulations to the 2008 Women’s softball team for winning the Women’s College World Series. Tempe Town Lake is a 220 acres urban playground. Around the lake, in a few locations, new urban condos and flats are being built with wonderful views of the lake, Camelback Mountain, the Buttes or the McDowell Mountains. Activities around the lake are: boating, hiking, biking, kayaking, fishing, rowing and people watching. Many activities and festivals are held at the lake each year, such as, the Oktober Fest, Fourth of July celebration, Christmas Parade of Lights, New Years Eve celebration, P.F. Chang’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Arizona Marathon and the Ironman Arizona triathlon, to name a few. After a day of shopping and fun, Tempe has some of the best restaurants in the valley with a wide variety of cuisines. Some you might want to try are: Monti’s La Case Vieja, P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Café Boa, Rula Bula Irish Pub, Café Lalibela, Blue Nile Café and Efes Turkish Cuisine, to name only a few.  The City of Tempe has seen great changes during the past 20 years, new and developing industrial parks, and planned communities have developed a great deal in an effort to keep pace with the influx of high-tech industry, financial, insurance, athletic, academic, cultural and tourism operations. Tempe is home to two Fortune 500 companies, US Airways and Insight Enterprises.
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